The Winter Olympics’ ratings plummet: The kickoff event was one of the least-watched opening ceremonies on TV in Olympics history.

Google, Meta find themselves in Europe’s regulatory crosshairs once more: As increased scrutiny drives up the cost of doing business, Big Tech tries to fight back.

Google’s EU antitrust woes multiply: Sweden’s PriceRunner sues Google for skewing search results toward its own shopping service. The move could prompt more legal action from European shopping services.

Investment soared sevenfold in 2021 for UK-based fintechs—here’s why we expect that trend to carry through 2022.

PayPal said the accounts were linked to user acquisition campaigns—here’s what our forecasts say about the firm’s user base.

Bunq ventures into green investing: The Netherlands-based neobank’s product, rolled out in partnership with Birdee, lets customers invest in environmentally and socially conscious companies.

Available to fintechs and consumer brands, the solution lets Q2 tap into a market with great potential and add to its breadth in banking-as-as-service (BaaS).

Boston Fed, MIT hit a digital-dollar research milestone: Their paper on Phase 1 of Project Hamilton explores technical challenges for a US central bank digital currency (CBDC).

TikTok was the No. 1 mobile app in the US last year, with 94.0 million downloads, a 6% increase over 2020. Runners-up Instagram and Snapchat reached 64.0 million downloads and 56.0 million downloads, respectively, meaning the three most downloaded apps in the US were all photo- and video-sharing platforms.

Diversified EV offerings drive Ford forward in 2022: More than 275,000 orders for EVs help Ford grow 4x faster than the overall electrified segment, but can it overcome chip-related delays?

Property developer Simon hopes to make malls into dining destinations: As consumers prioritize flexibility and convenience, mall operators are having to rethink the physical retail experience.

SOC Telemed is getting acquired by a health investment firm. Just last year, it was scoring funding dollars and acquisitions—but competition might have pushed it out.