July 2024
Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding
A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
May 2024
China’s online ‘Kim Kardashian’ banned for being too ostentatious
The online disappearance last week of Wang Hongquanxing is part of the government’s latest campaign to maintain its dominance over China’s social media culture.
March 2024
Celebrities who mocked Princess of Wales called on to apologise
The princess’s cancer revelation sparked an outpouring of support and has prompted an outcry at some of the nasty conspiracy theories propagated recently.
August 2023
Aussies raid Amazon to build AI search start-up
After an $8 million funding round led by Blackbird, the Marqo founders have poached the tech giant’s scientists and engineers for an AI-powered search engine.
October 2022
Who killed the social media ad boom?
A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt. Inflation, further industry disruption and a privacy crackdown are the main causes.
July 2022
Zuckerberg hunts for TikTok answers as Facebook suffers first revenue fail
Facebook’s historic earnings miss comes as Mark Zuckerberg is trying to reinvent it in the metaverse and copy the success of TikTok with younger users.
January 2022
Matt Damon’s crypto ad is more than just cringeworthy
The fact that even a man known for his philanthropy and keeping a low profile appears susceptible to the lure of crypto makes it all seem more sinister.
August 2020
UK teenager faces extradition over Twitter celebrity hack
Mason Sheppard, a 19-year-old from southern England, was one of three people charged by the US Department of Justice over an alleged cyber scam that saw the accounts of various celebrities hijacked last month.