Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

Penry Price is not quite “Open to Work” yet, but he announced on Wednesday he is stepping down from his longtime role as vice president of LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. Longtime Twitter veteran Matthew Derella will join the professional network to succeed him. Price revealed his impending departure in a video posted to LinkedIn Wednesday, saying…

Paxton’s subpoena — issued soon after Media Matters published a negative report about brand safety on X — marks an “extraordinary overreach” against a journalistic organization, Media Matters’
attorney told a federal appellate panel Wednesday morning.

Karoline Leavitt will be the new White House press secretary when Donald Trump takes office in January. At 27, she’ll be the youngest person to serve in that role, but she’s familiar with the job, having worked as an assistant press secretary for Kayleigh McEnany during the president-elect’s first term. Leavitt was also part of…

Dating and social platform Her is expanding its ad options for brands and its millions of users who identify as LGBTQ+, with programmatic ads via Google Ads Manager, in an effort to help advertisers
more efficiently reach their target audience.

Comcast will spin off all its entertainment cable TV channels and news networks, MSNBC and CNBC – while keeping one lone cable entertainment network, Bravo.

Netflix says the Tyson/Paul fight pulled 65 million concurrent global household streams and 38 million U.S. streams, and the fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano was the most-watched
professional women’s sports event in U.S. history with an estimated 74 million live viewers globally.

“If you want to be good at advertising, be a student of popular culture,” said my professor.

The retailer reports strong spending, especially from upper-income consumers.

Siding against Amazon, a federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit by consumers who claim the company’s policies regarding marketplace vendors resulted in higher prices.

DuckDuckGo asked the European Commission to open additional investigations into Google’s compliance with landmark rules aimed at making the search giant comply with the EU Digital Markets Act,
enacted in 2022.