Facebook's local servers in Vietnam were taken offline early this year, slowing local traffic to a crawl until it agreed to significantly increase the censorship of "anti-state" posts for local users, two sources at the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
Google said on Tuesday it would stop charging merchants to place products on its Google Shopping search page as it looks to win e-commerce advertising business from Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers, just as they are struggling to supply customers with some items due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Social media giant Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and Latin American e-commerce leader MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) seemingly have little in common. Yet both are investing to expand their commerce capabilities and both see these efforts as an engine for growth.
Investors are once again crowding into a narrow range of technology and internet stocks, heightening concerns that the market's dramatic bounce from last month's lows is becoming increasingly vulnerable to sharp reversals as the coronavirus outbreak continues to batter the economy.
In this episode of Market Foolery, Chris Hill and Motley Fool analyst Ron Gross look at the most recent business headlines. Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT) posts strong results across segments. Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) shares ventilator specs. There is dividend news, there is an update on
The coronavirus crisis has seen millions locked in their homes turn to videoconferencing apps, bringing with it question marks over security and privacy and a new verb - Zoombombing - the practice of uninvited users crashing into conversations.
Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) will have to pay media companies for news they publish on their platforms in Australia.
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Last year, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) assembled a consortium of companies to create an open-source cryptocurrency called Libra. Facebook planned to offer Libra as a payment option in a digital wallet called Calibra, then integrate those payments into Messenger and WhatsApp.
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) introduced an app on Monday that will allow gamers to create and watch video games being played live, a move that will take on industry leader Twitch, owned by Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). It will also place the company into direct competition with Google's Y
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Instagram introduced IGTV in the middle of 2018, and so far it's had a bit of trouble gaining an audience. But the company is pulling out all the stops amid the coronavirus pandemic as user-generated content has flourished.
Since January, Amazon.com's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch has seen average concurrent viewers nearly double from about 1.3 million in January to 2.5 million in April, according to TwitchTracker.
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Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock recently hit an all-time high as the COVID-19 crisis lit a fire under its e-commerce and cloud businesses. However, Mizuho analyst James Lee recently warned investors that Amazon's ad business would likely soften in the challenging macro environmen
Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday it will waive for the next five months the small fee it charges news publishers to decide which ads to show on their online properties.
In the clearest sign yet the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the Internet search giant, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) is reigning in the pace of hiring in 2020.
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