Month: December 2021

Siding with Facebook, a federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by investors over revelations that the platform allowed outside companies, including data consultancy Cambridge Analytica, to obtain
personal information from millions of users.

The European Commission granted Microsoft approval on Tuesday to close on its $16 billion acquisition of speech recognition and AI software company Nuance Communications.

DuckDuckGo is building a desktop browser aimed at integrating the same security and privacy features as the one it built for mobile.

As the world goes wild for NFTs, it’s nice to see one marketer goofing on them this holiday season.

AT&T has agreed to sell its programmatic ad-technology unit Xandr to Microsoft. Terms were not disclosed on Tuesday, the day the two companies announced the deal.

In social media networks, your brand message is whatever meme happens to emerge from the collective activity of this connected market.

With the ability to create whole virtual worlds, gaming publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has begun promoting the fourth entry into its successful gaming brand The Sims as a “self-discovery tool” by partnering with beauty influencer and social media personality Bretman Rock for its latest international campaign. The “Find Yourselves” campaign aims to promote the ability…

Giving cash as a gift may be boring, but there’s no reason why it can’t be festive. Messenger Wednesday introduced holiday-themed backgrounds and gift wrap for people using Facebook Pay to send cash gifts via its Android application.

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Each year at this time, agencies send out holiday cards to their partners and clients to thank them for another year of business and show off their creativity in the process. Some are straightforward cards while others are charitable efforts and others multimedia explorations of creative cheer. The following efforts are a sampling of what…