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Big Tech

FTC Says Meta is a Monopoly. But in Which Markets, Exactly?

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Central to the trial is one question: Just who, exactly, are Meta’s competitors? The FTC’s answer may be narrower than you’d expect.

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Big Tech

Meta Faces Lawsuit From 41 States Alleging Harm to Young Users

A sprawling lawsuit alleging Meta intentionally designed Instagram and Facebook with features it knew were harmful to younger users.

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Social Media

Twitter Seeks Out Political Advertisers

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Twitter (or X, pick your poison) is aggressively courting political ads on its platform.

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Technology

So You Want to be an Influencer

Everyone wants a create content on TikTok account, generating millions of dollars, but reality is a harder truth.

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Social Media

TikTok Still Doesn’t Have a Buyer

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We’re now less than one month away from the April 5 sale-or-ban deadline the Trump administration gave TikTok.

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Social Media

Snap Squashes its Nascent AR Enterprise Division

Snap shuttered its ARES unit — that’s Augmented Reality for Enterprise Services — after launching it just a few months ago.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s New Tech Could Go After Pawn Shops

A filing from Snap for a computer vision appraiser may add to the company’s shopping ambitions.

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Social Media

Unpicking The Myth of Social Media Addiction

You’d be forgiven for thinking social media addiction is scientific fact, but there’s no hard evidence it exists. So why is it a thing?

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Social Media

Banks Ready to Offload $3 Billion in Previously Unmoveable X Debt

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Banks expect to get 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. It’s actually not a bad deal, considering where things were just months ago.

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Media & Entertainment

TV is Dead. Long Live TV.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Patent Makes Text-to-Speech Emotional

Snap wants to understand what your texts really mean.

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Patent Drop

Snap Sees 20/20

The eyes really are the windows to the soul, huh?

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Social Media

TikTok Restored Services in the US. Now What?

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After a brief blackout period from late Saturday, TikTok began restoring services to US users on Sunday morning.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Generative AR Patent May Target Developers, Brands

But Meta’s AI may have Snap’s beat “just in sheer volume” of data, one expert said.

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Patent Drop

Meta Patent Could Make AI Both Personalized and Private

Tech like this could keep Meta’s models from prompt attack data slips — or at least give it some “thought leadership brownie points.”

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Patent Drop

Snap Patent Could Use Your Phone to Make AR Glasses Lighter

For any company developing AR, a sleeker, longer-last form factor is the “end goal,” one expert said.

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