The global advertising industry is mourning the death of Hong Kong-born Meta Greater China creative chief Kitty Lun Kit-ying, who drowned in a swimming pool at a residential complex earlier this week. A source close to the investigation confirmed on Thursday that Lun was identified as the 70-year-old woman who died after drowning in the…
WhatsApp account hijacking scams in Hong Kong surged by nearly 170 per cent to almost 2,000 cases in the first seven months of this year, with one victim losing as much as HK$12.2 million (US$1.55 million). Police said the 1,993 cases logged from January to July represented a 169.7 per cent increase from the 739…
Hong Kong, a city of overachievers, especially when it comes to the young, is also filled with children who take to social media early. Almost 35 per cent of kindergarten pupils log at least one hour of recreational screen time daily. By the junior forms, 60 per cent exceed the international two-hour daily limit. The…
Meta Platforms is rolling out new Instagram alerts in Hong Kong to notify parents when their teenagers repeatedly search for suicide- or self-harm-related terms within a short period, as part of broader efforts to strengthen parental controls and online safety for young users. The global technology conglomerate said the alerts, which began rolling out to…
Everyone* hates data centers now. How did that happen? There are lots of theories: People are worried about the environment. Or electric bills. Or their jobs. Or imperious Big Tech billionaires ordering them around. All of the above. Also: It’s China’s fault. That last one doesn’t come up in polling. But it’s quite popular on…
China has been cracking down on a practice known as “Singapore-washing,” which is when companies leave the country to take advantage of looser regulations and funding opportunities (GREG BAKER) AI startup Manus said Tuesday it would resume “operating as an independent company,” months after Beijing blocked Meta’s multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based company. Some…
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram have served thousands of ads for AI “nudify” apps in breach of the company’s policies, delivered by one of its few advertising partners in China, according to the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project. Beijing-based GatherOne Inc., which connects Chinese firms seeking to advertise on Meta’s social media services with the…
FILE – Visitors take photos at a sign outside Meta headquarters March 26, 2026, in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File) France’s competition watchdog Wednesday accused Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of causing “serious and immediate harm” to French media by failing to compensate it for content it republishes.It ordered the US tech…
Good morning, unless you’re a SpaceX shareholder. The company’s stock closed under $150 yesterday, its first day in the Nasdaq 100, for the first time since its June 12 IPO, possibly imperiling Elon Musk’s title as the world’s first trillionaire. Who cares, right? Still, there are takeaways even if SPCX isn’t in your portfolio. First:…
When Kwun Tong Maryknoll College in Hong Kong announced that it would tighten its mobile phone rules on campus, some pupils reacted so strongly that the Catholic boys’ school was forced to put the changes on hold. The secondary school, which currently only bans pupils from using their mobile phones on campus, had planned to…