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Competition watchdog to investigate Meta terms for publishers and businesses
The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Facebook owner Meta over whether it is imposing “exploitative terms” on publishers and advertisers which breach competition rules. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Meta's…
A Guide To Publishing In Research Journals For Postgraduate Professionals
Dr. Habib Al Souleiman is a Professor at SIU Swiss International University VBNN and a published author in top-tier Elsevier journals. In the landscape of higher education and professional research, publishing in a Scopus-indexed journal is…
Meta Faces U.K. Antitrust Probe Over Publisher Content Use
Platforms faces an investigation from the U.K.'s competition regulator over potential new business terms that would allow the company to collect content from publishers to power its own products such as artificial intelligence tools. The…
Call of Duty publisher apologizes for using real footage of Itaewon crowd crush
The makers behind the Call of Duty video game apologized Friday for using real footage of the deadly 2022 Seoul crowd crush in its latest installment of the game and agreed to remove the footage. A short clip showing a paramedic performing CPR on a…
Publishing Briefs: Peermusic Acquires 120 Publishing, Karen Hamilton to Lead New Division
BMG Publishing celebrated Billboard Latin Music Week with an event at Dante's HiFi, which included a panel discussion featuring Noah Goldstein, Elliot Kozel and Jake Alexander Miller, nominated by Leonor C. Suarez. — Ariel King Sony Music…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
By Thomson Reuters Oct 30, 2026 | 7:16 AM LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and…
Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face.
Woe is Google. After it starved out publishers with its AI features, it's now getting a taste of its own medicine. Shares of its parent company Alphabet took an over 11 percent nosedive on Wednesday, after it disclosed that its AI search features…
My fight to save the novel from 'progressive' publishers
When Miguel de Cervantes published Don Quixote in two parts in 1605 and 1615, the modern novel was born. One of its defining features was the autonomous individual as the heart of the story. Through printed words on a page, the reader could do…
UK's CMA opens investigation into Meta's terms for publishers and advertisers
30 Oct 2026 07:16PM (Updated: 30 Oct 2026 07:52PM) LONDON, Oct 30: Britain's competition regulator on Friday said it has opened an investigation into whether Meta was imposing exploitative terms on publishers and advertisers to use their content to…
News Publishers Demand Meta Stop Using Their Content Without Permission
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… News publishers are demanding that Meta let them block the company from collecting content from their websites without losing access to Facebook and Instagram, escalating a fight over who controls and…
Hackers Publish Work Details of 41,000 Homeland Security Employees
Names, job titles, office locations, and phone numbers for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors were published online Wednesday by a transparency nonprofit. The nonprofit says a hacktivist group, meaning…
Publisher of Call Of Duty video game apologises over use of Itaewon crowd crush footage
Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments Published Oct 30, 2026, 06:32 PM SEOUL – US publisher Activision has formally apologised for using footage from the 2022 Itaewon crowd crush in its latest Call Of Duty: Modern…
AAA publishers are abusing early access,' Denis Dyack says, and that's making things harder for everyone else
'AAA publishers are abusing early access, skewing player expectations in such a way that it heavily disadvantages smaller independent developers.' Denis Dyack, known for his work on games including Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness:…
Government unable to publish monthly homeless figures due to public sector pay dispute
THE DEPARTMENT OF Housing will not publish its monthly homelessness figures today, saying industrial action has left it without the data needed to compile the report. The department said it had not received returns from all nine regional lead…
Meta under investigation over plans to 'steal' publishers' content
Facebook owner Meta is under investigation by the UK competition watchdog over plans to ‘steal' publishers' content to train its AI models, it emerged today. Amid a growing clamour for action, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said…
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