Twitter profits triple as it reaps rewards of crackdown on harmful content April 23, 2019 Shares in Twitter rose more than 16 per cent today after the social media platform posted a threefold increase in first-quarter profits. Read more: Twitter boss Jack Dorsey was paid just $1.40 in 2018 The figures Revenue grew 18 per cent year-on-year to $787m (£605m) in the three months to the end of March. Net [...]
National Enquirer sold to US magazine distributor April 19, 2019 US tabloid newspaper The National Enquirer, which admitted paying hush money to get President Donald Trump elected, has been sold to James Cohen, the chief executive of Hudson Media. The weekly tabloid, which was also accused of allegedly trying to blackmail Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has been sold by American Media Inc (AMI) for a reported [...]
Elon Musk channels a sheep as he and English Rural Life museum swap pictures April 18, 2019 The Museum of English Rural Life has adopted Elon Musk's Twitter display picture, after the Tesla CEO decided to take their sheep image and start answering tweets about Tesla cars with sheep puns. Now visitors to the page of the Museum of English Rural Life will be greeted with Musk's face in a joke that continues [...]
Netflix predicts slowed subscriber growth as price hikes begin to hurt April 17, 2019 Netflix expects its subscriber growth rate to weaken in the coming months, as upcoming US price rises for its TV streaming site dampen the attraction of new users. The firm said it had gained a record number of 9.6m paid subscribers in the three months to March, taking its total up to 148.9m and ahead of [...]
Watchdog plans crackdown over children’s online safety April 15, 2019 Social media giants must limit their collection of personal data from children or face fines of up to £17m, the UK data watchdog has warned. The Information Commissioner’s Office will today open consultation on a code of practice which online platforms such as Facebook and Snap must meet in order to better protect children’s privacy. [...]
Nothing but the truth: Inside Facebook’s UK fact-checking war room April 15, 2019 The war against fake news on social media has been raging since 2016, though it wasn’t until January this year that Facebook decided to take its fight to the British shores. “If this is a war room, I don’t know who the generalissimo would be,” jokes Will Moy, director of the fact-checking charity Full Fact [...]
Boris Johnson breached press rules over inaccurate no-deal Brexit support claim, Ipso finds April 12, 2019 Boris Johnson breached standards guidelines when he claimed that a no-deal Brexit was “by some margin preferred by the British public” to other options, the press regulator today ruled. Read more: CBI expresses 'deep concern' at prospect of Prime Minister Boris Johnson The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) condemned Johnson’s statement in his weekly column [...]
What do we know about Disney’s streaming service? April 12, 2019 Disney is set to take on the might of Netflix and Amazon with a new streaming service – Disney Plus – which it announced last night at its California headquarters in Burbank. Here are six things we know about the new offering from the mouse-branded entertainment behemoth. 1) It launches in North America in November [...]
Entertainment One snaps up Killing Eve score producer Audio Network for £178m April 11, 2019 Media firm Entertainment One has acquired film and TV score production firm Audio Network for £178m as it looks to beef up its music division. Entertainment One has secured a deal to buy 100 per cent of the UK-based company, which has produced scores for films and TV shows including Killing Eve, Bodyguard and Straight [...]
Assange: The Fugitive in Custody April 11, 2019 The decision by the Ecuadorian government to end Julian Assange’s diplomatic immunity and the Australian’s arrest by the Metropolitan Police is not the end of the WikiLeaks saga – but it certainly seems to be the beginning of the end for the man himself. Assange faces a charge of skipping bail, but his extradition for [...]