@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/alphabet-owned-r…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMAGA-Owned Business Accused of Sneaking Immigrant Workers Into U.S. (Wiktoria Gucia/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-owned-business-accused-of-sneaking-immigrant-workers-into-us/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p90#a260225p90
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@publicdomainrev/116290468957637339
Weird factoid, when I owned a house in Old City, Philadelphia it was the one that Franklin borrowed the key from, according to an urban legend (that was printed in multiple tour guides). The house was build by a friend of him in the 1740s.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRussia arrests alleged owner of cybercrime forum LeakBase, report says
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/russia-arrests-alleged-owner-of-cybercrime-forum-leakbase-report-says/
@cdarwin@c.imAgents shot and killed a 37-year-old US citizen at about 9am on Saturday,
with other observers watching and videotaping their actions,
in an area called Eat Street,
a corridor of largely immigrant-owned restaurants and businesses.
Footage appears to show the moment man is shot dead by federal agent in Minneapolis – video
It’s the second killing in the city after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in south Minneapolis on 7 January.
@brian_gettler@mas.toThank you local public institution for only making important operational announcements on foreign, corporate-owned social media. Those of us who haven't given our data to these entities and who are naive enough to imagine you'd put important announcements on your website salute you!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney subscribers now get access to ABC local news feeds from eight US cities including NYC and LA; the streams join national shows such as World News Tonight (The Walt Disney Company)
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/news/abc-local-news-disney-plus/
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThe Feds keep saying "We did not" or "We will not" buy this or that empty warehouse for use as an ICE prison.
What they are hiding is that in order for a warehouse to be an ICE/CBP prison that the warehouse need not be "owned" by the Feds.
Rather the warehouse could be bought by a maga-friend, like Elon or Ellison etc and then leased to the government.
The Feds would not bey lying when they say they are not buying the warehouse. But they will …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Owned Davos (Fred Fleitz/American Greatness)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/01/23/trump-owned-davos/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p47#a260123p47
@vosje62@mastodon.nlEen opgetrokken lip of korte grom helpt al – De Groene Amsterdammer
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-opgetrokken-lip-of-korte-grom-helpt-al?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon
Archive
https://archive.ph/2026.03.18-151146/https://www.groene.nl/artikel/een-opgetrokken-lip-of-korte-grom-helpt-al
'Van Zomeren is al helemaal gewend aan het werk met de honden en zou niet meer zonder ze willen. ‘Maar aanvaringen met recreanten: dat went nooit.’ '
@aral@mastodon.ar.alEthical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialThe whole #ICE crapola going on these days is causing interesting mistakes in all kinds of reporting. There’s an article in our local newspaper (sadly, they’re owned by Gannet, but that’s another story) about a new intentional community breaking ground on a 20-acre development in town. In a description of the ultimate layout of the community there is mention (twice) of a detention pond. I’m pretty sure…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInvestigation urged into immigration practices of company owned by Maga donors (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/25/wisconsin-official-uline-investigation-maga-donors
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p64#a260225p64
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b905cb50-3093-4273-b097-4cedc835fadd
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe equal-time rule only applies to candidates for office. The full “Fairness Doctrine” was ended 40 years ago and the lesser “Zapple Doctrine” which extended the equal-time rule to spokespeople and supporters was ended in 2014.
I think we don’t really need to take this seriously. @…
@bourgwick@heads.socialbased on highly unscientific observation over the past 6 weeks, the t***a dealership i regularly walk by in brooklyn has stopped selling c********ks, no longer on the showroom floor & none parked out back. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116103440455128250
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzNot seeing any redeeming qualities in this US-owned mining corporation. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-18/alcoa-fined-for-clearing-jarrah-forest-for-bauxite-mine/106359988 Why do countries like NZ and AU continue to allow an…
@cdarwin@c.imJeff Webb,
a conservative political activist considered to be Charlie Kirk’s “mentor”
has died after he fell while playing pickleball
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/charlie-kirks-mentor-dies-after-36904048
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b905cb50-3093-4273-b097-4cedc835fadd
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRyanair couldn’t possibly be owned by a bigger jackass than Michael O'Leary…
Elon Musk: hold my beer
#ireland
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialFT Alphaville doesn't think that it would be possible for Europe to weaponise its holdings of US Treasuries because most of them are privately owned, but I reckon a 10% tax on both their purchase and their coupons would have the desired effect.
"Could Europe really leverage its $12.6tn pile of US assets?"
