The Federal Trade Commission has opened a “non-public probe” into the company’s privacy practices. In a statement just posted on its website, the FTC wrote that it “takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook.” The...
Louis Vuitton has just made streetwear designer Virgil Abloh the artistic director of menswear, making Abloh one of the few black executives at the helm of a European heritage luxury brand. And by bringing on a designer whose work has centered on streetwear and its intersection with hip-hop and rap culture, Louis...
The event will likely be an expression of Apple’s desire to recapture some of the hold on the market it’s lost to Google and Chromebook. Apple’s revenues grew to unprecedented levels with the massive popularity of the (larger) iPhone 6 circa 2013. Apple became the most valuable company in the...
Monday freakin’ fun day. Top trending tech news: 📞 Facebook said we allowed it to snoop on our calls (TNW) 🚗 Grab acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia operations (TNW) 📰 Zuck took out newspaper ads to apologize (BBC) What we’re talking about: Verge cryptocurrency asked users for $3M to reveal a...
In response to several privacy blunders, netizens are flocking to #DeleteFacebook. But research from AdGuard suggests that escaping Zuckerberg’s panopticon is easier said than done, as Facebook-built tracking software exists in a staggering number of apps. Facebook Audience Network is a tool used by developers, and...
You already know that recruiters stalk you on social media. Here are the things that they look out for. You probably already know recruiters are looking at your LinkedIn page, but what about your other social media platforms? You know, the ones where you post pictures of your latest vacation, share what you had for...
If you’re using Facebook’s Messenger app today, it may have asked you for permission to track “your call and text history” to help “friends find each other on Facebook.” But Ars Technica reports that on earlier editions of Android, prior to version 4.1, Facebook’s apps...
Apple CEO Tim Cook made the comments while attending the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, where he was serving as co-chair, reports Bloomberg. When asked if the user of a user’s data should be restricted following the revelations that 50 million Facebook users unknowingly had their data shared with...
The embattled social media network has taken to old-fashioned newspaper advertising to apologize for the data sharing scandal that has rocked the company for the past several weeks. The ad is signed by Mark Zuckerberg and states that if Facebook can’t protect users’ information, it doesn’t deserve...
Following tips from some Facebook users Last week, Ars Technica reported that the social network was collecting call logs and text message history from Android devices on which its apps were installed, without users’ permission. The company is now denying that it does this. Per Ars Technica’s story, call and SMS...
We all know that the websites we work on could be better — way better in fact — but it can be difficult to realize exactly how they could be improved. As an experienced digital marketer and SEO specialist, I absolutely love A/B testing and conversion rate optimization (CRO) because they are two of the few tools...
Elon Musk has jumped on the #deletefacebook train, deleting the pages for SpaceX and Tesla from the disgraced social media site and erasing their millions-strong followings. In case you’ve been living in seclusion for the last week or so, Facebook has found itself embroiled in a scandal involving a data analysis...
Wall Street is not having a good week. Stoked by fears of a global trade war and a selloff of tech stocks driven by Facebook’s data scandal, stocks tumbled again on Friday, with the Dow Jones finishing out its worst week in two years. Tariffs announced by President Trump have sparked a retaliatory response from...
While some Facebook users have been busy tweeting #DeleteFacebook in the wake of the company’s data-privacy scandal this week, one business is taking matters into its own hands. Sonos today announced that it is pulling advertising from Facebook–as well as Google and Twitter–and donating the money...
I guess today is Delete Facebook Day. Elon Musk, after being questioned on Twitter, seems to have taken the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX, two companies he runs, offline. Musk, who has a reputation being cagily trolly online, replied to a WhatsApp cofounder’s tweet telling people to delete Facebook with...
Citing Asian supply-chain partners, Merrill Lynch analyst Wamsi Mohan claims that Apple is working on a foldable iPhone that can double as a tablet, possibly for a 2020 launch. While the sourcing is thin, the Korea Herald reported a similar rumor in October, pointing to LG Display as a potential supplier. Apple...
This can only happen in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain. Privacy-oriented digital currency Verge has taken to Twitter to ask its users to donate 75,000,000 XVG (approximately $3 million) so it can reveal a mysterious, “potential partnership” next week. For the record, this is completely unheard of –...
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and other tech CEOs including IBM’s Ginny Rometty, and Qualcomm’s Steven Mollenkopf are headed to China this weekend to attend the China Development Forum, which Cook will co-chair, reports 9to5Mac. The delegation of tech giants comes at the beginning of a...
After Parkland, like many people before then, the students have used the power of grief and loss to power a social movement. For years, we could predict the response to any mass shooting with almost scientific precision: variations of “thoughts and prayers” would overwhelm our Twitter feeds. The Onion...
Two production companies are turning the lawsuit, which saw billionaire venture capitalist Thiel financially back Hulk Hogan in a suit against the former online media giant Gawker, into films, reports Engadget. The first, titled Gawker v. Thiel, will be helmed by Modern Family director Jason Winer and will focus on...
YouTube has been producing original content for subscribers of its paid Red tier for a while now, but it’s graduating from shows and web series to feature films this year, starting with the Susan Sarandon-starrer, Vulture Club. IndieWire notes that the film, directed by Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz, sees...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke publicly on Thursday for the first time about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, nearly a week after users and investors began to voice alarm at the revelation that the data-analytics firm had improperly gained access to the personal data associated with millions of Facebook user...
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company is a worrying development for legitimate researchers. Political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica – which is affiliated with Strategic...
Instagram would probably like you to forget that its parent company is in the midst of a massive data privacy scandal. How does it do that? Well, it’s finally fixing one of the most common quibbles people have about the platform. Have you ever had your Instagram feed automatically refreshed,...
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