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A top U.S. regulator recommended approving SpaceX’s plan to provide internet service through satellites, a move that could expand broadband availability across the U.S. and beyond.

Is now the time for Las Vegas to come up with a new tagline? A recent story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal questioned whether R&R Partners’ long-running “What happens here, stays here” tagline for the city’s Convention and Visitors Authority’s faces a “cloudy future” in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against casino owner Steve…

If a robot were to write sonnet, what would it sound like? And, perhaps more importantly, what would it feel like? This Valentine’s Day, teams of developers and designers at Brooklyn-based agency Huge wanted to use technology to help star-crossed lovers stay out of the Hallmark aisle. During a one-day employee hackathon, the winning team…

While positive opinions of the FBI among Republicans have slipped since early last year, two-thirds of Americans – including a majority of Republicans – view the bureau favorably.

Despite yet another report about users under 25 fleeing Facebook, ad agencies appear to be staying the course, regardless of whether they’ve been bullish or bearish on the world’s largest social network. According to eMarketer’s newest research, Facebook will lose two million monthly U.S. users under 25 this year, and it sees Snapchat picking up…

In 1929, the slaying of seven gangsters in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre delivered a wake-up call to Chicagoans and the American public about the destructive effects of Chicago’s notorious gangs. The aftermath of the violence began a new era of enforcement designed to clean up the gangs and ultimately marked the beginning of the…

The CW is growing from five nights of programming to six next season. Starting in October, the network will expand its schedule to Sunday nights, for a total of 12 hours of prime-time shows each week. This will be the first time in nine years that The CW will program on Sunday nights. From 2006-2009,…

Global experience agency Huge today announced the appointment of Dick de Lange as managing director and global head of planning. De Lange served as chief strategy officer of North America at Young & Rubicam before leaving in January. When his resignation was announced in December, a Y&R spokesperson said de Lange was leaving “to pursue…

Fox has licensed ITN Holdings’ ProVantageX platform. Through the ITN platform, media buyers can quickly negotiate with Fox using a centralized source of automated audience estimates.

The future of Verizon’s mobile streaming video service Go90 brand is uncertain, according to Tim Armstrong, CEO of Verizon’s Oath unit, which oversees Go90, speaking at Recode’s Code Media conference
on Tuesday.