With paywall:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/waymo-launches-robotaxi-service-in-miami-…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders’ Maxx Crosby joins rival 49ers on Premier League pitch https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-maxx-crosby-joins-rival-49ers-on-premier-league-pitch-3710439/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caThe Avi Lewis AMA on Reddit this afternoon was interesting. He didn't answer my question, and I'll eventually get over it, but he was swinging for the fences with his ideas. His responses would resonate I think with MastoCanucks as they pretty much call for the government to get more involved in providing real solutions. Including building 1M public homes, tackling U.S. ownership of our media, getting rid of FPTP with electoral reform, guaranteed income programs, publicly owned options for major business categories (banks, grocery, phones, etc). Those big ideas could wake up and excite voters while at the same time facing huge opposition from big businesses and wealthy Canadians who would face a new wealth tax.
I hope he wins the leadership. At the very least he'll push the Liberals to be bolder, and maybe even lead a minority government that could bring some of his ideas to fruition.
#CanPoli #NDP
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/fwKRmDPSvd
@gwire@mastodon.socialHere's a list of Estée Lauder brands. Should you want to be aware of which brands are owned by Estée Lauder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Estée_Lauder_Companies#Brands
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldI get that surveillance cameras can do a lot of good, and this case is just one illustration. But I don't think I'll ever get comfortable with the idea of government-owned surveillance gear like this. When the government owns it, qui custodes custodiet?
Cameras helped ID suspect in Tepe killings. But how effective are they?
https://archive…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialTHE Scottish Greens have launched a Holyrood bid to ban the US military from Prestwick Airport and other publicly owned airports across Scotland.
Ban US military from Scottish government airports, urge Greens | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialThe Epstein Files are wild. While I’m 99.9% sure I don’t know any of the evil folks listed in them I actually know two people here in Milwaukee who did work for a guy who is mentioned in them.
One was part of a cleaning crew for a house (mansion) the guy owned, and another built a web site for a business the guy owned.
I wonder how many degrees of separation the average person has.
@timfoster@mastodon.socialI drove 256 miles in the Boxster today to collect the remainder of ski-trip luggage from Wicklow, and help Mum & Dad with their Australian tourist visa applications.
That trip, a mixture of motorway and B-roads really cemented it for me: that little blue thing is the best car I've ever owned (possibly ever driven?) If you have the chance, I heartily recommend obtaining one..
It's now also utterly filthy, but wearing the road-muck very well.
@nelson@tech.lgbtI am wrong! The New Colgate Powerhouse is independent, owned and run by the Yuba Water Agency. So the pipe failure is not PG&E's responsibility. PG&E's grid didn't respond very well but maybe there's water damage in the area that complicated things.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe 2 ways I know to watch ION is
1. Tubi
2. Roku Channel
both are free and can be watched in a browser but Tubi is owned by foxcorp.
#nwsl
@smashtie@mas.toMy youngest got me the most amazing Christmas present! A session handling some items from the V&A East storehouse. Yes, actual touching allowed! (Gloves provided) So I touched two ancient mandolins, a watercolour by Beatrix Potter, an original sketch for a Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back costume design, and a four-track tape recorder and mixer desk owned by David Bowie. She knows me so well. ❤️❤️❤️ #art <…
@scott@carfree.cityCopaganda watch: Here's a story about a struggling restaurant in SoMa, owned by two women of color.
Then there's a sharp pivot to Supervisor Matt Dorsey's solutions, all based on coercion and punishment: "a multi-layered strategy of business curfews, higher police staffing and a new sobering center." This would only continue to make conditions worse.
@cdarwin@c.imJust 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024,
down from 36 a year earlier, a report has revealed.
Saudi Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter
and ExxonMobil was the largest investor-owned polluter.
Critics accused the leading fossil fuel companies of
“sabotaging climate action” and
“being on the wrong side of history”
but said the emissions data was increasing…
@ripienaar@devco.socialLove that there are places to be found where you show up in a place the family owned for 100s of years and you eat without menu whatever they have from local fields.
Never again city life.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…
@nohillside@smnn.chUnd wie immer schweigen die selbsternannten Free Speech Warrior …
Russia Fully Blocks WhatsApp - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/067244/russia-fully-blocks-whatsapp
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @bourgwick@heads.socialif i owned this brand name, i'd be monetizing it so much harder than they are.
@nemobis@mamot.frI noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHispanic icons who owned Super Bowl halftime befor... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47797741/super-bowl-half-show-history-hispanic-performers
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://c.im/@BBC/116253602921572678
FYI: Michigan has a DIY form of this in law, in that everything below the historical high water level on any of our Great Lakes has a special status effectively making it state-owned, with a universal public walking easement.
