‘Verity’ earned a strong opening thanks to a female audience who discovered the story through Colleen Hoover’s novel. Women are showing up for several movies in 2026.
Blue Duck Capital Partners has written to Snap’s board urging it to sell about a fifth of its Specs subsidiary at a $5B valuation, raising $1B to fund roughly two years of spending without diluting Snap shareholders. It is the second fund to press Snap…
Bluesky says the process will still take 18-24 months, so don’t expect your new, shortened ‘bsky’ handle any time soon.
Lisa Gilroy, Kareem Rahma and Nicole Byer star in a three-part social comedy series as Xfinity experiments with podcast-style content and recurring characters.
Meta, TikTok and X are challenging Ofcom in court over its data demands under the UK’s Online Safety Act, Reuters reported on Monday. The challenge is one of the first brought under the 2023 law. In February, Ofcom sent the companies information notice…
TikTok is adding an AI shopping assistant and one-click checkout to its app. The two features let users buy directly from brands without leaving TikTok, the company said in an announcement at Advertising Week New York on Monday. Buy Direct is an in-app…
Pinterest has made James Dibbo its chief financial officer from 26 October, hired out of Amazon where he was finance chief for global entertainment, advertising and corporate development. He replaces Julia Brau Donnelly, who announced her departure in …
Audible’s new AI Interactive Story feature lets listeners talk to literary characters in real time. It raises copyright questions the law hasn’t answered yet.
Many are worried that killing RSS feeds will destroy one of the last open, user-controlled ways to read the web.
Discord is opening its advertising business to companies of any size, as Scharon Harding reported for Ars Technica. The chat app has launched Discord Ads Manager, a tool for planning, buying and tracking ad campaigns in one place, it said on Tuesday. S…