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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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
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Michelle Obama Podcast to Debut on Spotify Later This Month
“The Michelle Obama Podcast” will launch on July 29 and feature interviews with Conan O’Brien and Valerie Jarrett, among other guests
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Twitter Temporarily Blocks Verified Blue-Check Accounts From Tweeting While Reviewing Obama, Biden Hack
Users with a blue checkmark next to their name were unable to tweet as tech giant investigated bitcoin scam
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Barack Obama and Elon Musk’s Twitter Accounts Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
Hackers promised to double any payments followers make to a particular bitcoin address
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Netflix Q2 Earnings Preview: Can the Streaming Giant’s Big Run Continue?
“The COVID-19 crisis is accelerating the shift from traditional content consumption,” like Pay-TV and movie theaters, and towards Netflix, analyst Heath Terry says
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Inside Spotify’s Big Podcasting Bet – Can It Take a Bite Out of Apple?
Exclusive deals with Joe Rogan and Kim Kardashian, among others, show Spotify is serious about being known for more than just music
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Only 72,000 Early Quibi Users Stuck Around After Free Trial, Sensor Tower Estimates
Quibi pushed back on estimate, saying the firm’s number was “incorrect by an order of magnitude,” without sharing an official subscriber figure
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Roger Stone’s Facebook, Instagram Accounts Purged for Spreading Misinformation
Former Trump campaign adviser used more than 100 accounts that violated Facebook’s policy against “coordinated inauthentic behavior”
