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[New] Later this year, Spain will introduce a 3 percent digital services tax on the revenue of companies including Facebook and Google.
[New] With Facebook and Google/YouTube, not enough is done to limit the spread of harmful content: Attempts to address taxes and harmful content will gain momentum this year, potentially setting up more tension with the United States.
[New] Thousands of workers from Amazon, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Square, and other tech companies are expected to walk out today as part of a worldwide climate change strike led by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg.
In the year ahead, investors will look for companies that can demonstrate customer loyalty and diverse customer acquisition strategies beyond Facebook - a strategy that applies to existing consumer brand startups as well.
Amazon, Facebook and Google are all expected to increase revenue by more than 16% a year in the three years from 2019 to 2021.
France's central bank will next year launch a call for projects to develop a digital currency, as concern grows among EU governments over new currencies planned by Facebook and others.
Facebook reportedly has high hopes that Libra will become the foundation for a new financial system free of control by Wall Street power brokers and central banks.
While Facebook has tried to crack down on the sharing of hate speech in Myanmar, the social media giant could take more steps to fight disinformation in one of the most toxic online environments in the world.
Eight tech titans including Google, Facebook and Amazon dominate the global advertising industry and will spend £25bn on advertising this year.
2019 will be the year where hyper scale infrastructure companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook will increase the investments in custom chips based on field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuits.
For the first time ever next year, Facebook, Google, YouTube and other online platforms are expected to soak up the majority of advertising dollars.
In terms of monetization per user, Facebook leads all other social media platforms: This year, Facebook (excluding Instagram) will make £83.27 per user, compared with £49 ($65.33) Instagram, £15.85 ($21.13) Twitter and £8.22 ($10.96) Snapchat.
US digital media owners - a company that sells advertising space or time online to advertisers, such as Facebook, Google, and publications like Vox - are expected to receive $106 billion in ad spending this year.
With a single global token, Facebook could have leapfrogged China by pushing out its currency to almost 2.5 times the user base of WeChat or Alipay overnight.
Google will control 37.2% of online ad spend in the U.S. this year, followed by Facebook with 22.1%.
Social Media giant, Facebook has announced that it will launch its digital currency named Libra in 2020.
Libra, the digital coin, due to debut in 2020, will integrate with Facebook services and will provide the asset required for e-commerce transactions on its platform and beyond.
Early in the year 2018, Facebook issued a ban on cryptocurrency ads on its platform due to the fear of users being scammed.
Facebook is planning to launch Libra next year, with some suggesting it could strengthen the US dollar's dominance and sabotage China's ambition for the yuan.
Amazon is expected to control about 63% of the smart speaker market this year while Google is expected to capture 31%.
Global regulators will question Facebook on Monday about its Libra cryptocurrency, amid concerns from European Union governments over the threat the digital currency poses to financial stability.
There will be 2.94 billion monthly social network users globally in 2019: There will be 2.94 billion monthly social network users globally in 2019: Facebook is still in the lead by a long shot, but Instagram will gain the most users this year, with its user base growing by 11.4%.

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Last updated: 23 February 2020