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This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Apple and a boring experience could crush Truth Social More than a year after Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook parent Meta (FB) ditched Donald Trump, the ex-president is back online with Truth Social. The platform, which opened to the public on Monday, marks Trump’s… Source link

(Reuters) – Rumble Inc, a YouTube-style website popular among U.S. conservatives, has offered Joe Rogan $100 million over four years for all his shows, days after the podcaster apologized for using racial slurs in his content. Rogan is also facing backlash for COVID-19 misinformation in his program hosted on Spotify, after singer-songwriters including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their content from the streaming platform. The incidents prompted Spotify to add a “content advisory” to any… Source link

The two-year anniversary of the deaths of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others saw plenty of tributes, including a physical one at the site of the helicopter crash that rocked the basketball world. A four-foot tall statue of the late Bryants was erected at the site on Wednesday by artist Dan Medina, per TMZ, with the date of the crash and all nine names of the crash victims written on the base of the statue. “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever,” the base reads under the… Source link

LONDON—Google plans to spend $1 billion buying office space it already uses in central London, saying it believes office work will remain vital for the tech giant. The purchase of the site, called Central Saint Giles, near the British Museum, comes as the Alphabet Inc. unit is building a separate, massive new U.K. headquarters about a mile and a half away, next to London’s King’s Cross train station. … Source link

TikTok really was everywhere this year. The app, known for its silly dancing videos, was the world’s most visited site on the internet in 2021, surpassing last year’s leader, Alphabet Inc. GOOG 0.88% ’s Google, according to Cloudflare Inc., NET -0.55% a cloud-infrastructure company that tracks internet traffic.  The app, owned by… Source link

TikTok beat out Google for the most popular domain in 2o21, according to data from web security and performance company Cloudflare’s 2021 Year in Review of internet traffic. Why it matters: Video-sharing platform TikTok rose to massive popularity in 2021. Surpassing mammoths like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Netflix in web traffic shows the speed and power of the ascent. Google and Meta-owned Facebook are well aware of TikTok nipping at their heels, unveiling video-based features like… Source link

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters, who were detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow, Russia September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech firm Yandex (YNDX.O) said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election… Source link

MOSCOW, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Russian tech firm Yandex said on Tuesday it had removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s tactical voting website from its search engine to comply with a government ban ahead of a parliamentary election this month. Navalny and his allies want to use the website and a separate app to organise a tactical voting campaign at the Sept. 17-19 contest to land a blow against the ruling United Russia party. The campaign urges followers to sign up so they can be allocated… Source link

David Gray | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is launching a redesigned repository that attempts to explain how its core business functions. On Monday, Google Search liaison Danny Sullivan noted that the company redesigned a website it first created in 2016. It now has more information and easier navigation, including how Google’s ranking systems sort through hundreds of billions of web pages, Sullivan said. With sections such as “How Search works” and “our approach,” the company attempts to… Source link

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against the novel coronavirus, at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa, June 24, 2020. Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters A Florida family of an unvaccinated man will hold a vaccine and testing site at his funeral. Marquis Davis wanted to get the vaccine after he was hospitalized but it was too late, his wife told WFTV. The family, along with their church, will offer the… Source link