Twitter mulling subscription services and tipping features February 25, 2021 Twitter mulls over introducing new subscription features to provide monetary incentives to influencers
Lady Gaga offers $500,000 reward for stolen dogs, ‘no questions asked’ February 25, 2021 Lady Gaga is offering a $500,000 reward for the return of her two French bulldogs after they were stolen on Wednesday in a night raid in which her dog walker was shot. Lady Gaga’s dog walker Ryan Fischer took the singer’s three pets out for a walk in West Hollywood around 10pm where he was [...]
Soho House mulls $3bn New York listing amid IPO boom February 25, 2021 Private members’ club Soho House is the latest company reportedly mulling a New York listing with a valuation of up to $3bn. Soho House, which operates 27 clubs around the world, first considered a Wall Street listing in 2018. This time round the company has hired JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley and is looking to [...]
Australia passes online news law after row with Facebook February 25, 2021 Australia has passed a landmark law that will force tech giants Facebook and Google to pay publishers for news content. The world-first legislation follows a bitter row with Facebook, which blocked access to news in the country in protest to the changes. Following tense negotiations the law today passed with amendments that will allow the [...]
Gambling giant Flutter taps Vice boss Nancy Dubuc in boardroom shake-up February 25, 2021 Flutter Entertainment has appointed Vice chief executive Nancy Dubuc as a non-executive director as part of a boardroom shake-up aimed at redressing the company’s gender balance. Dubuc, a media industry veteran, has led youth-oriented Vice Media since 2018. Prior to this she was chief executive of A&E Television Networks. Flutter, formerly known as Paddy Power [...]
Reddit website goes down as Gamestop shares jump February 24, 2021 Reddit, the self-titled “front page of the internet”, crashed last night as shares in amateur trader favourite Gamestop climbed once again. The site, which is accessed by millions of people daily, went down at around 9pm on Wednesday. Shortly afterwards Reddit tweeted that it had identified the issue and its systems had recovered. It came [...]
Sunday Sitdown: Time Out boss Julio Bruno on the ‘renaissance’ of cities February 21, 2021 While no one could have predicted the outbreak of coronavirus, few companies have been blighted by worse timing than Time Out. In the face of shrinking revenue from its core events listings business, the media group has spent recent years shifting its focus to a new offering of food and culture markets. But when the [...]
Time Out boss: Tech giants have destroyed internet freedom February 19, 2021 The unbridled power of tech giants such as Google and Facebook has destroyed the concept of freedom on the internet, the chief executive of Time Out has said. In an interview with City A.M., Julio Bruno said that while tech companies had given us “a lot of good things”, they now exerted too much control [...]
Review into Hong Kong’s only independent broadcaster sparks media freedom concerns February 19, 2021 A Hong Kong government review launched today into the city’s only independent broadcaster has sparked concerns over media freedoms in the region. The publicly funded outlet Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) was found to have editorial management “deficiencies” and inadequate transparency of complaints following an unprecedented government-led review. Founded in 1928, the broadcaster is the [...]
Screenshot: Will Facebook regret going nuclear over Australian news? February 19, 2021 This week **Media Moment of the Week: A jumbo jab mix-up **Will Facebook regret going nuclear in Australia? **Arm’s getting chippy Media Moment of the Week: A jumbo jab mix-up When Liam Thorp received a text inviting him for his first Covid jab he was confused, given the healthy 32-year-old is pretty low down the [...]