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Tech Giants Deliver AI-Powered Earnings Growth

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Quarterly earnings at tech giants Meta and Microsoft surged, indicating that multi-billion dollar AI investments are starting to pay off.

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Big Tech

2023: The Year in Tech

2023 saw AI live rent-free in all of our heads, plus in an unexpected twist Mark Zuckerberg became the adult in the room.

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Big Tech

VR Headsets Sales Are Way, Way Down

Sales of virtual-reality headsets, consumers’ conduit to the metaverse, plummeted 40% between November 2022 and November 2023.

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Big Tech

Apple Faces EU Punishment for App Store ‘Bullying’

The European Union is preparing to levy a hefty fine against Apple and ban some of its App Store practices, according to Bloomberg.

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Finance

Can the Magnificent Seven Ride Again?

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After serving as the driving force for a blistering market rise, the so-called Magnificent Seven have taken an epic stumble in 2025.

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Big Tech

Meta Files Lawsuit Arguing FTC’s In-House Courts are Unconstitutional

Meta on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission arguing its in-house trials are unconstitutional.

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Big Tech

Meta’s Paid Ad-Free Plan Gets Hit With Privacy Lawsuit

Mark Zuckerberg’s newest nemesis, Max Schrems, says Meta’s new pay-for-privacy subscription doesn’t comply with EU laws.

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Patent Drop

Special Report: How Big Tech Makes You Buy

As the holiday season approaches, consumers and tech companies alike have shopping on the brain.

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Media & Entertainment

Advertising Industry Sweats a Recession-Spurred Pullback

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The warnings come as the industry adapts to seismic shifts in technology — which means it may just have some new tricks up its sleeve.

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Bots Struggle to Transition from Novelty to Money-Maker

Sam Altman thinks big and spends big. But when it comes to a product that makes money, the whole AI thing can feel a little Metaverse-y…

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Big Tech

Tech Giants Win Regulatory Case in EU, But Tax Clouds Loom

Meta, Google, and TikTok successfully argued that individual European countries can’t cook up their own laws for large digital platforms.

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Technology

ByteDance Is Scaling Back its VR Ambitions

ByteDance is undergoing a sweeping restructuring and scaleback of its VR division, according to a Financial Times report on Tuesday.

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Big Tech

FTC Says Meta is a Monopoly. But in Which Markets, Exactly?

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Central to the trial is one question: Just who, exactly, are Meta’s competitors? The FTC’s answer may be narrower than you’d expect.

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