China over the past decade built an alternate online reality where Google and Facebook barely exist. Now its own largest tech corporations are getting a taste of what a shutout feels like.
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Advertisements for more than 400 brands are due to vanish from Facebook on Wednesday after the failure of last-ditch talks to stop a boycott over hate speech on the site.
Tesla has grown from Silicon Valley gadfly to the world’s second largest automaker by market capitalisation in the decade since its initial public offering. It’s been a roller-coaster ride.
Facebook shares were poised to fall for a second day after more businesses, including Starbucks and Diageo, joined the growing number of brands planning to halt spending on social media.
Sony’s image sensor business aims to replicate PlayStation’s success to address its reliance on a handful of manufacturers in the fickle smartphone market by selling software by subscription for data-analysing sensors.
Mark Zuckerberg just became $7.2-billion poorer after a flurry of companies pulled advertising from Facebook’s network – but he’s still the fourth richest person in the world.
Microsoft said on Friday it would close its retail stores and take a related pretax asset impairment charge of US$450-million in the current quarter.
Two “super-Earths” have been discovered orbiting one of the brightest red dwarf stars in the sky. About half as big as the sun, GJ 887 is just 11 light years away.
Verizon Communications said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.
Amazon.com has agreed to pay over $1-billion to buy self-driving start-up Zoox, according to a report. It would would expand its reach in autonomous vehicle technology.