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...
The battel between Google and Apple have now been pushed to a whole new level. With Google launching their music store , which for now is available only in the US. Google has singed-up with most record labels in the US expect Warner Music. The reason Google's store is not available outside of the US is because they have not signed deals with music labels outside of the US. Song prices range from 69c to 99c and $1.29, the same prices you find on Apple's iTunes. Not having a tie-up with Warner Music will mean that music from band's like Led Zeppelin will not be available. Music from the store will be available to Andriod devices running version 2.2 and above and to help get the service off the ground one free song will be available for download everyday. In an official post regarding the service Google had this to say: The store offers more than 13 million tracks from artists on Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and the global independent rights agency...