Month: January 2019

Facebook is getting beaten up by a punishing news cycle – but, for its part, it’s beating the street. The stock was up nearly 7% in after-hours trading on Wednesday. Revenue for the fourth quarter clocked in at $16.91 billion, a 30.4% YoY increase. The vast majority of that – $16.64 billion – was thanks to advertising. Not… Continue reading »

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Electronic Frontier Foundation senior information security counsel Nate Cardozo likely became quite familiar with WhatsApp and its parent company, Facebook, during his six-and-a-half years of working on cybersecurity policy for the EFF. And now, Cardozo is about to become even more familiar with WhatsApp and Facebook. He announced in a Facebook post that starting Feb….

Ride-hailing companies Lyft and Juno sued the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission in an effort to stall new minimum-wage requirements for the services’ drivers from taking effect later this week.

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Employees are using messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype for work-related communications on a regular basis, often without the knowledge or approval of the human resources departments at their companies, according to a new study from private enterprise social network Speakap. Speakap surveyed over 1,000 non-desk employees–which it defined as people who…

NBCUniversal has completed the first stage of a tech partnership with Freewheel to unify its ad delivery system, taking it one step closer to selling ad inventory to buyers across screens in a unified way. The partnership between the two companies, both owned by Comcast, is part of NBCUniversal’s “one order, one report” vision, whereby…

Girls Inc., the nonprofit focused on empowering and educating girls through mentorships and programming, is advertising in the Super Bowl with a CBS Cares public service announcement. Gayle King, host of CBS This Morning, narrates the 20-second PSA, saying, “When girls face their challenges, they’re stronger. When girls work together, they realize their value. When…

Facebook has shut the iOS version of a Facebook app that had allowed the social media giant to spy on young mobile phone users in exchange for cash–but the company will continue to pay young people who use Android devices in exchange for their detailed mobile phone and web browsing activity. The decision comes after…

After almost two years of public and regulatory scrutiny, Facebook continues to brazenly skirt every rule and attempt at oversight put before it.

Jacopo Bracco, former president of DIRECTV PanAmerica, explains how AI can impact entertainment, content, data, and strategic insights.