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Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE: SPOT) explored adding full-length music videos to its app, intensifying rivalry with Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) YouTube and ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok.  The Spotify service has already begun talking to...

Elon Musk’s Twitter finds itself in a cacophony of legal trouble as music firms unleash a $250 million lawsuit, accusing the microblogging site of copyright infringement and demanding $150,000 per work violated.  What Happened: National Music Publishers’ Association has filed a...

TikTok shared plans to launch Pulse Premiere, allowing a privileged group of creators to collect half the revenue from video ads just after their TikTok posts. The new product promises to dole out similar perks for accounts from select publishers, like Cond...

Eric Han, in charge of TikTok's U.S. trust and safety operations for years, will depart in May amid increasing pressure for the U.S. government to ban the popular video-sharing app.  TikTok promoted Han to lead trust and safety at the company's newly walled-off U.S....

TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd is eyeing developers behind virtual-reality software for Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) to bring their apps to its fast-growing Pico headsets. ByteDance has offered some VR developers $15,000 - $25,000 per title, the Wall Street...

Chinese social media company TikTok reportedly eyed two more data centers in Europe, reflecting possible ease over data privacy and regulatory crackdowns. TikTok struggled to resolve global government and regulatory concerns over user privacy, courtesy of its Chinese roots....

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) paid BuzzFeed, Inc (NASDAQ: BZFD) millions of dollars to lure more creators to the social-media giant’s platforms. As part of a deal reached last year worth $10 million, BuzzFeed agreed to help generate creator...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google won a ruling enabling the U.K. High Court to settle a dispute with short-film firm Shorts International Ltd. Shorts International alleged YouTube of trademark infringement by using the word "Short,"...

Republican congressman Mike Gallagher who introduced legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. welcomed the idea of selling the Chinese-owned video-sharing app to an American company. The prominent China critic likely to take on an influential role when the new Congress...

Big Tech groups dumped offices that were part of their European headquarters as macro headwinds halted the sector’s years of rapid expansion. Office values tumbled on both sides of the Atlantic due to rising interest rates, bleak macro outlook, and increased remote-based work, Financial...

Tencent Holding Ltd's (OTC: TCEHY) co-founder Pony Ma expressed frustration about slackening, ignorant, and unscrupulous employees. The usually mild-mannered tycoon helped create China's largest internet firm away from the spotlight, Bloomberg reports.  Last week, Ma summoned...

Amazon.Com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) launched a ByteDance Ltd TikTok-like feature in its app to help customers to buy products from a customized feed of photos and videos.  Amazon launched the feature for select customers and looks to extend it across the U.S. in the coming...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ: META) Facebook says it does not allow content that threatens serious violence.  But when researchers submitted ads threatening to "lynch," "murder," and "execute" election workers around Election Day this year, the company...

Amazon.Com, Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN), owned popular video game live-streaming site Twitch announced changes on the platform to increase safety for its young users after drawing criticism over child predation. Twitch introduced mandatory phone verification requirements and fortified...

Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) YouTube is bringing shopping features to its ByteDance Ltd-owned TikTok-like short-form video service to diversify its revenue stream squeezed by falling ad spending, Reuters reports. Ad sales on YouTube slipped to $7.07 billion in the...