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YouTube, which has been under pressure for facilitating inappropriate content viewed by children, is in discussions with federal regulators to end its advertising targeting on videos that appeal to kids, Bloomberg reported. Several years ago, Google-owned YouTube launched a new arena that would ostensibly house all of…

Already under investigation and review by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet could soon face similar probes in more than a dozen states. Appearing Tuesday at the the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum (see full video above), DOJ antitrust…

Apple is considering a monthly charge of $10 for its Apple TV+ streaming service and has set aside $6 billion for content, according to two reports late Monday. Bloomberg, citing unidentified sources, said the company is eyeing a $9.99 monthly subscription price for the streaming service, which it hopes to launch by…

Amazon Prime Video appears to be suffering from at least a partial outage worldwide, with complaints piling up on Twitter about the lack of service. The tracking service Down Detector notes that outage reports have suddenly spiked. Some users report the trouble lines are saturated, and that customer service has said…

Roku shares jumped in after-hours trading Wednesday, adding to their already surging value, after the streaming specialist reported another stellar quarter of growth. In its fiscal second quarter ending June 30, Roku said it lost 8 cents a share on a diluted basis, compared with a break-even quarter in 2018. But the…

Jeff Bezos sold nearly 1 million shares of Amazon stock in the last three days of July, according to SEC filings, in the wake of his divorce being finalized. While the shares are worth about $1.8 billion, the 12% of Amazon that Jeff Bezos still controls means he remains the world’s richest person. His net worth after…

Apple beat Wall Street estimates for its third-quarter earnings and revenue, but sales of the iPhone — which still accounts for roughly half of all company revenue — came in lower than expected. Earnings came in at $2.18 a share, well ahead of analysts’ consensus for $2.10 a share, though the profit still slipped from…

In a long-expected settlement, the Department of Justice has agreed to approve the $26 billion merger of No. 3 and No. 4 U.S. telecom providers T-Mobile and Sprint. As a condition of the approval, the combined entity has agreed to sell Sprint's Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile and Sprint-branded prepaid mobile services to D…

Twitter stock, which has risen an un-tech-like 11% in 2019 so far as the company tries to work out kinks in its user experience, leaped 8% in the opening minutes of trading Friday on stellar second-quarter financial results. The company reported quarterly revenue of $841 million, up 18% over the prior-year quarter and…

Facebook did not break stride despite agreeing Wednesday morning to pay a record $5 billion fine to the U.S. government, posting second-quarter results after the close of trading that exceeded Wall Street expectations. Earning per share came in at $1.99 a share, better than analysts’ consensus forecast of $1.88, while…

Facebook, which has faced intensifying government scrutiny after revelations of its misappropriation of user data, has agreed to a record $5 billion fine and new restrictions. In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission made public on Wednesday (hours before the company was slated to report its quarterly…

Makan Delrahim, the Donald Trump appointee at the U.S. Department of Justice, who heads the antitrust division and led the lawsuit seeking to block AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition, has a new target: tech giants. Delrahim’s boss, Attorney General William Barr, has increased rhetoric questioning tech company methods in…