Sean is a business reporter who covers tech and media for TheWrap based in New York City. His beat includes companies like Meta and TikTok, as well as notable industry figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Sean covers the news landscape and closely watches digital media.
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Trevor Noah: Reaction to Liam Neeson’s ‘Powerful Admission’ Would’ve Been Different on ‘Oprah’
“Taken” actor said that after a friend was raped by a black man decades ago, he “went up and down areas with a cosh [bludgeon], hoping I’d be approached by somebody”
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Google and Facebook’s Complete and Total Digital Ad Domination Explained in 1 Chart
Tech duopoly controls more than 60 percent of all global online advertising — a dominance that’s projected to only grow in the next three years
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Amy Schumer, John Mulaney Support Boycott of Jerry Media Over Lifted Jokes and Memes
Popular Instagram account F—Jerry has lost 300,000 followers as critics blast it for posting content without consent
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Twitter Finally Reports Daily User Base, Posts Strong Q4 Revenue Growth
Company stock still drops 7 percent in pre-market trading on weak Q1 guidance
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Snapchat Snaps Back: Is Fresh Content the Key to Snap’s Longterm Success?
Pictures-and-messaging app has stopped losing users; now it needs its shows to drive more downloads in 2019
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Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts With Gimlet and Anchor Deals, Pegs Another $500 Million for Acquisitions
CEO Daniel Ek says he expects podcasts to make up 20 percent of listening on Spotify in the near future
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Snap User Growth Stalls, but Company Posts Record Q4 Revenue
Company stock rockets 19 percent on strong sales, narrower losses
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Jimmy Kimmel Gets Angelenos to Congratulate LA Rams for Super Bowl ‘Victory’ (Video)
“It was loud, it was passionate, and it was intense,” says one woman who clearly didn’t watch the New England Patriots win Super Bowl LIII
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FX Boss John Landgraf Bashes Google and Facebook’s ‘Winner-Take-All’ Mentality: ‘Not a Good Thing for Society’
TCA 2019: FX boss says he’s fundamentally opposed to when “one entity or one person gets to unilaterally make the rules or pronounce the truth”
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Slack ‘Confidentially’ Files for Its IPO
Popular workplace messaging service will likely make its Wall Street debut during the second quarter
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Demi Lovato Drops Twitter After Users Blast Her as a ‘Junkie,’ ‘Crackhead,’ for 21 Savage Meme
“F— Twitter. This is why I don’t tweet anymore” pop singer says
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7 Things We Learned in Tech World This Week, From Apple’s Blunder to Elon Musk’s Pivot to Boring
Apple’s FaceTime blunder shows it has its own privacy concerns, while Facebook’s year of bad press did nothing to scare users away
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Apple Apologizes for FaceTime Bug, Says a Fix Will Be Available Next Week
Glitch allowed callers to listen to audio on someone else’s phone — even if they didn’t answer
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Amazon Delivers Record Quarterly Revenue, Surpasses Wall Street’s Q4 Earnings Expectations
E-commerce giant brings in $72.4 billion during the holiday quarter
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Facebook Removes 783 Iranian Accounts for ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’
Purged accounts spread Iranian state media as well as anti-Semitic cartoons
