January

Karissa Bell / Engadget: The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally — The letter, also signed by CrowdTangle's former CEO, claims shutting it down is a “direct threat” to researchers' work Karissa Bell / Engadget: The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally …

EV registrations were up 15% in the US in January. Although Ford and GM’s EV registrations slipped, Rivian (RIVN) and Hyundai saw some of the biggest growth. Tesla still leads the pack Electric vehicles accounted for 7.8% of new US light-vehicle registrations in January, up from 7.1% in Jan 2022. That’s also up from 7.7% in 2023. According to S&P Global Mobility registration data (via Automotive News), the growth was uneven across the competition. The data is significant as not all…

Denver’s housing market surged in February as the snow melted and temperatures climbed. More sellers opted to list their homes, the median sale price increased, and the number of days on market dropped, according to the monthly trends report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. “The days when sellers waited for their spring gardens to bloom before listing their homes for sale are now long gone. The February weather may have said ‘winter,’ but the market said, ‘spring,’” said Colleen Covell, an association market…

Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks — The Chinese company kicked off a new round of share buybacks, offering $170.81 a share to current employees Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks — The Chinese…

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google GPay rose almost 6% — - Paytm loses usage even before any disruption to its systems — Services of Walmart, Google capitalize on Paytm's troubles Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: NPCI data: UPI transactions processed by Paytm fell 14% to $19.9B from January 2024 after RBI curbs, while PhonePe rose nearly 7% and Google…

In 1994, Gregg Alexander got into his blue Ford Mustang to go out clubbing, but the old car wouldn’t start. “I had a moment of annoyance that I couldn’t go to the house clubs in Detroit,” he remembers. So he reached for the acoustic guitar in the back, channelling his emotion into a song beginning “It’s murder on the dancefloor, but you’d better not kill the groove.”“You know how Paul McCartney originally sang about scrambled eggs in Yesterday?” he chuckles. “‘Murder on the dancefloor’ wasn’t anything deep from my…

Image Source : FILE Why did WhatsApp ban over 67L bad accounts from India in January WhatsApp, a Meta-owned instant messaging platform banned more than 67 lakh bad accounts from India in January, in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The move was taken between January 1-31, the company banned 6,728,000 accounts. About 1,358,000 of these banned accounts were…

Image Source : FILE Representational Image Meta Monthly Compliance Report: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, disclosed that it eliminated over 17.8 million pieces of harmful content from Facebook and more than 4.8 million from Instagram in India during January 2024. User reports and grievance mechanism In January, Facebook received 29,548…

It has been over a month since the launch of the Galaxy S24, but it was stuck on the July 2023 Google Play system update. However, the phones in the new lineup have finally started getting the Google Play system update worldwide. If you have a Galaxy S24 series phone, you can now check for the latest update. Galaxy S24 gets January 2024 Google Play system update at long last Google developed the Play System update to roll out critical updates, bug fixes, and patches without requiring an update initiated by the smartphone…

Tattered Cover lost $340,000 last month and expects to remain in the red this month, a fiscal shortcoming that arrives as the bookseller is trying to chart a course to profitability. The bankrupt company took in $630,000 in January — more than it had projected it would — but spent $970,000, according to a monthly update it filed Feb. 21 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. That same report projects a $110,000 loss for February. “This is a seasonal business,” CEO Brad Dempsey said in an interview Monday. “Our sales essentially…