Spotify informed The Budgets that they have paid podcast publishers and creators over $100 million since the start of January. The payout is the result of a program introduced in 2025 that opened up new revenue streams to eligible hosts.…
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Twenty years ago this past week, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the very first YouTube video, titled “Me at the Zoo.” “All right. So here we are, in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that…
Google has illegally built “monopoly power” with its web advertising business, a federal judge in Virginia has ruled, siding with the Justice Department in a landmark case against the tech giant that could reshape the basic economics of running a…
Silicon Valley’s tech giants have long regarded antitrust scrutiny as an irritating cost of doing business. There will be investigations, filings, depositions and even lawsuits. Yet courts move slowly, while technology rushes ahead. Time works to the companies’ advantage, as the…
Netflix fared better than analysts anticipated during the first three months of the year, signaling the world’s largest video streaming service is still thriving as President Donald Trump’s policies cast a pall on the economy. The numbers released Thursday indicated Netflix is still building on…
In a landmark decision, a U.S. federal judge has ruled that Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., illegally monopolized key sectors of the online advertising technology market. The ruling marks a significant setback for the tech giant, which has long dominated…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has launched an investigation into allegations of workplace discrimination against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services company. The probe follows complaints from American workers who claim they were unfairly replaced by…
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday for defrauding investors about her company’s technology and business dealings. The sentence capped a yearslong saga…
Google Inc. is snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a starring role in the online video revolution. The all-stock deal announced Monday unites one of the Internet’s marquee companies…