In pr…
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialThere's a tool named #WinSlop that gets rid of any and all unpleasantries #microslop seems to shovel upon us. Alas, there is a notice on the github page of the project that the domain winslop.com is not owned or operated by the creator of WinSlop.
@ncoca@social.coopWow, #BlueBottle #Coffee is now #Chinese-owned. I used to live near its tiny initial coffee stall in SF (and even then thought it was overrated).
The coffee chain that stole its idea from a
@candide@vis.socialAt the end of last year, my refurbished Pixel 5a died suddenly (due to a known chip issue), and I went with a used Pixel 9 to replace it.
Every phone I've owned as an adult has been used/refurbished, and I try to hold on to my phones until the wheels fall off. I'm always a bit behind on releases, so every "new" device feels like an improvement.
This is the first time that I've felt like my "new" phone is a regression from the previous one.
@fgraver@hcommons.socialFollow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…
@benb@osintua.euSerbia's Russian-owned oil refinery to resume operations in mid-January, Vucic says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/serbias-russianowned-oil-refinery-to.html
@stf@chaos.socialRE: https://infosec.exchange/@bontchev/115881191119974352
creates the dilemma: shall i try to save earth and reduce my fossil fuel consumption and live in a corpo-owned panopticon prison, or shall it all just burn down?
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’m so tired of YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, and all the rest. Not because I’m exhausted, but because I can finally see what’s behind it all. The smiling faces, the endless content, the fake “authenticity” are just products built to keep us quiet. Everything is soaked in the same capitalist lie that tells us to keep consuming so we don’t have time to wonder what life could be if we actually owned it together.
I’d rather spend my time learning from people who fought back, who still fight ba…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC approves the sale of certain local broadcast TV stations from Tegna to Nexstar, granting a waiver from a cap limiting how many stations can be owned (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/fcc-approves-nexstar-tegna-merger-1236760998/…
@mlncn@social.coop
@mela@zusammenkunft.netIt's Mage session time again:
The Chorister tries to build a Faraday cage out of nothing to help the Virtual Adept find out if two phones owned by Sisters of Hippolyta have been influenced by a techno mage.
He fails and is hit by a paradox flaw.
Since the Chorister was using a prayer about Mana, it starts raining Tamale.
When the Chorister want's to try a second time, a Sisters of Hippolyta offers to help:
SoH: »I'm aiming to get Nachos and Salsa w…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgyikes TIL New Scientist is owned by the Daily Mail ugh
@axbom@axbom.me @metacurity@infosec.exchangeRE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/115893375901734833
The U.S. companies whose cybersecurity software has been banned include Broadcom-owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, while the Israeli companies include Check Point Software Technol…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…
@gwire@mastodon.socialIt is funny to me to see the Daily Mail, essentially owned by a hereditary peer, use "nepo baby" to refer to someone with a famous actor parent.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBMG Rights Management, owned by German media group Bertelsmann, sues Anthropic for allegedly using its copyrighted lyrics to train the LLMs that power Claude (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/b
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/dutch-c…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRevealed: Private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/05/revealed-private-jet-owned-by-trump-friend-used-by-ice-to-deport-palestinians-to-west-bank
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p124#a260205p124
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWe see how El Cheato has blocked the opening of the new bridge between Canada and the US in Detroit - apparently in an effort to maintain a flow of bridge toll revenue from a competing bridge owned by a Cheato-buddy.
If I were Canada I might consider retaliation by shutting down the older Cheato-buddy bridge.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialGood. Hopefully it means that they hired a few good admins.
The worst thing to happen to email was providers of other services bundling email at prices less than it should cost to provide high quality service.
It has deprofressionalized email. The pressure on email operations to cost nothing has squeezed out high competence admins and left the largest operations mysterious black boxes to the people who run them.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox-owned podcasting company Red Seat Ventures acquires subscription monetization company Supercast, as it ramps up its podcasting efforts (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/r…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialFollow the money. Could it be that the pre existing bridge, the Ambassador Bridge, is wholly owned and operated by a Trump donor…? 🤔
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-canada?CMP=Share_iOS…
@cdarwin@c.imA Bay Area startup that manufactures drones to tackle wildfires has just signed its first customer, the Aspen Fire Protection District.
The company, Seneca, recently announced that its fleet of five drones (dubbed a “strike team”) would be coming to the famed Colorado ski town this summer,
making Aspen the first wildfire agency in America to add these types of aircraft to its arsenal.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRender, which is positioning itself as an alternative to Salesforce-owned Heroku, raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation, says 4.5M developers use its tools (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/render-raises-100-million-at-1point5-billio…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJeffrey Epstein 'Co-Owned' Palantir Founder's Valar Venture Fund as Palantir Entered UK Government (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260205/p33#a260205p33
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLast Tuesday, a spokesman of Dutch state-owned Gasunie said that the historical low in gas storage filling (11% of capacity) was no problem. But, he added, 'we wouldn't want a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz'.
