Kurt Wagner

4 days ago | bloomberg.com | Kurt Wagner |Brad Stone

Bloomberg News is closely following developments in the Middle East after the US bombed Iran over the weekend. Find links to the coverage below. Plus: Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Brad Stone and tech reporter Kurt Wagner sat down at the Cannes Lions event with the bosses of Omnicom and IPG to get their take on advertising and AI. Also, Tom Orlik runs the math on debt reduction, and Chinese lipstick and mascara find a new market. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Kurt Wagner |Alexandra Levine

TikTok, which entered the US market in 2016, has 170 million users in the country, and the platform’s US business has been valued as high as $50 billion. (Bloomberg) -- One of the first actions President Donald Trump took at the outset of his second presidency was granting a stay of execution for TikTok. Two and a half months later, he granted a second, and on June 18, he promised a third. Under a law passed by Congress in 2024, the popular video app was facing a nationwide ban starting Jan.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Kurt Wagner

A Meta sign. Photographer David Paul Morris/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc., the owner of Facebook and Instagram, is pushing deeper into AI-generated advertisements in a bid to make it cheaper and simpler for marketers to craft their messages. On Tuesday, Meta announced an updated image-to-video ad tool, which lets marketers use artificial intelligence to turn product pictures into multi-scene video ads.

1 week ago | infobae.com | Kurt Wagner

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc. comenzará a mostrar anuncios dentro de su servicio de mensajería WhatsApp, lo que abrirá una nueva fuente de ingresos mientras la empresa realiza importantes inversiones en inteligencia artificial y otros proyectos a largo plazo. Los anuncios aparecerán en la pestaña “Novedades” de WhatsApp, una sección de la aplicación independiente de la bandeja de entrada y las conversaciones privadas de los usuarios.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Kurt Wagner

Meta Platforms Inc. comenzará a mostrar anuncios dentro de su servicio de mensajería WhatsApp, lo que abrirá una nueva fuente de ingresos mientras la empresa realiza importantes inversiones en inteligencia artificial y otros proyectos a largo plazo. Los anuncios aparecerán en la pestaña “Novedades” de WhatsApp, una sección de la aplicación independiente de la bandeja de entrada y las conversaciones privadas de los usuarios.