Follow Gadgets 360 - Social, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/gadgets66 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 04:42:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YrNt7ldvKGLcb1naedg1wr Meta may not go ahead in its deal to buy virtual reality content maker Within Unlimited as a judge on Friday released a ruling denying the Federal Trade Commission's request to stop the acquisition. The regulator had concerns that the deal would reduce competition in a new market. A December trial to decide if Meta could go forward with the relatively small deal was s...]]> Sat, 04 Feb 2023 10:55:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YrNt7ldvKGLcb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aBLH-w-7Mu7OT5HJgy6HUf Twitter will start sharing revenue from advertisements with some of its content creators, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Friday. Effective Friday, revenue from ads that appear on a creator's reply threads, will be shared. The user must be a subscriber of Blue Verified, Musk said.]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 19:24:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aBLH-w-7Mu7OT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Y6ZB16Se4ZP3n9ye8UNv30 Tesla shareholders’ lawyer is expected to make closing arguments to a San Francisco jury on Friday in a case claiming Elon Musk falsely tweeted about securing funding to take his electric car company private. A jury of nine will decide whether the tweet artificially inflated Tesla's share price by playing up the status of funding for the deal.]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:31:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Y6ZB16Se4ZP3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aj0X7dbgbx1uzdsCmHakzH India is among the top three nations contributing active users growth for Facebook as of December 31, 2022, social media major Meta said in a regulatory filing. The company has reported a 4 percent increase in worldwide daily active users (DAUs) to 2 billion on average during December 2022 from 1.93 billion during December 2021.]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:27:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aj0X7dbgbx1uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Zjj2blWxB76JVjH6qdYdAk A US Senator on the Senate intelligence committee, asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for iOS and Android respectively, stating that the short video sharing platform poses a threat to national security. TikTok says China's government cannot access the personal data of US citizens or manipulate the app's content, but the app is facing increas...]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:30:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Zjj2blWxB76JVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YaPb_cJQ5-hnn9ye8UNv30 Elon Musk's former chief of staff Sam Teller testified during a Tesla shareholder trial on Wednesday that Elon Musk believed he had a "handshake deal" with representatives from Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund to take the company private. Teller's testimony came on the ninth day of a trial triggered by a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Tesla shareholders ...]]> Thu, 02 Feb 2023 07:56:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YaPb_cJQ5-hnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZjAgU8yeBYY8b1naedg1wr WhatsApp on Wednesday said it banned 36.77 lakh accounts in India in December, marginally lower than the number of accounts it barred in the preceding month. The banned WhatsApp accounts in India include 13.89 lakh accounts which were barred proactively before being flagged by users.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:33:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZjAgU8yeBYY8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aEOfXJF9CpLl1cWWor9YPv The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed WhatsApp to widely publicise its undertaking given to the Centre in 2021 stand its users in India do not have to accept its 2021 privacy policy in order to use it. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice KM Joseph asked WhatsApp to give advertisement in five newspapers to publicise its undertaking given to the government...]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:18:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aEOfXJF9CpLl1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bURIW4qvIKE-T5HJgy6HUf Twitter has begun interest payments on the bank loan that helped finance Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social media platform last year. According to people familiar with the matter, Twitter has made its first interest payment to banks, paying about $300 million last week.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 12:59:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9bURIW4qvIKE-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZwaQg5j9Lclsb1naedg1wr Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have made a comeback with a new social media app that will offer AI-curated personalized news feeds. Artifact is said to be a kind of TikTok for text. Systrom has announced the launch of Artifact via his Twitter handle. The app is currently live for private beta testing.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:35:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZwaQg5j9Lclsb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Y3-1mvpg7ayZVjH6qdYdAk Elon Musk may have caused billions of dollars in damages to investors due to his 2018 tweets declaring he had secured the financing required to take Tesla private. Depending on the verdict, Musk and the electric automaker that he runs could be facing more financial fallout for his unpredictable behavior on the Twitter platform, which he now owns]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 10:54:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Y3-1mvpg7ayZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Ze_5g-4eHVEuzdsCmHakzH Twitter has announced that it is shutting down its CoTweets feature on Tuesday. The microblogging site started testing this feature, which lets two Twitter users co-author a tweet, in July 2022 for selected users across US, Korea, and Canada. However, the feature has now been shut down even before its stable roll out.]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 09:42:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Ze_5g-4eHVEuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Z_-T21CTNCZ-zdsCmHakzH Snap reported on Tuesday that the firm swung to a net loss in Q4 2022 and the parent firm of popular app Snapchat expects revenue to fall by up to 10 percent in the current quarter. The company said that its business continued to be hurt by a weakening economy, increased competition from rivals and "platform policy changes".]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 08:51:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9Z_-T21CTNCZ-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YGy5fLxeYxSezdsCmHakzH TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is set to testify before the US Energy and Commerce Committee in March, the company confirmed on Monday. The US House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking TikTok in the US over national security concerns.]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:49:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YGy5fLxeYxSezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9baNWnk53N0q5s0ohxaO6Yr Facebook has asked a London tribunal to block a mass action lawsuit against the firm that alleges the social media firm monetised users' personal data by abusing its dominant market position. The mass action lawsuit claims users should get compensation for the economic value they would have received if Facebook was not in a dominant position in the market for social n...]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 09:29:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9baNWnk53N0q5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aJntRNjfDucJVjH6qdYdAk Twitter could soon introduce support for a payments feature, and the microblogging service has reportedly begun applying for regulatory licenses. According to a report, Elon Musk is pushing Twitter to create new streams of revenue as it faces a drop in advertising income, following his takeover of the platform last October.]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2023 07:04:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9aJntRNjfDucJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YPm8DskPBeI8b1naedg1wr WhatsApp is reportedly working on the ability to react to messages in community announcement groups. The app is tipped to be working on a feature to allow users to react with emoji without revealing their phone numbers.]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:43:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YPm8DskPBeI8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZKcgh-WdYPCF1cWWor9YPv The DM button on Twitter has reportedly disappeared for many users on both Android and iOS. This means there is no option to send DMs via a profile page. Many users have reported the same via the microblogging site. The “DM” icon usually appears in between Follow and Notification buttons on a user profile.]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:55:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZKcgh-WdYPCF1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZWcDuGjteey5VjH6qdYdAk Former Facebook employee George Hayward has reportedly claimed that the app intentionally drains users’ phone batteries in a practice called negative testing. In a lawsuit filed against Facebook parent firm Meta at a Manhattan Federal Court, Hayward, a data scientist, claims that he was fired from his role for refusing to participate in the aforementioned “harmful...]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 11:35:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9ZWcDuGjteey5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YsldbZllyVZ5s0ohxaO6Yr Elon Musk, who now owns the Twitter service that he deploys as his megaphone, was often a study in contrasts during his roughly eight hours on the stand during the ongoing Tesla tweet trial. The CEO of the electric carmaker is facing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Tesla shareholders after Musk tweeted about a company buyout that didn’t happen.]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 07:15:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/ZgSYYGvGU9YsldbZllyVZ5s0ohxaO6Yr