Twitter’s Newest Trick Relies on Tracking More of Your Clicks

The social media company is testing warnings for users who try to share links to articles they haven’t read. To do that, it has to know what you’ve read.

The Facebook NPE Team Is Also Investing in Startups

The Facebook NPE Team is best-known for its experimental stand-alone applications–the NPE stands for New Product Experimentation–but it is also quietly running a multimillion-dollar fund to invest in startups. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the existence of the fund, saying, “Just as the NPE group experiments with products, the team is also experimenting with ways to…

Covid-19’s Economic Fallout Will Accelerate Linear TV’s Collapse

Traditional television has been on the decline for years, but the continued economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic will make cord cutting even more pronounced, according to new research from the firm MoffettNathanson. By 2024, traditional linear pay TV subscribers are expected to decline by 27 million, down to less than half of all occupied…

Google To Ban Discriminatory Targeting For Housing, Employment And Credit Ads

Google will stop allowing advertisers to target users for housing, employment and credit ads based on age, gender, parental status, marital status or ZIP code. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Facebook made a similar move late last year. Google announced its intentions on Thursday, but the changes won’t be fully implemented in the UnitedContinue reading »

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