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Snap Plays up Augmented Reality in Latin America, Asia Expansion

Snap Inc is speeding up its global expansion in countries from Mexico to Japan through tie-ups with wireless carriers and highlighting its popular augmented reality features, the company told Reuters. The parent company of the Snapchat photo messaging app is leaning on its relative safety during a period when social media platforms such as Meta’s […]

Microsoft Outlook Down in the UAE

On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was struck with its Microsoft Outlook services outage. Several users went to social media platforms to shine a light on the events taking place, complaining that they could not access their emails, either by web or mobile browsers. The Big Tech titan was tagged in almost every post, […]

Nigeria Lifts Twitter Ban from Midnight, Government Official Says

Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements with authorities in the West African country, a senior government official said on Wednesday. The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after it removed a post from President Muhammadu Buhari that […]

Intel removes reference associated with Xinjiang Region

Chipmaker titan Intel has recently removed from an annual letter directed to suppliers information referenced to China’s Xinjiang region following criticism for demanding suppliers to steer clear from the region. Only last month, the U.S.-based company was criticized on social media platforms in China for the letter sent to suppliers – published on the company’s […]

Why Metaverse Property is such a Big Deal to Companies

Metaverse property is basically an NFT. We cover what NFTs are in greater detail here, but essentially, they are unique, blockchain verified lines of code that represent a person’s ownership of something in a given blockchain. Most commonly, the Ethereum blockchain.    Behind the inflammatory headlines, exclamation marks, and the open mouth face clutching YouTube thumbnails, what is […]

Reddit taps Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs for IPO

Social media platform Reddit Inc, whose message boards became central to meme stock trading frenzy in 2021, is tapping Wall Street banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group for its initial public offering, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. Reddit had confidentially filed for an IPO in December and is aiming […]

How Doomscrolling shaped the path of the future

COVID-19 came, and with it came the reshaping of human habits. We went from constantly checking our phones for entertainment purposes to the endless scrolling for news updates, be it pandemic-related, politics, or any kind of news that would deliver a higher clarity to where the world was going. November 19, a date will be […]

Russian court slaps Google, Meta with massive fines

A Moscow court on Friday slapped Google with a nearly $100 million fine and also fined Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law, as Russia seeks to step up pressure on technology giants. The Tagansky District Court ruled that Google repeatedly neglected to remove the banned […]

EU plan for sweeping update of Big Tech rules gains momentum

The European Union’s ambitious plan to update its pioneering internet rules gained momentum Tuesday after a key committee passed measures requiring technology companies to better police content and lawmakers prepared to vote on regulations to rein in Big Tech. The 27-nation bloc has for the past year been drafting a sweeping overhaul of regulations for […]