The European Union is weighing a proposal to make technology companies that use the most bandwidth, such as Apple, Netflix, and Alphabet…
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NFL and Google ink 7-year deal to deliver ‘NFL Sunday Ticket’ on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels
The National Football League today announced a multi-year agreement with Google granting YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels…
Here’s what likely killed the Apple – NFL Sunday Ticket deal
Apple has reportedly given up its quest to land exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, a subscription-only package that allows viewers…
After Apple gives up, YouTube becomes frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket
After Apple reportedly gave up its quest, the NFL is in advanced talks to grant YouTube exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, a…
You can now watch YouTube on your Apple Watch
With a new app called WatchTube, Apple Watch users can watch millions of hours of YouTube videos right from their wrists…
Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple to handle their personal data
According to a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted November 4-22, 2021, Americans trust Google and Amazon more than Apple…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy feature had ‘modest impact’ on YouTube, Twitter revenue
Apple Inc.’s ad-tracking changes have had a “modest impact on YouTube’s revenues.” Twitter echoed that description…
President Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet CEOs over being banned from their platforms
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced class action lawsuits against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and…
Woz can’t sue YouTube over Bitcoin scam
Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak wanted to file a lawsuit against YouTube over scam videos that used his image in a bogus Bitcoin …
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ top U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps
YouTube, Tinder, and Disney+ topped U.S. consumer spending for iOS subscription apps in 2020. Worldwide consumer spending grew…
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube found recently hosting racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic music
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Deezer have now removed racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic content from their services…
Woz sues Google’s YouTube over bitcoin scams
Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak says YouTube has for months allowed scammers to use his name and likeness as part of a phony bitcoin giveaway…
YouTube temporarily limits video streaming quality worldwide
Starting today, YouTube will temporarily limit video quality around the world starting Tuesday in an effort to ease internet traffic during…
2019 U.S. subscription app revenue jumped 21% across the top 100 apps
New data from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower indicates U.S. subscription app revenue grew by 21% last year from the $3.8 billion generated by the…
The decade that YouTube changed TV
Taking over TV is quite the coup for a platform that got its start just 15 years ago above a pizzeria in San Mateo, California…
Apple debuts four ASMR videos – see them here
The sound of rain. Crunching leaves. Someone whispering in your ear….
How to download YouTube videos to your Mac
There are several reasons you might want to download videos from YouTube…
The toxic potential of YouTube’s feedback loop
From 2010 to 2011, I worked on YouTube’s artificial intelligence recommendation engine…
Spotify reaches 100 million subscribers worldwide, still losing money
Spotify now has 100 million paying users around the world, the company said…
Apple launches Apple TV channel on YouTube
Over the last few weeks Apple has quietly debuted a new YouTube channel dedicated to one of its services…
Apple is the real winner in Spotify’s battle against paying songwriters more
Streaming giant Spotify, after years of attempting to woo the songwriting community, is now at the front of an effort to pay it less…
Facebook and Google rush to remove live-streamed footage of New Zealand mass murder
acebook and YouTube are working to remove ‘violent footage’ of the New Zealand mass shootings…
Apple shares new iPhone tips videos covering Apple Pay Cash in iMessage, A12 Bionic, and more
Apple has debuted four new videos covering iPhone operation…
Apple shares new iPhone tips videos which cover Face ID, Live Photos, and more
Apple has debuted five new videos covering iPhone operation…
Apple will not appeal songwriter royalty increase, digital music competitors Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon
Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon have teamed up to appeal a controversial ruling by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board…
Disney dethrones Apple in survey of most ‘intimate’ brands
Disney took the crown from Apple, which ranked first in the last three iterations of the study…
YouTube unseats Apple atop ‘Brand Intimacy’ survey of millennials
Apple topped the chart last year in MBLM’s annual Brand Intimacy survey…
Austrian data privacy activist files complaint against Apple, others for failing to fully comply with GDPR
Apple and Amazon are among eight tech firms named in a complaint filed in Austria by non-profit organization noyb…
Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites?
In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced…
Google’s YouTube down worldwide (Update: now back online)
Those trying to access the video streaming site are being met with error messages….
Class action lawsuit accuses Apple, other tech firms of suppressing political content
In the wake of mounting proof that social media giants are illegally restricting free speech of conservatives, and promoting free speech from leftist sources such as CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post and others…
President Trump: ‘I would rather have fake news’ than censorship
President Trump on Tuesday railed against social media censorship…
ACLU: Apple’s ban of Alex Jones and Infowars could set dangerous social media precedent
The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) speech, privacy and technology project, warned Monday that bans against Alex Jones and Infowars…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he ‘fully admit[s]’ Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias…
President Trump blasts social media ‘censorship’
President Donald Trump used Twitter to tear into social media companies Saturday morning…
Twitter bans Alex Jones from posting on Twitter for seven days
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday suspended the far-right talk-show host Alex Jones for violating…
Apple is monitoring Alex Jones’ Infowars app for content violations as it becomes 3rd-most downloaded app this week
The Infowars Official app has become the App Store’s third most-downloaded news app this week…
Alex Jones: Infowars has racked up 5.6 million new subscribers in the past 48 hours
Infowars’ Alex Jones has issued a ‘never surrender’ battle cry to his army…
Tim Cook sends Mark Zuckerberg, YouTube, and Spotify scrambling over Infowars’ Alex Jones
The big tech firms’ decision to ban some of Alex Jones’ and Infowars’ content on the grounds of “hate speech” sets a vague precedent that leaves them vulnerable to accusations of hypocrisy…
Jack Dorsey explains why Twitter isn’t banning Alex Jones and Infowars
In a move to defend his company’s decision to not ban Alex Jones, Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey…
After shooting at YouTube HQ, Google is increasing security at all offices worldwide
On Tuesday, April 3, Nasim Najafi Aghdam approached YouTube’s headquarters in San Diego…
Apple CEO Cook offers ‘sympathy and support’ after YouTube shooter opens fire
Apple CEO Tim Cook has offered condolences aftercrazed YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam…
