Naspers affiliate Tencent is planning a major update to its ubiquitous WeChat messaging app to stave off up-and-comer ByteDance and counter the start-up’s growing dominance of short-form video.
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ByteDance is preparing a major push into the mobile arena’s most lucrative market, a realm Tencent Holdings has dominated for over a decade: games.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called for the repeal of section 230, part of a US law that protects internet companies from liability for content their users post online.
Elon Musk’s suggestion for how to fix Twitter? Identify the bots. Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, was asked on Thursday by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey how he would fix the social network.
Twitter is adding another safety control to help curb abuse and harassment on its social network. Users will soon be able to limit the group of people that can reply to their tweets.
WhatsApp will no longer work on a number of smartphones, including those running the Windows Phone operating system, in the new year as support ends on some older handsets.
On its way to amassing more than a billion users, Instagram has become the most powerful force in shaping commerce this side of Amazon.com.
China’s ByteDance created one of the country’s rare global hits with the addictive video app TikTok. Now the US government is threatening that success as officials in Washington warn the service presents a security threat.
The Twitter CEO said in a post last week that he’ll spend three to six months somewhere on the continent next year. But investors have appeared less convinced of the executive’s intentions over the following days.
Facebook is releasing a tool that allows users to transfer their photos directly to Google’s storage service in a bid to give people “control and choice”.