Attorney General Bill Barr’s rush to file an antitrust suit against Google two weeks before the end of an election seems suspicious. At the very least, the suit reflects President Donald Trump’s stated desire to punish imagined enemies in tech compan
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"Job loss. Sickness. Civil unrest. We occupy a mortal, vulnerable moment for both our businesses and ourselves. The problems are directly in front of us, staring back. Unavoidable. We are managing them, wrestling with them.
At the same time, we are
We are seeing a reshaping of what it means to have a career in journalism. The rise of the ‘passion economy‘, increasing freelancing, more niche publications and more ‘fluid’ or precarious employment are all creating new pathways to working in news m
Gaming will soon be more than just computerised competition. It will be a channel containing all other media channels within its belly. The next generation of consumers is heading to immersive spaces to chat socially, watch TV together, learn, and ev
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My inbox over the last few days has been filling up with emails asking for the Thinkbox view on a recent report from Samsung Ads, which reveals some interesting analysis of their 3.7m TV sets that they’re able to collect viewing data across.
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"EU court in July ruled there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies.
Facebook has warned that it may pull out of Europe if the Irish data protection commissioner enforces a ban on sharing data with the US, after a
"Oracle has been chosen as ByteDance’s “trusted technology partner” for TikTok in the U.S., the technology company told Adweek today, though neither Oracle nor TikTok clarified what that relationship would look like.
TikTok confirmed that it has subm
"Online advertising is a game of scale, but one attempt to consolidate two competitors to better take on Google and Facebook has fallen apart. Taboola and Outbrain, startups that each provide publishers with ad-based content recommendation platform
"While many brands have gone silent at this time of the pandemic, the International Advertising Association (IAA) is trying to tell them it is not the time to slow down. But the right time to push their products and services through various media out
"Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it plans to launch its news service in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, India and Brazil in the coming months, after having introduced the feature in the United States last year.
The social media giant’s news service
"TikTok is suing the U.S. government in federal court over the Trump Administration’s decision to ban TikTok in the U.S. market. Reports that TikTok would soon file a legal challenge to the ban were already making the rounds this weekend, ahead of Ti
"Social-media tycoon emphasized threat from Chinese internet companies as he worked to fend off U.S. regulation of Facebook
Downloading TikTok and WeChat from the Google or Apple app stores in the U.S. could be blocked by President Trump's executive o
"Facebook France has accepted paying more than 100 million euros in taxes, including a penalty, relating to its accounting years before 2018, French financial magazine Capital reported on its website.
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"Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: It can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother to click on links after getting the gist of the story from…
"To be very frank the biggest challenge the creative industries are facing today, now, is that because we're so much interconnected, so much media driven, social media driven, but yet, when we connect to this kind of social media, virtual platforms, what we miss is to connect each other from within. ... In Banglagesh in this region what we've seen is that we're…
"It would be easy to me to say technology, the transformation and everything else but I'm trying in every interview to remind people that what we need to do is to take care of our people, to take care of client's people, everybody's people... so we need to be very careful and very, I mean, empathetic.... I think that the main opportunity and the main point now…
