ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
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TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run
if not a billion — before all is said and done. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Dan Diamond / @ddiamond : newsy nugget in @Lucas_Shaw's newsletter: there have been discussions about ...
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam ...
Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and maybe a signal to the judge in Google's antitrust case
Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome — With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser …
Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
and getting new tools for spending it at home Ashley Capoot / CNBC : Perplexity offers to buy Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion Bluesky: Jake / @jake.sooscreek.productions ...
Substack raised a $100M Series C from Chernin Group, a16z, and others, sources say at a $1.1B valuation, as it builds its social network and warms up to ads
Substack, originally a newsletter service, says its app now has millions of users interacting with its creators.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company expects that “in the next few years” AI use “will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today.”
A look at Apple's vision for Apple TV+ and its film business, as Tim Cook says the company's $200M+ bet on “F1 the Movie” is about more than selling iPhones
Apple CEO and Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton join forces on ‘F1 the Movie’ to take the tech giant's film business to new heights
Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down ~50% in three years
Chatbots are replacing Google's traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers — The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Josh Sternberg / @joshsternberg.com : Guess what book I just bought! — www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t... Karl Bode / @karlbode.com : this must be th...
An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected
An arbitrator has instructed the book's author and its publishers to stop publishing the book, though it's unclear how much authority the arbitrator has to do so.
Sources: Amazon Prime Video is in talks with veteran anchor Brian Williams to host a live Election Night special, its first entry into news-related programming
Brian Williams may have found his next TV-news job....except it won't be on traditional TV. — The veteran NBC News …
Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled The Don Lemon Show's partnership with X, hours after taping an interview with Musk on March 8 for the show's debut episode
Fox, ESPN, and WBD announce a new joint venture to launch a streaming sports service in the US in the fall of 2024; each entity will own a third of the JV
The service will be available to ESPN+, Hulu and Max subscribers.
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Lionsgate, and Comcast suspend ads on X, joining other media and tech companies
- Apple has paused its online advertising campaigns on X, formerly Twitter, after owner Elon Musk made antisemitic comments on the platform.
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...
Sources: Apple pauses all its advertising on X after Elon Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic X post and a report that Apple ads ran next to pro-Nazi content
companies are twitchy and once they see others getting out in front of something they race to be next in line and email a reporter they know with the headline https://www.bloomberg...