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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over new Threads platform, cites intellectual property rights

In a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who had access to their trade secrets.

Mark Zuckerberg delivers blow to Elon Musk – Meta launches ‘Twitter Killer’ Threads app

Much like Twitter, the app features short text posts that users can like, re-post and reply to, although it does not include any direct message capabilities.

Meta to launch Twitter-like app Threads, likely to release on 6 July

Threads, Instagram’s text-based conversation app, will allow users to follow accounts they follow on photo-sharing platform and keep the same username.

‘Fight with words, 4 feet apart’: What Elon Musk’s mom thinks ‘duel’ with Zuckerberg should be like

Reacting to the news of Meta planning to create a Twitter rival, Tesla chief Musk has challenged Mark Zuckerberg for a 'cage fight'.

Malaysia to sue Meta for failing to remove ‘undesirable’ content on Facebook

The action against Facebook comes days ahead of regional polls in 6 states that are expected to pit PM Ibrahim’s multi-ethnic coalition against a conservative Malay Muslim alliance.

AI just entered the music scene big. Record labels have a future headache

Generative AIs adapt quickly. Eventually, giants like Warner Brothers, Universal Music, Sony, and even T-Series may struggle to combat these advancements.

Meta launches private broadcast messaging tool Channels on WhatsApp

The company said users will be able to follow content on their hobbies, sports teams, updates from local officials and others.

Meta tests in Canada to limit news access on Facebook, Instagram

Meta had, in March, warned it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if proposed bill ‘Online News Act’ was passed in its current form.

Facebook owner Meta slashes business teams in final round of layoffs

Meta's layoffs followed months of waning revenue growth amid high inflation and a digital ad pullback from the pandemic e-commerce boom.

EU fines Facebook with $1.3 bn for mishandling user info, gives 5 months to stop US data flow

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead privacy regulator in the European Union for its handling of user information and given

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Trudeau is nursing snakes in his own backyard. Misguided Sikhs in Canada are losing the plot

By turning a blind eye to the snakes in his own backyard, Trudeau is setting the stage for a disaster of epic proportions for his country, his people, and the world at large.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

India carries out 1st patrol in Depsang since disengagement with China, to take things ‘slow’

While there are patrolling points (PP) 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, the patrol in the region Monday was carried out to only one point as decided by India and China.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.