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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently announced it will shut down Mixer, its video game streaming platform, nearly four years after acquiring it. Microsoft will merge Mixer's community with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) Gaming.

Since hitting intraday lows on March 23, the Nasdaq Composite index has rebounded and pulled ahead of the S&P 500, but a technical market analysis suggests that the tech-laden index may be vulnerable to a deep retreat.

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google recently launched Keen, a social media platform that offers similar collection and curation features as Pinterest (NYSE: PINS). Instead of pinning interests onto virtual pinboards, Keen's users curate their interest in "keens", an

Since its IPO in 2017, Snap (NYSE: SNAP) has mostly disappointed investors with its user growth. While it has posted strong user growth results in recent quarters, it had to reset expectations early in its life as a publicly traded company, including a dismal 2018, which saw it

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google is the biggest ad platform in the world, and the origin of almost all of the company's $1 trillion in market value.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) acquired Beam way back in 2016, a couple years after Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) had scooped up live-streaming leader Twitch in 2014. Beam was subsequently rebranded as Mixer in 2017 due to global rights issues. Microsoft had been aggressively trying to grow M

Today's change in direction is being fueled by the continued resurgence of the coronavirus that is leading investors to shift their focus back to the current state of the economy

Brazil's central bank effectively suspended a newly-launched system allowing users of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging service to send money via chats, ordering Visa and Mastercard to halt payments and transfers via the system.

HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - As the Covid-19 epidemic began to peak in Asia, Piyush Gupta tried to boost morale for his quarantined workforce. The chief executive of Singaporean bank DBS led his management team through a parody version of Gloria Gaynor’s

Brazil's central bank effectively suspended recently launched Whastsapp digital payments, ruling that Visa and Mastercard must suspend payments and transfers on Facebook's WhatsApp in the country, according to a statement.

Brazil's central bank ruled on Tuesday that Visa and Mastercard must suspend launching payments and transfers on Facebook's WhatsApp in the country, or must cease such operations immediately, according to a statement.

Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus unit announced on Tuesday that it plans to discontinue the Go virtual-reality headset it launched in 2018. Go owners will still be able to use their headsets with compatible software, and bug fixes and security patches will continue to be released

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Ireland and Luxembourg, European headquarters to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, need a substantial boost in resources to deal with data breaches by U.S. tech giants, a European Union report said.

Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) Oculus virtual-reality unit announced on Monday that it had acquired Ready at Dawn, the video game studio responsible for titles including Lone Echo and The Order: 1886. Ready at Dawn has already released three titles for the Oculus VR platform, and its f

The number of companies saying they will boycott placing ads on Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continues to grow after outdoor apparel brand Patagonia said it would pause its marketing campaign on the social networking site for a month.

Snap (NYSE: SNAP) doesn't always want to be a distant fourth-place player to Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Instagram, and Twitter (NYSE: TWTR). It's betting that Minis -- third-party developer apps that will live within Snapchat -- will help it break out. Given the runaway success of a

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) may be facing an unprecedented event this year. Its Google subsidiary could see its advertising revenue decline due to the impact of the novel coronavirus on its biggest advertisers. eMarketer expects its U.S. revenue to drop 5.3% this yea

Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) are two of the world's largest digital advertising platforms. Google owns the world's largest search engine, which processes over 3.5 billion searches daily, while Facebook owns the largest social networ