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Amazon’s fledgling advertising business could grow to around $20 billion in 2020, according to Alex DeGroote, a media analyst at Cenkos Securities.

The woman accused of shooting three people inside YouTube’s headquarters before killing herself left a social-media footprint that included rhetoric against YouTube for allegedly censoring her video content.

Russia’s Internet Research Agency has not been completely eliminated on Facebook, but the social network announced some progress in its efforts against the entity that sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos revealed in a Newsroom post that the social network removed 70 accounts, 138 pages and 65…

European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has become the de facto global regulator for Silicon Valley. Her approach to Google and Apple is having a ripple effect around the globe, influencing regulatory action not only in Europe, but in the U.S., Brazil and Russia.

As an industry, we are at an important inflection point. We’ve lost trust in the technologies that promised to improve the way we communicate with each other. We took mottos like Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” at face value and blindly followed the hype–and frankly, the dollars–to the point we’re at today. And now we must…

HP is taking 15 diverse creatives to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this year as part of the company’s ongoing push to promote diversity in the advertising industry. The #MoreLikeMe diversity initiative will invite 15 creatives from the U.S., U.K. and Mexico to attend the festival this summer and participate in a number…

The sexual harassment lawsuit pitting J. Walter Thompson global chief communications officer Erin Johnson against her employer and its former CEO Gustavo Martinez has come to an end almost exactly two years after it was filed, with the parties agreeing to settle for an undisclosed sum. Agency leadership announced the decision today after the legal…

Many Americans see new difficulties for men in workplace interactions and little effect on women’s career opportunities amid the increased focus on sexual harassment and assault.

Major League Baseball’s package of 25 weekday-afternoon games available exclusively via Facebook Watch starts Wednesday afternoon (weather permitting, as always) with the Philadelphia Phillies visiting the New York Mets (1:10 p.m. ET), and Twitter gets its turn to toe the MLB rubber Thursday. The Texas Rangers at the Oakland Athletics at 3:35 p.m. ET Thursday…

At South by Southwest in 2017, photographer Benjamin Von Wong learned that Dell was working with artists to raise awareness of the computer giant’s electronics recycling program, and he decided he wanted to participate. A year later, the ensuing collaboration has yielded jaw-dropping results–namely a trio of elaborate photographs shot in Wong’s hyper-realistic style. Launched…