Twitter has completed the sale of its mobile ad platform, MoPub. The company said it's redirecting its resources toward performance-based ads, SMB and commerce. Twitter reiterated its plans to further the development of its own owned and operated products. The sale of MoPub also represents an opportunity for Twitter to invest in new areas of its business.
Mercedes-Benz unveils its Vision EQXX concept electric car. The vehicle would run for 620 miles before needing to recharge. It would beat the range of the Lucid Air Dream Edition and Tesla Model S Long Range Plus by more than 100 miles. The battery is half the size of and 30 percent lighter than the one in the QS.
Facebook suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for 24 hours, a day after Twitter permanently suspended her account after she spread COVID-19 misinformation. The Georgia Republican has become a lightning rod of controversy on Capitol Hill, from her confrontations with fellow lawmakers to her endorsement of political violence on social media.
Samsung is planning extensive support for NFTs beginning with its 2022 TV lineup. The company says it will introduce the world’s first TV screen-based NFT explorer and marketplace aggregator. The platform will let you browse, purchase, and display your favorite art.
U.S. stocks closed higher on Monday, with Apple Inc hitting a $3 trillion market capitalization and Tesla Inc posting bumper delivery numbers, giving investors cheer on the year's first trading day. Apple became the first company to reach that milestone and its shares ended higher.
NFTs existed before 2021, but this year they went mainstream, as overall trading volume surged, hitting $10.67 billion in the third quarter of the year. New trends such as generative artwork and collective world-building have emerged, while big brands like Adidas and Visa are also in the market. We've rounded up the year's biggest NFT influencers on Twitter, taking into account their impact, the size of their following, and the diversity of their voices.
Sometimes the centre of gravity in tech is very clear - everything is about PCs, or the web, or smartphones. But at other times, there are lots of things going on and none of them are The Thing, and all of them are full of questions. we enter 2022 there are lots of areas where trillion dollar questions are wide open. These are the questions I wonder about at the moment.
Crypto / AR, VR and the metaverse / Games / Regulation / Privacy / Cars / China / Macro
Social media platforms are adding tools for in-app purchasing to make it easier for creators to sell directly to consumers. Brands are likely to take a closer look at striking deals with influencers to stand out from rivals and drive sales. Spending on influencer marketing expanded this year by 42% to $13.8 billion worldwide and is forecast to notch $15 billion by 2022.
Tesla's sales success in 2021 continued right to the very end of the year, delivering 936,172 electric cars in 2021, about 308,600 of them in the fourth quarter. While that isn't the magic 1 million figure the company might have hoped for, it's close to double the 499,550 Tesla handed to customers in 2020.
Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda says the company will release "decentralized games" starting in 2022. Matsuda: "Decentralization gaming" will enable self-sustaining game growth. The company is also promising “ample investments in the cloud space,” though it’s not clear if the company is talking about cloud gaming.
Exchange 2016 and 2019 servers were affected on New Year's Day. Microsoft was trying to store version date checks for its antivirus scanning engine in a 32-bit integer variable. Any date from January 1st, 2022 onward was too large and caused the engine to crash. The emergency fix uses a script to pause two services, replace the older antivirus engine files with newer ones that use a new number sequence, and restart operations.