Facebook accused of knowingly inflating its ad audience

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Engadget

Facebook's senior executives knew that it was overestimating the number of users its advertisers could reach, according to an amended lawsuit reported by the Financial Times. A product manager told senior executives in 2018 that Facebook's po...

Twitter is considering subscriptions amid an advertising slump

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter just had a successful quarter in one sense, with a huge surge in user numbers as the pandemic truly took hold. It hit 186 million monetizable daily active users between April and June (up 34 percent year-over-year), but it had an operating lo...

Google proposed, then abandoned, a website tipping feature

Posted on 24/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Google was at one point working on a tipping feature that would let people donate small amounts of money to websites as they were browsing them, but it abandoned the idea in favor of other pursuits. As reported by TechCrunch — which obtained mock-up...

GoPro lays off 200 employees as coronavirus pandemic impacts sales

Posted on 16/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

GoPro has announced that it will lay off 200 employees or around 20 percent of its workforce due to the coronavirus pandemic. It aims to reduce expenses by about $100 million by switching the majority of its business to a direct-to-consumer model. Th...

Instagram brought in more money than YouTube in 2019

Posted on 04/02/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

There's little doubt that Instagram is important to Facebook's bottom line, but how big is it, really? It might be larger than you think. Bloomberg sources say Instagram racked up $20 billion in ad revenue in 2019, handily eclipsing YouTube's $15.1...

Epic Games Store will keep offering free games throughout 2020

Posted on 14/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Epic Games Store has faced something of a challenge in capturing the hearts and minds of gamers since its launch in 2018. Its continued insistence on exclusives, plus its relative immaturity compared to the likes of Steam, has seen complaints fro...

Netflix releases worldwide subscriber stats by region for the first time

Posted on 17/12/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

For the first time, Netflix is reporting its international business operating results by region. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Netflix shared its streaming revenue and membership info for the US and Canada; Europe, Mi...

Uber Eats might start showing ads, too

Posted on 06/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

You might soon see ads while you're looking for dinner in Uber Eats. The company recently posted a job listing, first spotted by TechCrunch, for an Uber Eats Ads Lead, and a spokesperson confirmed that Uber is exploring bringing relevant ads to Eats....

Sony’s PS4 is the second best-selling console of all time

Posted on 30/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Sony's PlayStation 4 has become the second best-selling console of all time, surpassing the original PlayStation, which sold 102.5 million units. Sony said that it sold 2.8 million PS4s this quarter (including the PS4 Pro), on top of the 100 million...

HBO Max can’t come fast enough for AT&T

Posted on 28/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

If AT&T's convoluted TV streaming options didn't convince you that the company was struggling, maybe its Q3 earnings will. According to the latest earnings report, released today, the company's revenue dropped 2.5 percent, with Warner Media reven...

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