Politics
TikTok, Facing a U.S. Ban, Tells Advertisers: We’re Here and Confident
“TikTok is here — we are here,” Khartoon Weiss, the company’s vice president of global business solutions, told a packed warehouse of…
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Culture
Netflix Debuts New Home Screen, Its First Redesign in 12 Years
The most powerful home page in entertainment is about to look a lot different. Beginning next week, Netflix will introduce a new home page…
News
Spotify Paid $100 Million to Podcasters as Creator Wars Heat Up
Spotify has paid more than $100 million to podcast publishers and creators since January, the company told The New York Times’s DealBook.…
Business
Amazon Said to Make a Bid to Buy TikTok in the U.S.
Amazon has put in a last-minute bid to acquire all of TikTok, the popular video app, as it approaches an April deadline to be separated…
Culture
Amazon’s New Movie Strategy Starts With Theaters
Amazon’s movie strategy is finally ready for its close-up. After a decade-long dalliance with big-screen theatrical releases, the giant…
Culture
Netflix’s ‘Electric State’ Is No Hit, but the Streamer Doesn’t Mind
Netflix spent over $275 million to make “The Electric State,” a sci-fi action adventure film starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt and…
Culture
Netflix Scurries to Stem Oscar Fallout From ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scandal
Two weeks ago, Netflix’s chief content officer, Bela Bajaria, strutted across the stage of the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles and crowed…
Business
Who’s Watching What on TV? Who’s to Say?
Last month, the Golden Globes drew 10.1 million viewers. No, wait, maybe 9.3 million. The very same night, “Sunday Night Football”…
News
PlayStation Network Outage Persists, Sony Says
The PlayStation Network, which users of the Sony PlayStation platform rely on to play games, download content and access apps, fluttered…
Politics
Right-Wing Crusade Against USAID Has Been Fueled by Falsehoods
The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International Development paid Ben Stiller, Angelina Jolie and other actors…
Business
Elon Musk, Video Game King? Well, Maybe Not.
On its face, the claim feels improbable: In addition to being the world’s richest man, the chief executive of multiple companies and a key…
Politics
TikTok Ban and Trump Executive Order Lead to Tech Company Dilemma
For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok…
Culture
Netflix Adds 19 Million Subscribers in Final Quarter of 2024
Netflix ended 2024 with 302 million global subscribers and an annual operating income exceeding $10 billion for the first time in the…
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CapCut, a Video-Editing App From ByteDance, Returns for U.S. Users
TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing…
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Instagram Debuts New Video-Editing App, as TikTok Deals With a Ban
For months, Instagram has watched and waited to see what would happen to rival TikTok under a new federal law that would ban the app in…
Politics
Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban
Follow live updates on the Supreme Court ruling against TikTok. On Wednesday afternoon, executives at Meta held a Q&A session with some of…
Business
U.S. Ban of TikTok Is Set to Deal a Major Blow to ByteDance, Its Chinese Owner
The ban of TikTok in the United States is set to create a glaring hole in social media. For ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company in China,…
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On TikTok, Users Thumb Their Noses at Looming Ban
Over the last week, the videos started appearing on TikTok from users across the United States. They all made fun of the same thing: how…
Culture
Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Drop Venu Sports Streaming Service
Venu came. It saw. It did not conquer. Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. said on Friday that their forthcoming sports streaming service — which…
Business
Behind Disney’s Deal to Merge Hulu + Live TV and Fubo
Just a week into 2025, the media industry got its first consequential transaction: The Walt Disney Company is buying 70 percent of Fubo,…
Business
With New Amazon Prime Show ‘On Call,’ Dick Wolf Enters Streaming
Around 2010, Dick Wolf’s vast television empire was suddenly coming undone. First, NBC abruptly canceled his network mainstay, “Law &…