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Faced with growing concerns about privacy, Facebook said Wednesday that it plans to end a targeting program that allowed advertisers to serve ads to users based on their offline purchase histories and
locations.

Sizable majorities of Democrats and Republicans cite the other party’s harmful policies as a major reason they belong to their party.

Facebook has a reputation crisis. Between the Cambridge Analytica scandal weakening users’ already shaky trust, and Elon Musk pulling Tesla’s and SpaceX’s pages, the platform is grappling with a public-relations problem that can have long-reaching effects on its business. But underneath those headlines remains the company’s Measure What Matters initiative, announced in February, which aims…

Musician/actress Bj?rk and director/visual artist Jesse Kanda take center stage in the first installment of a new four-part video series from cloud-based file-sharing service WeTransfer. Dubbed “Work in Progress,” the series explores the many facets of creative collaboration, an apt theme given WeTransfer’s brand proposition. What’s more, Bj?rk and Kanda seem like a fine choice…

Frequent New York City subway riders might have seen these ads throughout the month of March. Created by international money transfer service TransferWise, the ads feature short limericks with a twist: they don’t rhyme. Riders took to social media throughout the month to complain, with varying levels of animosity, about the ads. Adweek visited the…

My leadership philosophy came from a rather unexpected source, one that is not traditionally associated with innovation and creative thinking: the military. In 2001, I did something I never anticipated I would do: I left my agency career to join the Army. Compelled to action by the events of September 11, 2001, I enlisted with…

President Trump criticized Amazon.com, lashing at the e-commerce giant over the taxes it pays, its use of the U.S. Postal Service and its impact on brick-and-mortar retailers.

Did you know LinkedIn allows you to prevent strangers from following you and seeing your public updates? Our guide will show you how this is done. Note: These screenshots were captured in the LinkedIn application on iOS. Step 1: Tap your profile picture in the top-left corner of the screen. Step 2: Tap the gear…

Facebook is curbing the information that it exchanges with firms that collect and sell consumer data for advertisers, as the social-media giant tries to calm an uproar over its handling of personal information.

China has made self-driving auto technology a national priority, but the recent U.S. fatality involving an autonomous test car is prompting calls for the Chinese government to slow down those efforts to ensure public safety.