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Details of alleged collusion between Google and Facebook to squash competition in the online ad space are set to be made public this week, a federal judge has ordered.

Columbus Day sales are waning in popularity among retailers, and not for the reason some people may think.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Saturday a mandate for large retailers to keep a gender-neutral aisle for children’s toys.

Facebook has several ideas in mind for how to better serve teens and protect them from known harms of social media, after a former employee disclosed documents showing that the company had been aware of how a significant percentage of young users face negative effects from using Instagram, which Facebook owns.

Taiwan's TSMC and Japan's Sony Group Corp are considering jointly building a chip factory in Japan, with the government ready to pay for some of the investment of about 800 billion yen ($7.15 billion), the Nikkei reported on Friday.

Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday its third-quarter operating profit likely rose 28% to the highest in three years, helped by rising memory chip prices and display sales for smartphone makers' new flagship launches.

President Biden’s official visit to the Clayco Inc. construction site near Chicago on Thursday comes after the company’s CEO donated more than $137,000 to the president's 2020 campaign.

It's worthwhile to ask about Facebook’s knowing contribution to our world’s problems

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is likely to turn in its best quarterly profit in three years and a record revenue, on rising memory chip prices and brisk sales of its new foldable smartphones, analysts' estimates show.

The NAACP is requesting a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after a whistleblower claimed that the social media giant is not adequately policing hate speech on its platform.

Users were reporting problems with Zoom Monday amid widespread outages from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp social media platforms.

Social media has proven to be a reliable source in the hunt for Brian Laundrie, a fugitive person of interest in the killing of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is close to finalising the construction of a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Williamson County in the U.S. state of Texas, three people with knowledge of the matter said.

Facebook Inc. has come under increasing fire in recent days for its effect on young users and its efforts to create products for them. Inside the company, teams of employees have for years been laying plans to attract preteens that go beyond what is publicly known, spurred by fear that Facebook could lose a new generation of users critical to its future.

Facebook said Monday it will "pause" its work on a kids' version of its photo and video-oriented Instagram app.

Facebook announced Monday that it will pause the release of "Instagram Kids" following the release of the "Facebook Files" and increased scrutiny over the company’s impact on its youngest users.

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., compared Big Tech to Big Tobacco following a report showing Facebook is aware of Instagram’s negative impact on teenagers’ mental health.