Month: September 2018

Amazon became the second U.S. company to reach a market value of $1 trillion. Apple may have gotten there first, but the iPhone maker should be on notice that its days as the world’s most valuable company are numbered.

The arrest of Chinese billionaire Liu Qiangdong on suspicion of rape followed a group dinner attended by Mr. Liu and the woman who alleges the assault, according to a person familiar with the woman’s account.

The legal and economic case against T-Mobile/Sprint is far stronger than against AT&T/Time Warner. If the Justice Department waves through the deal, questions would be raised about its fealty to antitrust principles.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey will appear in front of a Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday to defend their platforms’ handling of manipulation by foreign actors.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife are making their first major foray into politics with a $10 million contribution to a super PAC that aims to elect military veterans from both parties to Congress.

A total of 74 percent of Facebook users surveyed by Pew Research Center have taken at least one of the following three actions over the past year, in response to the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal: adjusted their privacy settings, taken breaks of several weeks from checking their accounts or deleting the application from their smartphones…

Around half of U.S. adults who use Facebook say they do not understand why certain posts but not others are included in their news feed. Older users are particularly likely to say they do not understand the workings of the news feed.

Just over half of Facebook users have adjusted privacy settings in the past year. Around four-in-ten have taken a break from checking for several weeks or more.

ComScore Inc. has hired Sarah Hofstetter as president, as the company’s new chief executive, Bryan Wiener, works to rejuvenate the troubled media measurement business.

My father has media distraction, and then some. Does this remind you of anyone? Younger people do get distracted as well.