American online streaming service, Netflix has reported an increase in the number of subscribers totaling 203.6 million subscribers, making a profit of $2,761.4 million in 2020 showing about 47.9 percent increase when compared to 2019. However, the company recorded a loss of 7.6 percent ($542.15 million) in the last quarter, a decrease of 31 percent when compared to the previous quarter. Rival streaming companies, Hulu and Disney Plus have proved popular with Disney accumulating 90 million subscribers from its launch date and boasts to have about 260 million by 2024.

Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Electric and self-driving car, Tesla and Aerospace manufacturing company, SpaceX, Elon Musk has become the richest person in the world with a net worth of $185 billion, passing Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos who held the position since 2017. Musk’s Tesla recorded a surge in its value, reaching a market value of $700billion, making the company worth more than Ford, Hyundai, Toyota, Volkswagen, and General Motors combined. The Entrepreneur’s wealth increased over the past year, seeing his wealth increase from $27 billion in early 2020 and making a dramatic turnaround from Tesla’s rapid cash burn.

WhatsApp has announced that from January 1st, 2021, millions of smartphones worldwide would no longer be able to support the latest version of the messaging app. The company has scheduled an update of the app which would require users to either update their mobile devices’ Operating System (OS) or purchase a new smartphone. According to the company, any phone not running at least Android OS 4.0.3, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, or any iPhone not using iOS9 or the latest would no longer be able to access or operate WhatsApp. iPhone 4S to iPhone 6S were released before iOS9, but owners have the option of updating their operating system but all iPhone models between iPhone 1 to iPhone 4 would be unable to update to iOS9.

The Google News Initiative has launched a $3 million global open fund “COVID-19 Vaccine Counter Misinformation Open Fund” to curb misinformation of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Millions of users of the popular messaging app, WhatsApp have started migrating to other messaging apps such as Telegram and Signal following the new privacy policy of WhatsApp.

A federal Judge had yesterday struck out the electronic giant, Apple’s case against cybersecurity startup Corellium in a suit which has implication for researchers who find software bugs and vulnerability.

TikTok owner, ByteDance has announced the launch of an electronic payment service connected to Douyin, the popular short video app. The e-payment called ‘Douyin Pay’ is aimed to “supplement existing major payment options, and to ultimately enhance user experience”, functioning similarly to the Chinese e-wallet, WeChat Pay and Alipay.

Outgoing president of the United Staes of America (USA) Donald Trump has been banned from using the services of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter days after a pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol while trying to disrupt Congress’ certification of Joe Biden as the President-Elect.

British National radio station, talkRADIO has on Tuesday been removed from popular Google-owned video-sharing services, YouTube, kicking the radio station’s channel off its platform. In a statement on twitter, talkRADIO said, “We urgently await a detailed response from  Google/YouTube about the nature of the breach that has led to our channel being removed from its platform.” "TalkRadio is an Ofcom-licenced and regulated broadcaster, and has robust editorial controls in place, taking care to balance debate.  "We regularly interrogate government data and we have controls in place, use verifiable sources and give space to careful selection of voices and opinions."

Hanson Robotics, the company behind the popular humanoid robot ‘Sophia the robot’ has announced plans to mass-produce robots by the end of 2021. The company, based in Hong Kong said four models of the humanoid including Sophia would begin rolling out of factories in the first half of the year.

Lee Jae-Yong, the Executive Vice Chairman of the South Korean tech giant, Samsung, has bagged a two and half years jail term today over corruption charges, the ruling that would deprive him of his decision making power.

American Social network firm, Reddit has on Sunday disclosed that it would buy a short-video platform, Dubsmash, expanding to compete with Chinese-owned TikTok. According to Reuters, Reddit said the terms of the acquisition were based on a combination of cash and stock.