European Union regulators are making a 'hit list' of up to 20 large internet companies, potentially including Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Alphabet's Google, that will be facing new and tougher rules aimed at curbing their market power, the Financial Times reported.
In this episode of Motley Fool Answers, Alison Southwick is joined by Motley Fool personal finance expert Robert Brokamp and Motley Fool analyst Abi Malin to take a deep dive into IPOs. Robert starts the show with an update on the current state of dividends, Americans' love affa
Five years is a long time, and predicting the future path for a social media giant like Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is fraught with uncertainties as it is with any company.
Whether you've been investing for a few months or multiple decades, it's been a buckle-up-and-hold-on sort of year. We've watched as the S&P 500 set records for the fastest bear market decline in history, as well as the quickest rebound to fresh highs from a bear market low.
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for a major government inquiry into the tight ownership of Australian media by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, securing more than 46,000 signatures on a petition after just two days.
Of far more importance than a stock's valuation is the business's current size relative to its future potential. And with the COVID-19 pandemic reshaping the economy, lots of smaller companies could realize big upsides over the next decade by capitalizing on these disruptions to
An app launched this week in China allows access to some content on Western social media sites long banned domestically such as YouTube, marking the first product by a major Chinese tech firm that helps internet users bypass the Great Firewall.
Microsoft Corp said on Friday it would allow most of its employees to clock in up to half their weekly working hours remotely, providing greater flexibility even after offices start reopening.
Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results, including through violence, as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation.
Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results, including through violence, as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation.
More than 130 countries have agreed on a blueprint to introduce global rules on corporate taxation to be discussed by G20 finance ministers next week, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Friday.
(RTTNews) - Facebook announced #BuyBlack Friday in the US, aiming to celebrate and support small Black-owned businesses and their communities in the upcoming holiday season.
A group of seven major central banks including the U.S. Federal Reserve set out on Friday how a digital currency could look like to help catch up with China's "trail blazing" and leapfrog private projects like Facebook Inc's Libra stablecoin.
China's central bank is issuing 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) worth of digital currency to 50,000 randomly selected consumers in what some see as the country's first public test of the digital yuan payment system.
American teens still love Snap's (NYSE: SNAP) Snapchat more than ByteDance's TikTok and Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Instagram, according to Piper Sandler's (NYSE: PIPR) latest "Taking Stock with Teens" survey, which polled 9,800 U.S. teens regarding their favorite brands.
Earlier this week, the House subcommittee on antitrust reform released a 450-page report after their 16-month investigation into the country's largest technology companies: Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), and Facebook (NASDAQ
Restaurateur Tamir Barelko has had enough. Israel's decision last month to impose a second nationwide lockdown after a resurgence in coronavirus infections has dealt a hammer blow to the economy and the livelihoods of small business owners, Barelko says.