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Music streaming platform JOOX sees usage spike across Southeast Asia
Lockdowns and travel restrictions prompted by the new coronavirus have been a boon to Tencent’s JOOX music streaming platform, driving a whopping 50% growth to its karaoke se...
Zoom pulls in more than 200 million daily video users during worldwide lockdowns
Zoom’s daily users ballooned to more than 200 million in March from a previous maximum total of 10 million, the video conferencing app’s boss Eric Yuan said on Wednesda...
Streaming: Netflix leads on downloads, but YouTube Kids grabs more hours
Netflix led rivals YouTube, Amazon Prime and Disney+ with over 59 million installs in the first quarter of 2020, but more time was spent on YouTube’s Kids service as usage bo...
Apple doubles China donations for COVID-19 recovery efforts
Apple more than doubled its donation to China’s efforts to fight COVID-19 to over 50 million yuan ($7 million), CEO Tim Cook posted on Weibo on Wednesday, weeks after the iPh...
Tencent-backed online education firm Yuanfudao raises $1 billion in new round
Chinese online education platform Yuanfudao said on Tuesday it has raised $1 billion in a new financing round, led by Tencent Holdings and private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Gro...
Facebook appoints Robert Kimmitt as lead independent director
Facebook has named the former deputy secretary to the US Treasury, Robert Kimmitt, to its board as lead independent director, effective immediately.Â
HOOQ, the Singtel-backed streaming service files for liquidation
HOOQ Digital, a video streaming service majority owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, said it was filing for liquidation as it had not been able to grow sufficiently to provi...
Under lockdown, teenagers turn to TikTok for life hacks and laughs
Millions of American teenagers shut up in their homes and receiving their education online are turning for morale support and comic relief to each other – via immensely popul...
Home-bound users fume as video apps do not sync with TVs
Kat Volpe laid out an exercise mat and tried to sync her iPhone with her big screen TV for a fitness class webcast on Instagram last week during New York’s coronavirus lockdo...
Spotify launches music relief project to help artists
Spotify Technology SA said on Wednesday it had launched a COVID-19 music relief project to raise funds for musicians as the coronavirus pandemic grounds life to a halt in most coun...
Mexican Senate to vote on proposal to compel Netflix, Amazon Prime to boost local content
Mexican senators are set to vote Tuesday on a proposal that would force streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon to ensure national content makes up at least 30% of their catalo...
Netflix, Facebook to cut data traffic in India to ease network congestion
Streaming service Netflix Inc and social media giant Facebook Inc said on Tuesday they would reduce the amount of data their services use to ease congested telecoms networks in Ind...
‘Can you hear me?’ Video conferencing complicates EU coordination
The European Union’s decision-making process is being sorely tested by video conferencing during the coronavirus pandemic, EU officials say, with one calling it a “cata...
Facebook lowers video quality in Latin America, following Europe
Facebook Inc will lower video streaming quality on its platform and on Instagram in Latin America, replicating measures adopted in Europe, to ease network congestion in a region th...