Paramount seeks streaming partner. Warner Bros. Discover is interested

Paramount seeks streaming partner. Warner Bros. Discover is interested

The Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California, US on Monday, April 29, 2024.  Eric Thayer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Paramount Global is holding talks with other entertainment companies about merging its Paramount+ streaming service with an existing platform. If it reaches a deal, it may kick off a new wave of streaming partnerships that … Read more

Supreme Court punts social media moderation cases to lower courts

Supreme Court punts social media moderation cases to lower courts

Chris Marchese (L), director of the NetChoice Litigation Center, looks on as Matt Schruers (C), president and CEO of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, 2024. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images The Supreme Court on Monday wiped existing … Read more

Here are our top 3 and bottom 3 stocks during a divergent second quarter

Here are our top 3 and bottom 3 stocks during a divergent second quarter

It was another largely great quarter for the stock market — completing a strong first half of the year for the Dow Jones Industrial Average , the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq , all trading around record highs. The Nasdaq was the big winner of the second quarter, adding 8.26% over the past … Read more

Parliament to grill big tech firms on social media impacts

Parliament to grill big tech firms on social media impacts

Four of the internet’s biggest names are expected to face tough questions in parliament about the impact of social media. Executives from Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat are scheduled to appear before the Social Media and Australian Society inquiry on Friday. Questions are expected to focus on harmful and illegal content on digital platforms, age … Read more

YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt

YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt

It’s been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet’s YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn’t really know what to do with it. YouTube, which effectively invented user-generated content, claims a daunting share of overall media consumption. And it’s no longer just dominating the internet, it’s dominating the living room, too. YouTube made up 9.7% of … Read more

Europe risks falling behind US and China on AI: Prince Constantijn

Europe risks falling behind US and China on AI: Prince Constantijn

Prince Constantijn is special envoy to Techleap, a Dutch startup accelerator. Patrick Van Katwijk | Getty Images AMSTERDAM — Europe is at risk of falling behind the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence as it focuses on regulating the technology, according to Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands. “Our ambition seems to be limited to being … Read more

Trump allies accuse CNN of bias ahead of presidential debate

Trump allies accuse CNN of bias ahead of presidential debate

You can watch the CNN Presidential Debate live on NewsNation on June 27. Join us for “Debate Night with Chris Cuomo” at 8p/7C for pre-debate analysis. Find your channel here. Get fact–based, unbiased news coverage 24/7 with the NewsNation app.  (NewsNation) —The long-awaited rematch debate between Democratic President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a Republican. is just days away. … Read more

Brother of Julian Assange breaks silence after 14-year legal battle ends in freedom for Wikileaks founder

Brother of Julian Assange breaks silence after 14-year legal battle ends in freedom for Wikileaks founder

Julian Assange is set to land on Australian soil as a free man after more than a decade holed up in a British high-security jail and in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for exposing US war crimes. His brother Gabriel Shipton spoke to 7NEWS chief reporter Chris Reason from France on Tuesday, opening up about … Read more

Paramount+ to increase prices for its streaming plans

Paramount+ to increase prices for its streaming plans

Paramount Global is hiking the price of its flagship streaming service as the company looks to turn around its business. The company said Monday it will raise the price of the Paramount+ with Showtime plan by $1 to $12.99 a month, and the price of its Paramount+ Essential option will increase by $2 to $7.99 … Read more

Inquiry into social media: Aussie media bosses put ‘toxic’ Meta in the firing line over ‘blackmail threat’

Inquiry into social media: Aussie media bosses put ‘toxic’ Meta in the firing line over ‘blackmail threat’

The heads of Australia’s three biggest media companies have taken aim at Meta for “threatening to blackmail” the country, warning journalism jobs will be on the chopping block if the social media behemoth doesn’t renew its commercial deals. Appearing before a parliamentary committee placing tech giants under the microscope, the trio lashed social media more … Read more