As the Asian power's domestic film market mostly thrives, the disappointing box office for Warner Bros.' 'The Batman' and other recent releases suggests a continuing decline in audience enthusiasm for U.S. tentpoles: "China seems to have turned its back on Hollywood."
Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has obtained a new blocking order in the Netherlands targeting 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG, Kickasstorrents and EZTV. The order was issued against the local ISP Delta but, as a result of a blocking agreement, other ISPs will follow suit. The same order will likely trigger Google to take action as well.
When U.S. actress Natalie Morales carried out a Google search for “Latina teen” in 2019, she described in a tweet that all she encountered was pornography.
Gillian Brockell, Video Editor with The Washington Post, wrote in a piece three years ago: “Dear tech companies, I don't want to see pregnancy ads after having a stillbirth”. The piece highlighted how algorithms drive “targeted advertising” on social media and other apps, thanks to third-party cookies.
Bluesky, a company funded by Twitter Inc to develop a new operating standard for social media, on Thursday will name its first three employees, more than two years after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey first announced the initiative, according to a blog post seen by Reuters
Movie theatres, since the reopening after the easing of the third wave of the pandemic, have been with lengthy films which have been cutting into the number of shows possible, in turn, affecting revenue.
TV9 Bharatvarsh, which recently became the most watched Hindi news channel in India, also celebrated its third anniversary on Wednesday
With the emergence of OTT platforms and an open gate for foreign content, Indian audiences are being drawn to fiction and historical shows from afar. There is a big fan following and audience for non-English content, like Korean and Turkish dramas in the country today.
The government does not intend to make social media users' verification mandatory in the view of privacy issue, Minister of State for Electronic and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), an Indian unit of Japan’s Sony Corp, has sent an advisory to distributors of TV channels that the Reference Interconnection Offer (RIO) that was issued under TRAI’s NTO1 regime has been extended till May 31, 2022 as the new tariff regime would come into effect in June.