Tech
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Spotify Reports Strong Subscriber Growth, Big Q2 Loss
Streaming giant now has more than 180 million monthly active users
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Facebook Stock Plummets 21 Percent After Q2 Growth Slows
Social network’s Q2 daily user growth is the worst in its history, even as company hits record earnings
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‘SKAM Austin’ Gets Second Season on Facebook Watch
TCA 2018: Social media company also picks up interactive reality series “Big Chicken Shaq”
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Facebook’s Stock Tanks 9 Percent on Underwhelming Q2 Revenue
Marks first time in 13 quarters social media giant has missed Wall Street expectations
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Snapchat and DC Entertainment Partner to Bring Original MAD Magazine Content to App
New and archival content will be featured seven days a week
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Twitter Blocks 143,000 ‘Malicious’ Apps in Latest Purge
Spam accounts and apps tweeting abusive messages get the boot
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Facebook Q2 Earnings Preview: Is It Instagram’s Time to Shine?
Popular photo sharing app has the attention of Wall Street and advertisers
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Go90 Failure Just Cost Verizon $658 Million
That’s on top of the several hundred million dollars sunk into shuttered streaming service
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Twitter CEO Says There’s ‘Challenging Work’ After New York Times Reporter Calls Platform an ‘Anger Video Game’
Jack Dorsey says Twitter needs to fix its lack of nuance and thoughtful conversation
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Facebook Suspends Kremlin-Tied Data Firm Crimson Hexagon
Firm had government contracts Facebook was unaware of, according to The Wall Street Journal
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Comcast and Disney Enjoy Wall Street Bump on Pulled Fox Bid
Mouse House set to gain much of Fox’s TV and film business with $71.3 billion offer
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Trump Is Facebook’s Biggest Spender on Political Ads, Study Finds
37 million people have seen POTUS ads since May
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Mark Zuckerberg on Why Facebook Doesn’t Boot InfoWars: It’s About ‘Giving People a Voice’
“I just don’t think that it is the right thing to say: ‘We’re going to take someone off the platform if they get things wrong, even multiple times,’” says exec
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Google Hit With Record $5 Billion Fine by European Union
EU says Google has illegally blocked competition by requiring devices to pre-install its Search and Chrome apps
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Breitbart and Drudge Hit by Google Cloud Issue, Go Offline
Several major apps, including Spotify and Snapchat, also impacted
