Month: May 2018

Amazon said that one of its Echo home speakers recorded a private conversation without permission and sent it to a person in the owners’ contact list, an incident that raises questions about the security of such voice-operated devices.

Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing patents related to the iPhone’s design, a federal jury found Thursday.

MDC Partners’ 72andSunny laid off an unspecified number of employees amounting to “less than 5 percent” of total staff in its Los Angeles office this week, several days after its relationship with Infiniti came to an end. According to a statement from an agency spokesperson, the company is currently undergoing an internal reorganization in order…

In what would appear to be the first direct legal challenge to the Diet Madison Avenue Instagram account, former CP+B chief creative officer Ralph Watson has filed a civil case accusing it, along with two anonymous parties who allegedly help run the account, of defamation. Campaign first reported on the suit earlier today. The case…

Facebook introduced its political advertising archive and updated transparency policies to the US on Thursday, after testing them out in countries like Canada, Britain and Kenya. Moving forward, all electoral and issue-based ads on Facebook or Instagram will be archived and will have a “Paid for by” disclaimer, which prevents political advertisers from promoting content… Continue reading »

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Snapchat Thursday announced the launch of Yellow, an accelerator fund aimed at startups and creators building media projects specifically for mobile devices. Facebook has been running a similar program, FbStart, since May 2014. Snapchat said in a blog post that it will select “a small group of individuals and teams from around the world” to…

A week after the national TV networks made their upfront presentations, executives of the newly-formed New York Interconnect made their own pitch to a room full of ad buyers and brands. The Interconnect bills itself as a one-stop shop for ad buyers and planners looking to reach more than 6 million households in the New…

It’s the end of an era at BET Networks, as chairman and CEO Debra Lee is stepping down on Monday, after 32 years with the company. Under her leadership, BET has been the No. 1 network among African-American viewers for 17 years, with hits like The Game, The Real Husbands of Hollywood and last year’s…

Facebook continues to take steps to ensure that “I didn’t know” is no longer an excuse when it comes to users and the privacy controls that are available to them. Chief privacy officer Erin Egan announced in a Newsroom post that people on Facebook will begin seeing customized alerts atop their News Feeds this week,…

Migration, racial or ethnic self-identity, and marriage were among the many topics explored at the Population Association of America’s annual meeting last month.