Category: social

EXCLUSIVE TikTok owner ByteDance’s revenue growth slowed to 70% in 2021 – sources

Posted on by Livio Andrea Acerbo
Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

TikTok owner ByteDance saw its  revenue grow  70% year on year to about $58 billion in 2021,  slower growth than a year earlier as China tightens its regulation of big tech companies.

According to two people familiar with the matter the numbers were revealed to a small group of [...]  ...

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Facebook parent’s head of communications leaves company

Posted on by Livio Andrea Acerbo
A 3D printed Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta is placed on laptop keyboard in this illustration taken on November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Head of communications for Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), John Pinette, will be leaving the company, the social media company said  on Friday. 

Chris Norton, vice president of international communications, will fill the acting role, a Meta spokesperson said [...]  ...

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Reddit taps Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs for IPO – source

Posted on by Livio Andrea Acerbo
Reddit app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Social media platform Reddit Inc, whose message boards became the center of the stock trading frenzy in 2021, relies on Wall Street banks Morgan Stanley (MS.N) and Goldman Sachs Group (GS. N) for its initial public offering, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. 

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HBO Max shows growth despite industry slowdown

Posted on by Livio Andrea Acerbo
The logo for HBO is pictured during the HBO presentation at the Cable portion of the Television Critics Association Summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Fred Prouser


WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming service gained subscribers over the holidays, defying the slowing pace of growth of some competing services, with lineup that included the rebirth of its popular “Sex and the City” series and new films such as “The Matrix”Resurrections.HBO [...]  ...

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Tumblr is at war with Apple over ‘mature’ content on its app again

Posted on by Livio Andrea Acerbo
Tumblr banned tags


 Tumblr users looking to view adult content on the platform must avoid the iOS app as the company says it hides “sensitive content” so as not to violate Apple’s sensitivities.

 “In order to remain available in the Apple App Store,” says Tumblr, “we need to expand the definition of  sensitive content and access to it in order to meet its guidelines.” Apple are available. 

The company says it will display the above overlay on blogs “marked as explicit” and when “you see search results or tags for specific words or phrases”. 

However, users will have to guess what has leaked as Tumblr will not “currently” reveal this information.

It probably won’t be  hard to guess what leaked, but the new definition of “sensitive content” goes beyond what some would expect. 

Tumblr says  users “may also notice” that:

  •  Images they receive through blog direct messages that they don’t follow can’t be viewed in the app. 
  • Explicitly marked blog likes and reblogs  are hidden from notes. 
  • The images of the  reblogs that appear in the post notes are blurry unless you follow the Tumblr that added the image.
  •  Your dashboard (the “Next” and the “Materials For You” tab), search results, and tag results will no longer display content that contains certain words or phrases. 
  • Certain words and phrases have been removed from  search (sometimes called search suggestions). 
  • We have excluded blogs from search results and tags that may contain or create sensitive content.

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