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U.S. lawmakers extend social media investigation to Meta’s Threads

Sources July 17, 2023

Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, center, and ranking member Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., conduct the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the “Report of Special Counsel John Durham,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, June 21, 2023....

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Meta Threads engagement has dropped off since red-hot debut, tracking firms say

Sources July 13, 2023

What comes up must come down — at least in the case of user engagement on Threads, Meta‘s new Twitter competitor. Last week, the text-based social media platform reported a record 100 million sign-ups...

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Bluesky experiences ‘record-high traffic’ after Elon Musk imposes rate limits on Twitter

Sources July 3, 2023

Jakub Porzycki/ | Nurphoto | Getty Images Twitter competitor Bluesky said it experienced “record-high traffic” Saturday after Elon Musk, Twitter’s executive chairman and CTO, said the site will temporarily limit the number of posts...

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The rise and fall of Skype

Sources July 2, 2023

Skype is not what it was. You may or may not have noticed. The voice, video and messaging app became a hit in the 2000s by letting people talk with friends and family members...

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Ex-Tesla engineer builds Aigen robots to eliminate weeds without pesticides

Sources June 30, 2023

Aigen founders: Rich Wurden (CTO) and Kenny Lee (CEO) Courtesy: Aigen The Aigen Element looks like a drafting table on rugged tires. It drives itself continuously at around two miles per hour over farmland,...

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Google will block Canadian news outlets from search results in the country

Sources June 30, 2023

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a panel at the CEO Summit of the Americas hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on June 09, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Anna Moneymaker | Getty...

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Pokemon Go maker Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels games

Sources June 29, 2023

Pokemon Go players are seen in search of Pokemon and other in game items in Pasadena Playhouse District PG/Bauer-Griffin | GC Images | Getty Images Niantic, a mobile games developer based in San Francisco,...

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Tech IPO drought reaches 18 months despite Nasdaq’s sharp rebound in first half of 2023

Sources June 29, 2023

Karl-Josef Hildenbrand | AFP | Getty Images Car-sharing service Turo filed its IPO prospectus in January 2022. A month earlier, Reddit said it submitted a draft registration for a public offering. Instacart’s confidential paperwork...

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Amazon to soon face big FTC antitrust suit over online marketplace power, report says

Sources June 29, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle on Oct. 5, 2021. David Ryder | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon will soon face a long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit from the Federal Trade...

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Unity shares rise 12% after company announces A.I. marketplace

Sources June 27, 2023

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 summit in San Francisco, Sept. 5, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Unity shares rose 12% Tuesday after the...