Category: Data-Labor-Technology Stories

AT&T is considering an unusual bid to seek testimony from the Justice Department’s antitrust chief in the coming trial over its $85 billion purchase of Time Warner, part of the companies’ effort to challenge the legitimacy of the government’s lawsuit.

Cisco Systems Inc. plans to bring $67 billion of its foreign cash holdings to the U.S. this quarter following recent changes to U.S. tax law, in one of the largest repatriation plans yet revealed.

Millions tuned in to NBC’s Olympics coverage on Tuesday night to see snowboarding icon Shaun White win his third Winter Olympics gold medal, which consequently gave Team USA its 100th all-time winter gold. Per Nielsen live-plus-same-day data and digital data from Adobe Analytics, NBC Olympics’ Tuesday prime-time coverage posted a Total Audience Delivery of 22.6…

Starting on Thursday, Google’s Chrome browser will block certain types of online advertisements, a change Google is describing as user friendly. But some in the industry say the ad giant’s move is self-serving, and they contend Google overly influenced the process that selected which ad types to block.

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…