Now, Gasunie says that the attack came at an unfortunate moment, and that our gas may become very expensive once more.
https://
@paulbusch@mstdn.caCassie, the 13 year old floof owned by my daughter, had a tough week. She spent a full day at the vet for teeth cleaning and has spent 2 days recovering from the anesthetic. She's not looking too pleased right now.
#CatsOfMastadon #Caturday
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCU sues Group Black, a firm created to direct ad dollars to Black-owned and Black-led media, alleging $35.8M in unpaid invoices and guaranteed payments (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/nbcuniversal-sues-group-blac…
@cdarwin@c.imNetflix backs out of bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,
-- giving studios,
HBO, and CNN
to Ellison-owned Paramount
Ellison, whose Paramount already owns major studios, entertainment, and news businesses, has warned of significant job cuts.
His ownership of news network CBS has also attracted controversy
and has largely been seen as a sympathetic turn toward the Trump administration,
with reporting critical of the administration shelved
or facing …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for nine months ending December 31, 2025 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow a cinematic clip of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt made using Seedance spooked Hollywood, drawing condemnation from some and indifference from others (Derrick Bryson Taylor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/movies/tom-c…
@cdarwin@c.imFrom Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets.
But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude,
and officials didn’t kick them out of the country.
“Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,”
said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver
Here’s the history.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialRussia confirms it has blocked WhatsApp, citing Meta's "unwillingness to comply with Russian law", and proposes that Russians switch to the state-owned Max app (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-blocks-me…
@cdarwin@c.imA company owned by the President's family, is seeking approvals from a federal agency over which the President has total control
— including to hire & fire the people granting approvals.
The company, the deal, the entire process is corrupt to the core.
https://bsky.app/profile/vanholle…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA group of five journalists reboots Gourmet as a worker-owned newsletter, after discovering that Condé Nast had let its trademark on the name lapse in 2021 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/media/gourmet-magazine-new…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M monthly active players (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/supercell-revenue-declines-4-to-265bn-in-2025
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260204/p147#a260204p147
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChicago-based restaurant software startup Chowbus raised an $81M Series E led by Prysm Capital and Left Lane Capital; it focuses primarily on Asian restaurants (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/03/11/chowbus-series-e-asian-re…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSky and Disney sign multiyear deal to offer Disney to Sky customers in the UK and Ireland at no extra cost, and Sky will bundle HBO Max, Netflix, and Hayu (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/sky-disney-plus-deal-uk-bundle-netflix-1…
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFilings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@cdarwin@c.imBeamish and Crawford brewery was established in Cork in 1792
and brewed the stout until 2009.
Now the stout is owned by Heineken but is still brewed in Cork city.
“The taste is much more appealing to me than Guinness,” he said.
“Beamish is creamier and fuller.”
“The natural trend is to start with Guinness,
move to Murphy’s
and then Beamish.”
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMoffettNathanson: YouTube became the world's largest media company in 2025 with an estimated $62B in revenue, passing $60.9B earned by Disney's media business (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@cdarwin@c.imThe automotive industry’s big bet on a rapid adoption of electric vehicles — in the United States —continues to unwind.
Today, Stellantis, which owns brands like Jeep and Dodge, as well as Fiat, Peugeot, and others,
announced that it has “reset” its business to adapt to lower EV sales, which comes with a rather painful $26.2 billion (€22.2 billion) write-down.
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was more bullish on electrification.
Even the US had relatively ambitiou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/supercell-c…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC Director General Tim Davie says the broadcaster will stay on X to try to counteract a flood of global misinformation, despite pressure to leave (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts
to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States.
⚠️But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important inside connection.
At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by
⚡️Cerberus Capital Management,
a private equity firm founded by billionaire Steve
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBlock Communications announces that The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will cease publication May 3; the closure will not affect its sister newspaper, The Toledo Blade (Mark Walker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/business/media/pittsburgh-po…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay delays its IPO roadshow that was scheduled to launch Monday, as markets were rattled by the strikes in Iran (Echo Wang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap launches a wholly-owned subsidiary called Specs Inc. for its upcoming AR glasses, in a bid to facilitate minority investment and offer distinct branding (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869210/snap-specs-smart-ar-glasses-new-subsi…
