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.
Experience:
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Tinder Names Former CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone as New Chief Executive
Lanzone will takeover for Elie Seidman in early August
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Google Won’t Have Employees Return to the Office Until July 2021 at the Earliest
Tech giant plans on having its 200,000 employees and contractors work from home for at least another year, due to the coronavirus pandemic
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If TikTok Gets Banned in the US, These 4 Apps Could Benefit Most
Quick-hit video apps like Triller and Byte could be big winners if the U.S. Government takes action against TikTok
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Quibi Now Lets Users Screenshot Shows – But There’s a Twist
Until Thursday, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s subscription video service has been lampooned for its inability to let users share their favorite content
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Twitter Adds Record 20 Million New Users, Falls Short of Q2 Revenue Projections
User growth surged 34% from the same time last year, sending Twitter’s share price up 7% in premarket trading
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Netflix’s Average Subscribers Only Watch 2% of Service’s Library Each Year
You’d need to spend more than 4 years binging nonstop to exhaust Netflix’s content library, according to a new report
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Coronavirus Will Sink Media Earnings: Can Streaming Save the Day?
Expect executives to tout performance of new services while the virus wrecks the balance sheet
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Parler, Twitter’s Free Speech-Focused Competitor, Sees Momentum Stall
After back-to-back weeks of more than 700,000 downloads in June, Parler’s downloads have dropped to 116,000 per week by mid-July
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Snap Adds 9 Million Users in Q2, But Stock Tanks 11% in After-Hours Trading
Snapchat parent company easily topped analyst sales estimates, but it wasn’t enough to satiate investors, at least at first blush
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Facebook Has ‘No Deal’ With Trump, Zuckerberg Says
It’s “pretty ridiculous” to think Facebook gives the president special treatment, CEO adds
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Cloudfare Outage Pulls Medium, Politico and Several Other Major Sites Offline
DNS service provider says a faulty router in Atlanta led to several sites going offline for about 30 minutes
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Inside Netflix’s ‘Remarkable’ Move to Bump Ted Sarandos Up to Co-CEO
“It seems Netflix is not only rewriting the rules of content and content distribution, but also the mores of executive treatment,” former ABC Daytime President Brian Frons says
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Netflix Adds Another 10.1 Million Subscribers in Q2, Stock Drops 10%
Streaming giant says Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos will become co-CEO alongside chief Reed Hastings in its letter to shareholders
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Instagram to Launch Reels, Its TikTok Competitor, in US Next Month
Users will be able to create and share 15-second clips that are set to music — just like TikTok
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Zoom Smashes TikTok’s App Store Record for Most Downloads in a Single Quarter
Popular video conference app hit 94 million mobile downloads during Q2 as COVID-19 accelerated a shift towards working from home
