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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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Dating Apps Are Squeezing a Dwindling User Base

Holding the line against advertising has forced companies to extract more fees out of the remaining subscribers.

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Patent Drop

Snap’s Patent Could Help Advertisers Know What Makes Users Swipe

Snap wants to know what makes you click. But sarcastic teens could thwart the tech in its latest patent.

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Big Tech

2023: The Year in Tech

2023 saw AI live rent-free in all of our heads, plus in an unexpected twist Mark Zuckerberg became the adult in the room.

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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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Reimagining The Daily Upside

Today is one of the most exciting days since we launched: a brand refresh to reflect the next chapter of our company.

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Snap Patent Keeps Data Out of Third-Party Hands

Given that a large part of Snap’s user base is under 18, protecting user data is even more crucial.

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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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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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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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