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TikTok removed nearly 25 million videos in Pakistan during the first quarter of 2025, according to its Q1 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, which covers activity from January to March. According to the report, a total of 24,954,128 videos were taken down in Pakistan for violating the platform’s community guidelines. The proactive removal rate in the country remained exceptionally high at 99.4 percent, with 95.8 percent of the flagged videos removed within 24 hours of being posted. Globally, TikTok removed approximately 211 million videos during the same period, which accounts for about 0.9 percent of all content uploaded to the…

Bill McDermott, Chairman, President & CEO ServiceNow, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 17th, 2024. Adam Galici | CNBCServiceNow posted strong second-quarter results and lifted its guidance Wednesday. Shares climbed 7% following the report.Here’s how the company performed compared to LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: $4.09 adjusted vs. $3.57 expectedRevenue: $3.22 billion vs. 3.12 billion expectedSubscription revenues, which account for the majority of the enterprise technology company’s revenues, hit $3.11 billion and topped a $3.03 billion forecast from StreetAccount.The company boosted its full-year subscription revenue guidance to between $12.775 billion…

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) directed Punjab Inspector General of Police Dr Usman Anwar on Wednesday to explain why, in Crime Control Department (CCD) “encounters”, only the accused are struck by bullets while police vans and their inmates remain unharmed.The CCD has faced repeated accusations of “fake encounters”, in which suspects die under suspicious circumstances. Chief Justice Aalia Neelum issued the summons while hearing Farhat Bibi’s petition alleging her son, Ghazanfar Aslam, was killed in a “fake police encounter” on April 22. The petitioner sought protection for her other son, Ansar Aslam, who is detained in Sheikhupura jail. Her…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAlphabet is set to report its second-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.Here’s what analysts polled by LSEG are expecting:Revenue: $94 billionEarnings per share: $2.18Wall Street is also watching these numbers in the report:YouTube advertising revenue: $9.56 billion, according to StreetAccountGoogle Cloud revenue: $13.11 billion, according to StreetAccountTraffic acquisition costs (TAC): $14.18 billion, according to StreetAccountAlphabet is among the megacaps expected to be a major driver of earnings growth during the second-quarter earnings season. Wall Street…

Jeffrey Epstein in 2004.Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by the Trump administration to unseal the transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to a criminal investigation of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in the mid-2000s.The ruling does not affect two other pending requests by the Department of Justice that seek to obtain transcripts of grand jury proceedings related to later federal investigations of Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, in New York. Those separate proceedings led to criminal indictments of them in 2019 and 2020, respectively, in U.S. District Court…

A Magic: The Gathering card is displayed on a mobile phone during a weekly tournament at the Uncommons hobby shop in New York, U.S., on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Mark Abramson | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesToy and gaming giant Hasbro topped Wall Street expectations for the fiscal second quarter as strength in its digital gaming division helped offset continued weaknesses in its traditional toy business, weighed down by the impact of tariffs.”While tariffs represent a headwind for the business,” Hasbro’s CEO, Chris Cocks, said on the company’s earnings call. “We are compensating for these costs through a combination of cost…

Listen to article Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on July 25, officials confirmed on Wednesday. This will be Dar’s first official meeting with Secretary Rubio. The agenda will include a review of Pakistan-US ties, regional developments, particularly recent Pakistan-India tensions, and other matters of mutual interest. US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said senior officials from both nations would be present, and she would attend the meeting. Responding to a question at a press briefing on whether the US supports direct communication between Pakistan and India on Kashmir, as…

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of SpaceX and Tesla, attends the Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, June 16, 2023.Gonzalo Fuentes | ReutersTesla will report second-quarter results after the close of regular trading on Wednesday.Here’s what Wall Street expects, according to an average of estimates compiled by LSEG:Earnings per share: 43 centsRevenue: $22.74 billionRevenue in the period is expected to drop 11% from a year earlier, marking a second straight quarterly decline. In early July, Tesla reported a 14% year-over-year slide in vehicle deliveries to 384,000 for the second quarter.Deliveries are the closest approximation…

A glimpse into the Harvard University campus on May 24, 2025 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration continued building its multi-pronged case against American universities Wednesday, with the announcement of new investigations by the departments of state and education.The new probes are the latest in a months-long effort across the federal government to pressure elite colleges and universities to hew more closely to the administration’s political priorities.The State Department announced Wednesday that it has opened an investigation into whether Harvard University is eligible to participate in its Exchange Visitor Program, a broad visa…

U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) ahead of a roundtable event as part of the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 15, 2025. Ken Cedeno | ReutersThe Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday said it will officially remove the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from all flu shots distributed in the U.S. – even though there is no evidence of harm from the ingredient. While few jabs still contain thimerosal, the move eliminates a vaccine option for…