Ford and SK Innovation will spend a combined $11.4 billion to build several new factories in Tennessee and Kentucky focused on the development and production of electric vehicles and batteries that power them. The new facilities represent the first new plants built by Ford, completely from scratch, in over 50 years.
Huobi Global will close all user accounts in mainland China by the end of the year after the country's central bank declared all crypto-related transactions illegal. The exchange will also retire existing accounts in China by 2021 to protect its assets.
TikTok hit 1 billion monthly active users globally this summer, marking a 45% jump since July 2020. The United States, Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia are the biggest markets for the popular short-video app. The company previously said it had about 55 million global users by January 2018, but that number rose to 271 million by December 2018, 508 million and 689 million by July 2020, according to the company.
Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids’ version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users, following an investigative series by The Wall Street Journal which reported that Facebook was aware that the use of Instagram by some teenage girls led to mental health issues and anxiety.
According to the director of marketing and communications at a live shopping startup in North America, the continent's adopters have soared to success and learn big lessons about how to choose the face of these live-shopping events and how a new industry standard for selection, payment and expertise can be implemented. The North American set is still new to this innovation, where influencers transform star power to selling power in moving millions of dollars of perfume, produce and even seats on a rocket launcher.
For the last 15 years, radio's total revenue has remained flat or dropped slightly, but digital audio is expected to iFor the last 15 years, radio's total revenue has remained flat or dropped slightly, but digital audio is expected to increase by 28% to $10 billion as digital audio continues to rise to $5.59 billion in 2021, while podcasting fueled the growth.
Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist and an engineering teacher, started seeing the problem in 2017 as she was teaching students to use simulation software for jet engines, but students were getting the same error message: The program couldn't find their files. The concept of file folders and directories is gibberish to many modern students, which is essential to previous generations' understanding of computers.
Marketers are working more closely with publishers to replace lost data as third-party cookies crumble, leaving the ones in the middle in a more precarious position as the largest media holding companies are well-positioned, as are the savvier smaller publishers who dominate a niche, but they are too small to build credible first-party audiences at scale.
The European Union announced on Thursday that it will force Apple's iPhone to adopt a standard connector called USB-C in order to cut down gadget waste. The plan would also apply to other gadgets such as headphones and cameras, but there are exceptions too, according to the EU.
Despite the head of the National Transportation Safety Board expressing serious concerns about its safety last week, Tesla has now enabled access to the beta of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) program to more Tesla drivers, via a “request” button on Teslas’ dashboard screens. However, before a driver gets access to the software, Tesla will determine their “safety score,” using five criteria that estimate “the likelihood that your driving could result in a future collision,” according to a page on Tesla’s website.