A few weeks ago an AI-generated podcast named “Joe Rogan interviews Steve Jobs” went viral because of how realistic it sounded. It was an impressive accomplishment, but really just an advanced combination of the various technologies I was already...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority launched an investigation Tuesday into Apple and Google’s control of the mobile browser market.The authority will explore the companies’ “stranglehold” over browsing, as well as Apple’s control over cloud gaming through the App...
Journalists, it turns out, are poor oceanographers.As election returns rolled in on Nov. 8, a slow-motion realization settled in among Americans who had paid even casual attention to political news that a much-talked-about red wave of Republican midterm dominance...
There are many reasons for the dire situation at Meta Platforms Inc. The company, which has lost two-thirds of its market value this year and cut 11,000 jobs on Nov. 9, has been battered by damaging news about the...
Buzzfeed’s share price has continued to slide following its third quarter results last week, which showed time spent with its brands had declined one-third in a year.Buzzfeed Inc’s market capitalisation at market close on Tuesday 22 November was $164m...
Rolling Stone UK’s publisher remains “very much committed” to the magazine despite making redundancies in its small team just over one year after launch.Stream Publishing, which also owns LGBTQ magazine Attitude, signed an exclusive licensing deal with Rolling Stone...
A major outside shareholder in News Corp NWSA +2.80% and Fox Corp. FOX +0.17% opposes a plan by Rupert Murdoch to recombine the companies and wants other alternatives considered, including a breakup of News Corp.Independent Franchise Partners, a London-based...
For the past couple of decades, local news has been struggling everywhere but the problem is particularly visible in the US where large swathes of the country turned into news deserts. These are often poorer, less-wired areas where communities...
More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the social media network in the past two weeks, a Washington Post analysis of marketing data found — an indication of the extent of skittishness among...
But industry experts feared that rising tide might ebb in 2022 as people headed back to work and inflation began to crimp household budgets. Indeed, there have been signs that readership was falling off. In September, the Poynter Institute...
