In the span of just 48 hours this week, two separate juries in two different US states delivered verdicts that could reshape the entire social media industry — not because of the dollar amounts involved, but because of what those verdicts legally establish for the first time. On Tuesday, March 24, a jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram. Less than 24 hours later, on Wednesday, March 25, a jury in Los Angeles found both Meta and Google (YouTube) liable for engineering addiction in young users — finding them negligent in the design of their platforms and awarding a further $6 million in damages. Two days. Two states. Two juries. Both pointing at the same conclusion: that Big Tech can no longer hide behind the legal shields it has relied on for nearly three decades. This is the story of what happened, why it matters far beyond the headline numbers, and what comes next for the s...
Apple has confirmed that is has bought Lala . The music company that offers music streaming. Based on cloud computing. The company came to the fore front when Google used it's service to offer one song streaming for free on its search results. Lala did not charge for this service. Lala being the No.1 retailer in the music streaming business. ""The idea of paying 99 cents a track to fill my iPod – I don't need that anymore," says Ted Cohen, a managing partner at TAG Strategic, a music industry consulting firm. "That era is over." Lala differs from Pandora and iTunes in that it let's you pay to listen to songs at 10 cents a song. You do not need to buy the song. Another notable feature of Lala is that it has a "Vault" which let's u store songs and listen to it later. With the integration of Lala, Apple may Lala's social features to iTunes . This is a service that may play the role of the Radio in how music is found and popularized...