President Trump on Friday said he would sign an executive order to extend the deadline for TikTok to find a buyer that will keep the social media platform up and running for another 75 days. In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said, “My Administration has been working very hard on…
Five times this century Hong Kong has been chosen to host the Asian Marathon Championships in conjunction with the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, such is the regard in which the latter event is held. That puts it up there with the famous Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in flying the city’s flag abroad. A…
Incoming President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social he discussed “balancing” TikTok with China’s President Xi Jinping in a phone call on Friday. Trump’s post came just minutes before the Supreme Court on Friday rejected TikTok’s appeal to overturn a ban on the social media platform set to begin Jan. 19, just…
By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – Several British police forces have largely withdrawn from Elon Musk’s X social media platform as concerns over its role in promoting violence and extreme content persist, a Reuters survey of forces’ social media output showed. X, formerly Twitter, was used to spread misinformation that sparked riots across Britain this summer,…
Last month, e-commerce giant JD.com cut ties with the female comedian Yang Li after a promotional campaign triggered intense backlash from male customers, including some who threatened to stop shopping on the app. At the heart of their criticism appears to be Yang’s mildly sarcastic poke at men in a 2020 routine, where she asked:…
Trump Media & Technology Group stock (DJT) leaped 15% Friday and was briefly halted for volatility after Donald Trump said he would not sell his shares in the company, the home of Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social. Trump, who made the announcement on his Truth Social account, maintains a roughly 60% interest in DJT….
Reddit (RDDT) stock soared more than 40% to a record high of $117 on Wednesday after the social media company reaped its first-ever profit as a public company and its third quarter revenue beat Wall Street’s expectations. Shares closed up 42% at $116. Reddit on Tuesday evening reported quarterly sales of $348 million — up…
Reddit (RDDT) is wearing its new popularity well. Shares of the social media platform exploded over 40% on Tuesday following the company’s first-ever profitable quarter. “I think we’re hitting a kind of an era of mainstream for Reddit,” Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told Yahoo Finance (video above). “We finally made the product easy…
Donald Trump’s fledgling social-media company Truth Social is now worth more than X, formerly known as Twitter. Thanks to a stock price that’s soaring in the final days before the election, the market cap of the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) now exceeds that of X, which owner Elon Musk took private in October…
Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s second-richest person for the first time Thursday, jumping ahead of Jeff Bezos as shares of Meta Platforms Inc. continue to climb. Zuckerberg’s bet on the metaverse — which initially looked like a huge bust — has paid off in recent months, pushing his net worth to a high-water mark of…