Instagram, which the tech giant acquired in 2012 for $1 billion, has been viewed as an antidote to slowing growth at Facebook, with revenue from ads on Instagram increasingly crucial to Meta
On Thursday, the studio saw its global streaming subscriber base for Starz and Starzplay Arabia grow to 19.7 million for the three months ending Dec. 31
Newly renamed Meta is investing heavily in its futuristic “metaverse” project, but for now, relies on advertising revenue for nearly all its income. So when it posted sharply higher costs but gave a weak revenue forecast late Wednesday, investors got spooked — and knocked almost $200 billion off the valuation of the company formerly known as Facebook.
Digital connectivity in North Korea recently took a hit as the country was seen suffering from repeated outages of its few websites. The experts have been trying to figure out the reason behind this for the past two weeks.
Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Anurag Singh Thakur fielded multiple questions in the Rajya Sabha on several issues like the New Tariff Order (NTO) 2.0, manipulation of TV ratings, transfer of TV channel licences by regional channels, merger of four film divisions, measures taken by the ministry to ensure that OTT platforms are sensitive to India's racial and religious diversity and action against news channels that are promoting anti-India content.
At least 26 per cent of people surf the internet while watching Television, revealed Axis My India CSI Survey for February, thus opening deeper conversations on rising multi-screen user behaviour and scope of competitive advertising among different platforms. The survey covered as many as 10, 525 people across different states via Computer-Aided Telephonic Interviews.
"We are looking at deepening the process of ease of doing business, essentially compliance. Last year, 87 compliances were done away with. A number of other licenses, both wireless as well as wireline, need to be further simplified."
The company said that the price of its annual membership will rise by $20 to $139, while monthly memberships will rise by $2 per month to $14.99. The company cited all of the additions to Prime since it last raised prices in 2018 in explaining the rationale.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended the deadline for implementation of the new tariff order (NTO 2.0) to 1 June from 1 April this year.
The number of accounts, websites and URLs stood at blocked during 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 stood at 2799, 3603, 9849 and 6096 respectively Chandrasekhar added.