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Facebook to invest USD 300 million to help local news survive
Unlike earlier investments in the news business, this latest round is distinguished by how it is not tied to Facebook-related products.
Earn after reading: China news app lures with clickbait and cash
A leaderboard shows the top-earning user has raked in more than $50,000.
Facebook to fund trainee local newspaper reporters in Britain
The US company said on Monday it recognised the role it played in how people got their news today.
Google News bug hogging mobile data
The Google News app has a bug and is reportedly using up gigabytes of mobile data in the background.
Not reading news makes you better at predicting what will go viral
Frequent news readers may be bringing to mind idiosyncratic information that's more unique to them.
Publishers reprove Google's interpretation of EU privacy law
The company has also irked publishers by saying that rather than being a processor of data as defined by GDPR, it wants to be a controller.
Facebook ends six-country test that split News Feed in two
The test created two streaming series of posts.
YouTube to categorise governemt-funded news videos
A feature being rolled out in the US displays notices below videos uploaded by news broadcasters which receive government or public money.
Google’s ‘Bulletin’ app will help you report stories
This new tool is still under testing and once launched, it would let people publish local news stories.
Google relaxes rules on free news stories, plans subscription tools
Google’s “first click free” policy ensures that non-subscribers won’t be stifled by paywalls when they click on articles from searches.