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Some companies are emphasizing skills tests over educational or professional pedigree when assessing job candidates. → Read More
Instagram’s chief heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday to face lawmakers who are still angry over whistle-blower revelations and unlikely to be mollified by changes billed as making the platform safer for young users. → Read More
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. is re-christening itself Meta, decoupling its corporate identity from the eponymous social network mired in toxic content, and highlighting a shift to an emerging computing platform focused on virtual reality. → Read More
Facebook Inc. is re-christening itself Meta, decoupling its corporate identity from the eponymous social network mired in toxic content, and highlighting a shift to an emerging computing platform focused on virtual reality. → Read More
TikTok, the video-sharing app owned by China’s ByteDance Ltd., said it’s stepping up tools to support users facing mental health issues, including redirecting potentially distressed users to suicide-prevention or eating-disorder resources. → Read More
Snap Inc. reported gains in revenue and users that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as the company’s investments in content and creative tools lured young people and the advertisers trying to reach them. Shares gained. → Read More
(Bloomberg) -- Snap Inc. reported gains in quarterly revenue and daily active users increases that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as investments in content... → Read More
Instagram is experimenting with offering users new ways to promote other people’s content on the photo-sharing network -- a push that could boost engagement but open the door to more viral misinformation. → Read More
The Pentagon scrapped a US$10 billion cloud-computing contract awarded in 2019 to Microsoft Corp. after several years of wrangling between the government and some of the biggest U.S. tech companies over the deal, indicating it plans to divide the work between Microsoft and rival Amazon.com Inc. instead. → Read More
(Bloomberg) -- Antitrust investigators at the U.S. Justice Department have stepped up scrutiny of Google’s digital ad market practices in recent months... → Read More
Antitrust investigators at the U.S. Justice Department have stepped up scrutiny of Google’s digital ad market practices in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter, showing that the Biden administration is actively pursuing a probe that started under former President Donald Trump. → Read More
Facebook Inc.’s Instagram is adding new shopping tools, like letting people search for products using an image, as it expands e-commerce offerings across its family of apps. → Read More
Facebook Inc. plans to start showing advertisements in virtual reality games on its Oculus Quest headset, a push toward turning the expensive hardware business into a moneymaker for the social network. → Read More
Facebook Inc. said it will let all employees work remotely even after the pandemic if their jobs can be done out of an office, but may reduce their pay if they move to a less-expensive area. → Read More
Facebook Inc. extended its suspension of former U.S. President Donald Trump from its social networks for two years, saying he will be reinstated in 2023 only if the risk to public safety has has subsided. → Read More
Facebook Inc.’s Instagram, as well as the company’s main social network, will let users choose whether to hide “likes” on posts, after years of deliberation and testing. → Read More
Donald Trump remains banned from posting on Facebook, the company’s independent content oversight board ruled, permanently exiling the former U.S. president from the largest social network and leaving him without one of his favorite ways to reach supporters and goad opponents. → Read More
An influential racial justice group called on Google to allow independent auditors to investigate the company’s business for potential discriminatory conduct. → Read More
Snap Inc. reported quarterly revenue and daily active users that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by digital advertising campaigns and consumers turning to the company’s Snapchat app for social connection and entertainment during the pandemic. → Read More
Facebook Inc.’s de facto Supreme Court of content is on the verge of ruling on Donald Trump’s return to the world’s largest social network, a closely watched decision that’s likely to be just as consequential for the social media giant as it is for the former U.S. president. → Read More