Month: June 2018

The congressional elections are more than four months away, but voter engagement is high when compared with comparable points in previous midterm cycles.

Just 41% of Americans say they are very or somewhat confident that Trump will handle matters related to the special counsel investigation appropriately. Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments.

Top U.S. wireless providers say they plan to stop selling consumers’ location data to a group of data brokers, shedding light on how the information is collected and used for various sales and services. Following an investigation into the relationships between telecoms and lesser-known data brokers, Verizon said it plans to suspend relationships with data…

CANNES, France–Instagram’s Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity experiences are always a festival highlight. Naturally, a company built on promoting visual storytelling excels at doing just that. But this year the company, in partnership with artist and Adweek Creative 100 honoree Es Devlin, produced a truly astounding piece about the history of storytelling. Starting with cave…

You can now explore the depths of Westworld from your living room, kitchen, bathroom, wherever–as long as you have your Amazon Echo nearby and within earshot. All you have to say is, “Alexa, open Westworld.” Today, HBO announced the debut of its new Alexa skill, called “Westworld: The Maze.” It’s designed specifically for fans of…

Lame banner ads are one of the internet’s most persistent conundrums, but a new app is offering a simple solution. Just replace them all with something the internet loves–pictures of adorable cats. A new website, www.IWantMoreCats.com, invites visitors to press a button, promising the action will lead to fewer banner ads cluttering their screens, and…

Interested in commerce? Hear from Zappos CMO Tyler Williams and other executives at Adweek Ignite: eCommerce July 10-12 in Seattle–apply here to attend. Last month French retailer Carrefour announced that over 250 of its 16,000 supermarkets were at risk of closure, sending shock waves across trade unions. Executives pointed to these locations’ glaring lack of…

Tesla accused a former employee in a lawsuit of hacking into its computer system to steal company data and send it to an unnamed third party.

Glassdoor released its Employees’ Choice Awards late Tuesday night, naming the top CEOs for 2018 based on input from employees who elected to anonymously submit a company review.

The company has built a huge presence in the nation’s capital, spending millions to build an army of lobbyists for its multiple businesses and winning billions in contracts from the government. With that comes with political risk, not least from the White House.