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Twitter suspends several accounts sharing posts from Trump's website

Mr Trump set up his own website with the ability to share posts after he was banned from a number of social media networks.

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Snap to launch a new Creator Marketplace this month, initially focused on Lens Creators

Snap on Wednesday announced its plan to soon launch a Creator Marketplace, which will make it easier for businesses to find and partner with Snapchat creators, including lens creators, AR creators and

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'Careful, these guys are filming everything': William and Kate launch own YouTube channel

William quips "Be careful what you say now because these guys are filming everything", and a laughing Kate replies "I know".

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Trump still banned from Facebook as suspension upheld

Facebook's oversight board has upheld the indefinite suspension on former US President Donald Trump.The board has upheld Facebook's decision on 7 January to restrict Mr Trump's access to posting cont

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A new YouTube feature will make its connected TV ads more shoppable

YouTube today gave advertisers a sneak peek at its plans to make its video platform more shoppable. The company will soon be introducing a new interactive feature aimed at advertisers called brand ext

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Live video platform Bright lets you Zoom with your favorite creators

What if you could Zoom with your favorite creator and ask them questions? That’s the promise of Bright, the new live video platform launching today from co-founders Guy Oseary and early YouTube

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Sidelines | International Workers' Day: Dancing to a robot's tune?

Sidelines is a column by CGTN's Social Media DeskAs Siri, Alexa and Cortana are speaking in ever more realistic human voices, listening to online beatboxing hits that emulate the hallmark sound effec

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Sister of boy, 6, who suffered fractured skull after being hit by e-scooter rider calls for under-21 ban

It comes as figures show more than 70 people have been injured in the government's e-scooter trials, including 11 seriously hurt.

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Rapchat tunes into $2.3M as its music-making app hits 7M users

YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, TikTok and Facebook’s Instagram have upended the film and TV industries, with a new wave of cinematographers, directors and actors leveraging innovations in technolog

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Roku removes YouTube TV from its channel store following failed negotiations

Earlier this week, Roku warned customers that the YouTube TV app may be removed from its streaming media players and TVs, and alleged that Google was leveraging its monopoly power during contract nego

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Biden’s declaration: America’s democracy ‘is rising anew’

President Joe Biden declared that “America is rising anew” as he called for an expansion of federal programs to drive the economy past the pandemic and broadly extend t

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PortalOne raises $15M from Atari and more for a new hybrid gaming/TV show app

Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats tog

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Head, tail, knees and trees (knees and trees)

Some fun ones this week, so let’s get all of those pesky business transactions out of the way first, shall we? I mean, not that tens of millions of dollars changing hands for future robotics technolog

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Google announces career and digital training initiative for formerly incarcerated individuals

Google today announced the launch of Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry. The initiative — created in partnership with nonprofits The Last Mile, Center for Employment Opportunities (CE

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Google ad surge drives up profits for parent firm Alphabet

A logo of Google in its Berlin office, January 22, 2019. /CFP Google parent Alphabet on Tuesday reported that quarterly profit more than doubled as digital advertising surged with more people

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Big tech earnings in less than 500 words

This afternoon Alphabet and Microsoft and Pinterest reported their quarterly earnings results for the first three months of 2021. Microsoft and Pinterest have rapidly lost value after reporting their

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Amazon announces new Fire tablets and kids editions

There’s a bunch of tablet news coming from Amazon this morning. Leading the way is the release of two new 10-inch devices: the Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 10 Plus. The former features a 1080p display