The Department of Housing and Urban Development alerted Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google last year that it is scrutinizing their practices for possible housing discrimination, a sign that more technology companies could be ensnared in a government probe of their lucrative demographic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-28 23:15:00 UTC ]
Two-year-old female-focused Freeda Media has worked with 150 brands on branded content campaigns, and revenue has seen triple-digit growth. The post Inside Facebook-born Freeda Media’s distributed publishing strategy appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app.What people are talking about todayEurope just pushed through another... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The frustration with higher VAT for ebooks than print books may finally be over Poland as legislation is proposed to drop the rate from 23 to 5 percent. The post Polish Legislation Could Equalize VAT on Ebooks and Print by June 1 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A study finds parents focus more on technology with electronic books and interact less with children. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2019-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has admitted that it suspected Cambridge Analytica of scraping data from the platform even before the first reports about its massive data collection were published. The Guardian has learned about the social network's suspicion from a court... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2019-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it had left “hundreds of millions” of users’ passwords exposed in plain text, potentially visible to the company’s employees, marking another major privacy and security headache for a tech giant already under fire for mishandling people’s personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-21 20:35:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it had left “hundreds of millions” of users’ passwords exposed in plain text, potentially visible to the company’s employees, marking another major privacy and security headache for a tech giant already under fire for mishandling people’s personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-21 20:35:00 UTC ]
The inaugural FutureBook 40 crop reflect on the things holding publishers back from innovation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The pilot program is designed to improve the spread of information among local news publishers looking to modernize their businesses. The post How Facebook is spending more to ensure wary publishers rely on it less appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook paints a bleak picture for the media industry, while ignoring its own role in publishing’s demise. Benevolent Doctor Facebook today gave the country a very grave diagnosis via a blog post. The company has found that–wait for it–local news is dying. In fact, Facebook says that about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The killing of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was engineered to be viewed and shared on the world’s largest technology platforms, taking full advantage of Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to content moderation. It began with a racist manifesto uploaded to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-16 00:05:00 UTC ]
The killing of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was engineered to be viewed and shared on the world’s largest technology platforms, taking full advantage of Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to content moderation. It began with a racist manifesto uploaded to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-16 00:05:00 UTC ]
El apagón global de Facebook Inc., que afectó a los usuarios de su red social homónima, así como a los servicios de Instagram, Messenger y WhatsApp, fue resultado de un problema técnico, anunció la compañía. El problema fue causado por "un cambio en la configuración del servidor" y ahora está... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, announced he’s leaving the company one week after Mark Zuckerberg published his privacy manifesto. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2019-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc.’s top executive in charge of all products, Chris Cox, the longtime confidant of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company. It’s the highest-level departure at the social media giant amid nearly two years of sustained crises. Cox’s unexpected departure, which he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-14 22:45:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc.’s top executive in charge of all products, Chris Cox, the longtime confidant of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company. It’s the highest-level departure at the social media giant amid nearly two years of sustained crises. Cox’s unexpected departure, which he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-14 22:45:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc.’s global outage — which hit users of its namesake social network as well as sister services Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp — is winding down, the company announced Thursday. The issue was caused by “a server configuration change” and is now resolved, “and our systems are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-14 16:55:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc.’s global outage — which hit users of its namesake social network as well as sister services Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp — is winding down, the company announced Thursday. The issue was caused by “a server configuration change” and is now resolved, “and our systems are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-14 16:55:00 UTC ]
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has welcomed a European act of parliament created to make products and services more accessible, saying ebooks will be covered by the provisions of the legislation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]