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IMDb TV, Amazon’s two-year-old, free streaming service, is now available as a stand-alone app on Chromecast with Google TV and will soon be on other Android TV OS devices in the U.S. The distribution expansion follows recent launches of the IMDb TV app on Roku, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Sony Android TV devices…

Facebook will restore news to its platform in Australia after the government agreed to modify proposed legislation that had kicked off a bitter battle over how publishers are compensated for use of their content by Internet giants. On Tuesday, Australian lawmakers said the code would now include a provision that must…

Facebook will restrict publishers and users in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content as the Parliament there debates a law that would force tech and social media platforms – namely it and Google — to pay more for journalism on their sites. The announcement  came shortly after…

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Wednesday said it has agreed to "an historic" three-year partnership with Google to provide journalism from its news sites around the world in return for significant payments by Google. It didn’t reveal payment terms but said publications joining the Google News Showcase include the Wall S…

Twitter wants to make its content moderation more transparent and its appeals process more robust, and to work some more on an open source initiative called Blue Sky that could relieve pressure on the company as a centralized curator of content. So says CEO Jack Dorsey, speaking at a Goldman Sachs virtual investor…

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has formally introduced legislation to strengthen antitrust laws and restore competition to American markets. The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act “will give federal enforcers the resources they need to do their jobs, strengthen prohibitions on anticompetitive…

Google/YouTube parent Alphabet saw revenue jump last quarter driven by YouTube and search as advertising recovered. The giant company’s total sales surged to $56.9 billion for the last three months of 2020 from $46 billion the year before, smashing expectations. YouTube ad revenue jumped to $6.9 billion from $4.7…

YouTube overnight announced a first round of winners for its YouTube Black Voices Class of 2021, an initiative to invest in fresh narratives on the video platform "that emphasize the intellectual power, authenticity, dignity, and joy of Black voices." The 132 creators and artists are from the U.S., U.K., Kenya…

UPDATED with closing prices: Shares of Twitter fell more than 10% in early trading after the social media platform banned President Donald Trump permanently Friday for risk of inciting violence, but had regained some ground by late morning as heat around Internet regulation ratcheted up. The stock closed at $48.97…

UPDATED, 5:20 PM: Apple has removed Parler from its app store, less than a day after it had enacted a 24 ban for the self-described far-right altnerate to Twitter, to “remove all objectionable content.” “We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on our…

Google was hit with another antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, as 35 states other other U.S. territories claim that the internet giant has stifled competition in its dominance of web search. “As the gateway to the internet, Google has systematically degraded the ability of other companies to access consumers,” the lawsuit…

Google is pushing back the date when its workers will return to offices to September 2021 and is also planning to test out a flexible work schedule with an eye toward possibly making it a permanent setup. The news was conveyed to employees by CEO Sundar Pichai in an email Sunday night. Previously, the company had…