On first look, it may seem odd that one of the largest timeshare operators in the country is now the owner of Travel + Leisure, a glossy tome dedicated to luxury travel. But for Wyndham Destinations, which announced the $100 million purchase of the publication--the only monthly travel magazine still printing in the U.S.--this week,...
YouTube further responded to Wednesday's attack on the U.S. Capitol by moving up the end of a grace period for videos containing misinformation about the election results. The Google-owned video site joined Facebook and Twitter in removing a video Wednesday in which outgoing President Donald Trump mixed in baseless claims about election fraud with a...
Ecommerce platform Shopify has permanently banned two online storefronts selling official Donald Trump merchandise in response to the unprecedented events in Washington on Wednesday. The sites, Shop.DonaldJTrump.com and TrumpStore.com, were unavailable as of roughly 11 a.m. ET on Thursday. "Based on recent events, we have determined that the actions by President Donald J. Trump violate...
Key Insights TikTok introduced its first-ever augmented reality effect powered by the LiDAR scanner on Apple's iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. LiDAR stands for light detection and ranging. The effect provides users of the video creation application with a New Year's Eve-type experience, counting down from five before filling the room where...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that President Donald Trump will not have access to his Facebook or Instagram accounts until he is out of office on Jan. 20. The move comes after significant internal and external pressure on social media companies to take decisive action against the president for appearing to incite an insurrection...
Twitter has locked down President Trump's account for 12 hours, and warned that it could result in a permanent ban. Facebook has placed a 24-hour block on his account for two violations. The lockdowns follow a brutally historic day in the nation's capital. As a joint session of Congress gathered to ceremonially count the 2020...
Snap Inc. introduced its revamped Global Partner Solutions program Wednesday, placing partners into two distinct categories--Strategic Partners and Certified Partners--and incorporating companies that were in its Creative Partners Program. Snap described Strategic Partners as companies that develop specialized technology using the Snapchat Marketing API (application-programming interface) to provide advanced, differentiated ad buying solutions to help...