July 17, 2023
Call of Duty battle over after Sony deal with Microsoft
Call of Duty will stay on PlayStation in a deal between Sony and Microsoft, ending a fight over its future. It comes after a US judge rejected calls to block Microsoft from taking over games publisher Activision Blizzard. Microsoft's Phil Spencer…
July 10, 2023
Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week
Threads, the social media app aimed at rivaling Twitter, has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days, according to new data. It means Threads, launched by Instagram owner Meta, has beat a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app.…
July 4, 2023
Twitter began to restrict how many tweets its users could read
Elon Musk tweeted that unverified users could read 1,000 tweets, and verified users 10,000 per day. People began to share screengrabs of messages that they'd "exceeded" their daily allowance of tweets. Elon Musk was doing something that seems…
July 1, 2023
Virgin Galactic completes its first commercial flight into space
Galactic 01 carried a crew of six on its roughly 90-minute flight to the edge of space. A rocket was released from a plane at around 50,000ft, its engine then ignited and sent it on a near-vertical climb to around 50 miles above the Earth. The crew…
June 27, 2023
Facebook owner launches virtual reality subscription service
Facebook owner Meta has launched a virtual reality (VR) subscription service as it tries to make that part of its business profitable. Meta says paying users will get access to two new games a month. For the first three months of the year, the…
June 22, 2023
Amazon accused of tricking Prime customers
The US has accused Amazon of tricking customers into signing up for automatically renewing Prime subscriptions and making it difficult to cancel. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the country's consumer rights watchdog, made the claims in a…
June 20, 2023
South Korea crypto-crash king, Do Kwon, jailed
Do Kwon, the cryptocurrency boss behind the $40bn (£31.3bn) collapse of the terraced and Luna tokens, has been sentenced to four months of jail in Montenegro. Mr. Kwon was found guilty of forging official documents. He was arrested in March as he…
June 17, 2023
Twitter sued by music publishers for $250m
A group of 17 music publishers in the US has sued Twitter, claiming the platform enabled copyright violations involving nearly 1,700 songs. The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) is seeking more than $250m (£197.7m) in damages. In a…
June 13, 2023
US moves to block Microsoft’s Activision takeover
Regulators in the US have asked a judge to block Microsoft from completing its $69bn (£56bn) purchase of Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said the deal, which would be the largest in the history of…
June 11, 2023
Facebook owner Meta plans to create Twitter rival
Meta has shown staff plans for a text-based social network designed to compete with Twitter, sources have told the BBC. It could allow users to follow accounts they already follow on Instagram, Meta's image-sharing app. And it could potentially…