Category: Business News

Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout Over Trump Posts

Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout Over Trump Posts

Facebook Inc. employees staged a virtual walkout Monday and some publicly denounced CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to leave up a post from President Trump about the recent social unrest, comments they believe violated the company’s rules about inciting violence. Over the weekend, more than a dozen employees spoke out on Twitter against Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision…

U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to Solve

U.S.-China Disputes Growing Harder to Solve

President Donald Trump’s decision to downgrade relations with Hong Kong shows how his clashes with China increasingly feature ideological differences that are harder to resolve than the trade dispute that has primarily defined the administration’s approach to the relationship with its biggest rival. The president on Friday said China’s decision to impose a national security…

Tencent in Talks to Buy Warner Music Stake

Tencent in Talks to Buy Warner Music Stake

Tencent Holdings Ltd. is in discussions to buy a stake in Warner Music Group as part of the record company’s initial public offering, a key test for a new-issue market that has been hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. The Chinese internet giant is discussing an investment of $200 million ahead of an IPO that is…

Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Social Media

Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Social Media

WASHINGTON—President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday seeking to limit the broad legal protection that federal law currently provides to social-media and other online platforms, a move that is expected to draw immediate court challenges. The order seeks to make it easier for federal regulators to hold companies such as Twitter…

Fire Force Season 2 Blazes Ahead with New Director and Theme Performer

  This summer’s return of Fire Force is blazing ahead, and most recently we’ve had two additions to the crew: a new director and a new theme song performer.   Taking up the fiery mantle of director is Tatsuma Minamikawa, who will also be handling series composition for season 2. Minamikawa served as episode director for…