Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's YouTube made smaller strides than their social media rivals including TikTok and Reddit at battling harmful content such as hate speech and misinformation during the second half of 2020, a study released on Monday showed.
TikTok is gearing up to make a major play in e-commerce, according to a report published by the Financial Times (FT) on Monday. The hugely popular short-video social media platform owned by China-based ByteDance is aiming to integrate online retail sales and marketing, a developm
Among the underlying components of the Russell 3000 index, we saw noteworthy options trading volume today in Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc (Symbol: SPB), where a total of 3,166 contracts have traded so far, representing approximately 316,600 underlying shares. That amounts to
Europe's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, has warned Apple Inc to give equal treatment to all apps on its platform amid the iPhone maker's privacy changes that have drawn charges of anti-competitive practices from rival Facebook Inc.
Facebook Inc said Monday it will help users find out where and when they can receive the coronavirus vaccine and will expand a list of false health claims it bans from the platform.
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares Russell Top 200 Growth ETF (Symbol: IWY) where we have detected an approximate $96.8 million dollar inflow -- that's a 2.8% increase week ov
Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's YouTube failed to curb hate speech and misinformation last year as the United States struggled with widespread polarization about the presidential election and coronavirus, a study released on Monday showed.
Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp said on Monday its food unit was getting out of the piggery segment, as African swine fever outbreaks take a toll on the industry.
Twitter Inc's refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.
Shares of visual search and media platform Pinterest (NYSE: PINS) popped several percentage points on Friday, following a strong fourth-quarter update. Despite the stock's move higher, there's likely still substantial room for this stock to climb even further over the long haul.H
Shares of Snap (NYSE: SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat, recently slipped after the company followed up its strong fourth-quarter earnings report with mixed guidance for the year ahead.Its revenue rose 62% year over year to $911 million, beating estimates by $56 million and m
It's Saturday night in Jerusalem and a group of protesters dressed in fluorescent pink are preparing to join a weekly demonstration outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence demanding he quit.
Since Wall Street's bear-market tailspin came to an abrupt end on March 23, 2020, the benchmark indexes have been on fire. In particular, the broad-based S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite are higher by a respective 69% and 95% since bottoming out.But if you think these
Don't let its sub-$1 billion market cap fool you: Medical technology company Semler Scientific (OTC: SMLR) is seeing explosive growth thanks to its successful QuantaFlo product and its software for physicians. QuantaFlo is quickly becoming the industry standard for peripheral art
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech, host Dylan Lewis and Motley Fool contributor Brian Feroldi look at what the first quarter's data tell us about the recently public companies JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG), BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), and ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: ZI).To catch full episodes
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) have each innovated their way to the top of the tech industry. This success has brought huge returns to their long-term investors. While both companies should continue to grow, determining which of these tech stocks
Twitter Inc's refusal to comply with an Indian government directive to block more than 250 accounts and posts has put the social media giant at the centre of a political firestorm in one of its key markets.
Facebook is extremely concerned about orders to shut down internet access in Myanmar and called on authorities to unblock access to social media services, an official from the social media company said on Saturday.
A gauge of global equity markets scaled a new record on Friday on investor expectations of further stimulus from Washington and economic revival hopes that also lifted crude oil prices to nearly $60 a barrel.