The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, completes $44bn Twitter takeover, ousting Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s CEO, Ned Segal, finance boss, and Ms. Vijaya Gadde, with immediate effect, according to Twitter investor Ross Gerber, who is the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki. Musk tweeted is interest in the social network platform was not about making money. The social…
Disney CEO Bob Chapek has been one of the most vocal entertainment industry chiefs about the possibilities of Metaverse as a part of the canvas for creatives, which first emerged as a concept in the imagination of science fiction writers. Although everybody seems to be talking about Metaverse, no one can agree on what the…
n Musk is seeking to end his $44bn (£36bn) bid to buy Twitter, alleging multiple breaches of the agreement. Mr. Musk said he backed out because Twitter failed to provide enough information on the number of spam and fake accounts. Twitter says it plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement. Twitter chairman Bret…
Apple, US technology giant, has become the first company to hit a stock market valuation of $3tn ( £2.2tn). Cupertino, California-based Apple whose had been one of the big winners of the pandemic, as coronavirus lockdown prompted a spending spree on gadgets. Their share prices has risen by around 5, 800 per cent since co-founder…
During lockdown Facebook changed direction to virtual reality, saying their communication had been poor, and the internet experienced a few wobbles. WhatsApp’s plans to change its privacy policies to make it easier for people to message businesses faced a backlash as millions downloaded apps from its competitors, worried that the plan would make large amounts…
When a 10-year-old asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”, Alexa challenged her to touch a penny coin to the prongs of a half-inserted live plug. Amazon has since updated its Alexa voice assistant the error as soon as the company became aware of it. The girl’s mother, Kristin Livadhi, described the incident…
Spotify is the latest app following TikTok’s successful design with a vertical video feed, a new feature in an early test build for iPhone reveals a new Discover tab being added to the app’s front page. It has vertical music video clips that users can swipe through rapidly, similar to TikTok’s interface. The feature…
Diane Coyle, distinguished academic economist with Harvard PhD, Cambridge Chair, and professional, ex-UK Treasury, CBE, explores enormous problems but also opportunities and explains how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy – Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools…
Entrepreneur, acclaimed model, actress and global social media phenomenon, Emily Ratajkowski, who has shared her image with the world, at the age of twenty-one, created a furor with her provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. My Body, a collection of 12 essays, offers lucid examination of mirrors in…
BT ‘s EE and Virgin’s O2 are busy building net generation fibre networks across the UK. Both mobile data and broadband from Virgin Media O2 will double the speed of both at no extra charge, while BT is enticing its customers to double up with 10% off broadband deals for EE customers, leaving a squeeze…