In the autumn of 2023, as the warm summer breezes began to fade, Jocelyn Strauber, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation, detected a distinct chill emanating from the office of Mayor Eric Adams. Strauber had been nominated for the job by Adams. But as the head of the agency charged with investigating […]

The post Adams Hired Her. She Probed Him. Mamdani Let Her Leave. appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

Just over a year after it briefly disappeared from app stores, TikTok in the US is now part of a new entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. With approval from both the US and China closing on the schedule laid out in December, ByteDance's ownership of the new joint venture is now only 19.9 percent […]

Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in any way, it probably won't be able to verify those videos you see on TikTok that look like they're from […]

In what world does Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake get canceled amid corporate restructuring and yet BG&E2 does not? "Beyond Good & Evil 2 remains a priority for us in the context of our strategy centered around Open World Adventures," an unnamed Ubisoft spokesperson told Kotaku and Insider Gaming. The original Beyond […]

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates  —  TikTok on Thursday closed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors …