YouTube on Thursday elaborated on its blockchain and metaverse plans for 2022, saying it could harness the emerging technologies to cut fraud, and offer a more social viewing experience for gaming content.
Leading French online marketplace creator, Mirakl, announced that it has passed the $100 million mark in annual recurring revenue, and boosted its business volume by 47%.
Two top European shippers warned on Wednesday freight costs were likely to remain high well into this year, offering no relief to customers including the world's biggest retailers.
The key reason for this possible disruption to Meta’s services is the difficulty that more stringent privacy protection rules would cause to the customisation of online advertising, Meta’s main source of revenue.
The metaverse will open up more ways for businesses to make money, an executive from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc told an advertising conference on Monday.
Meta's shares plunged more than 20% late on Wednesday after the social media company posted a weaker-than-expected forecast, blaming Apple's privacy changes and increased competition for users from rivals like TikTok.
Alphabet's internet advertising, cloud computing and hardware businesses helped the Google owner soundly beat Wall Street targets for the holiday quarter, sending shares up as much as 9% in after-hours trading.
German retail sales dropped more than expected in December, data showed on Tuesday, as tighter coronavirus-related restrictions hurt trade in textiles, clothing, shoes and leather goods.
German retailers should be able to increase nominal revenues by an average of 3% in 2022, but price-adjusted sales will likely stagnate due to high inflation, industry association HDE said on Tuesday.
Since October, Facebook has renamed the company, articulated a vision of the internet where people can digitally connect through virtual-reality avatars, and helped trigger the metaverse investment craze.
French shipping giant CMA CGM said it had struck a preliminary agreement to acquire a majority stake in French delivery firm Colis Prive, as it continues to build up its logistics business.
French sports retailer Decathlon named 45-year old Barbara Martin Coppola, a former executive at companies such as IKEA and Google, as its new global chief executive.
PVH’s Tommy Hilfiger has named the winners of its third Fashion Frontier Challenge, the dedicated global programme designed to “find and support ideas that lead to a more inclusive fashion landscape”.
France's CNIL data privacy watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Google 150 million euros ($169.38 million) and Facebook Ireland 60 million, saying the U.S. technology giants had made it difficult to refuse cookies.
Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings Ltd has raised $3 billion by selling shares in Sea, which owns e-commerce firm Shopee, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
