Month: May 2018

All those who live in nonstop outrage, either pro- or anti-Trump, claim they’re fighting for the good of the country – but they seem addicted to the same adrenaline rush that afflicts gamblers and
bungee jumpers. Can we make it stop?

In its programming, the company leaned into its strengths: sports, built around Yahoo Sports; news, built around HuffPost; and personal finance, built off Yahoo Finance and “Makers” series.

The ‘Wired’ channel will launch later this year, while the channels for ‘Bon Appetit’ and ‘GQ’ are slated for a 2019 release. The OTT video channels will be available on AppleTV, Roku and Amazon Fire.

The division combines data strategy, brand strategy and social strategy with technology and behavioral sciences in order to make more accurate predictions about how people behave.

T-Mobile’s proposed $26 billion acquisition of Sprint could result in “higher prices and fewer innovative services,” Sen. Ed Markey warns in a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee’s leaders.

BBC News framed itself as a place where marketers and consumers can find a trustworthy environment in a media landscape littered with doubt, skepticism of mainstream news outlets and concerns over ad
fraud.

“This has been an intense year – I can’t believe we’re only four months in.” Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Jose on Tuesday with a joke and he got a few chuckles from the gathered crowd of 5,000 developers. Facebook’s recent crackdown on API access and data flows in response to… Continue reading »

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Amazon held postmortem phone calls with almost all of the cities it rejected for its second headquarters shortlist, to explain why they didn’t make the cut. Now, some are trying to address those weak spots.

Cord-cutting is an issue in 13 countries, but the U.S. has the biggest drop. IHS Markit says further cord-cutting will gain steam in North America. It projects a net decline of 8.5 million pay TV
subscribers from 2018 through 2022.

The well-heeled and tuxedo-ed honchos of NBC News and MSNBC partied the night away in high style at their very own Versailles.