How This Superfan Landed His Dream Job

Ronnie “2K” Singh talks about his unusual path to working for 2K Sports. October 24, 2019 1 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. On this episode of The Playbook, Ronnie “2K” Singh, Director of Influencer Marketing for NBA 2K, talks about:What it was like dropping out of Columbia Law School to…

Too little, too vape? The FTC finally opens an inquiry into e-cigarette marketing practices

Years after Juul was created, months after a rash of vaping related lung injuries were reported, and weeks after the government started pulling flavored e-cigs from store shelves, the FTC has decided to investigate the marketing practices of the e-cigarette industry.The FTC wants six major e-cigarette manufacturers to turn over marketing data by January 2,…

An intern applicant says a marketing company posted her bikini photo on Instagram in an attempt to shame her

Emily Clow, 24, told The Daily Dot on Tuesday that after she applied for a position at a marketing company called Kickass Masterminds, it posted an Instagram Story about a bikini photo she had posted on Instagram.The screenshot she shared showed that the Instagram Story said: “PSA (because I know some of you applicants are…

Cristiano Ronaldo makes more money being an influencer on Instagram than he does playing soccer for Juventus

Cristiano Ronaldo apparently earns more from Instagram than he does from playing soccer for Juventus.The 34-year-old pockets an annual $47.8 million from paid Instagram posts, according to a study by social media firm Hopper HQ on Buzz Bingo.In contrast, his salary at Juventus is reportedly $34 million, according to Goal.com.Ronaldo’s reported income from Instagram makes…

How to Use TikTok to Promote Your Business

#TikTok for the win! Image credit: Thomas Trutschel | Getty Images Syed Balkhi Guest Writer Entrepreneur, Growth Hacker and Marketer October 23, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Does the hottest new social media platform TikTok confuse you? To some, it probably seems like just a lip-syncing video app…

Google Search Now Reads at a Higher Level

Google search is advancing a reading grade.Google says it has enhanced its search-ranking system with software called BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers to its friends. It was developed in the company’s artificial intelligence labs and announced last fall, breaking records on reading comprehension questions that researchers use to test AI software.Pandu Nayak, Google’s…

Google accused of spying with new tool that flags large employee meetings

Google employees have accused their employer of creating a surveillance tool disguised as a calendar extension designed to monitor gatherings of more than 100 people, a signal that those employees may be planning protests or discussing union organizing. Google parent company Alphabet “categorically” denies the accusation. The accusation, outlined in a memo obtained by Bloomberg…

App revenue climbs 23% year-over-year to $21.9B in Q3

Global app revenue continues to climb, thanks to the growth in mobile gaming and the subscription economy. In the third quarter of 2019, consumer revenue grew 22.9% year-over-year from $17.9 billion to reach an estimated $21.9 billion across both the App Store and Google Play worldwide, according to new data from Sensor Tower. Notably, the…

Facebook Reportedly Flags Hundreds of Thousands of Kids as Interested in Gambling, Alcohol

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that whatever you do on Facebook eventually comes back to you in the form of targeted ads. It turns out, however, that Facebook’s advertising tools have also marked hundreds of thousands of children as interested in gambling and alcohol, opening them up to some not-so-great advertisements.A joint investigation by…

15 Fantasy Football Transactions for Week 9 – numberFire

You could easily make the argument — there may not even be an argument — that the New England Patriots defense is, thus far, this year’s fantasy football MVP.And that brings forth an interesting dilemma for those of us — yes, I’ve got them, too — with the unit on our fantasy squads. Can the…

Google unveils Pixel 4 with radar gesture control – CNET

Sarah Tew/CNET Google unveiled its Pixel 4 phone Tuesday at an event in New York City. It’s the first phone to use a radar sensor to let users control it using gestures, said Google’s Sabrina Ellis, via Motion Sense sensor. You’ll be able to do tasks like skip a song or silence a call through gestures.”It’s…

Facebook Discloses New Disinformation Campaigns From Russia and Iran

Facebook said it had found and taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York TimesSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Monday that it had recently found and taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, the latest of dozens that it has identified and removed this year and a sign of how foreign interference online is…

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