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,…
They may be part of a new strategy that exploits our tendency to take an interest in people who appear to take an interest in us. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Of the big three social network sites, Facebook is for long-winded political rants, Twitter is for arguments and professional brags,…
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 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…
#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 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 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…
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…
Bianca Andreescu has become the highest-ranked Canadian tennis player in WTA Tour history. The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., jumped one spot to No. 4 in the rankings on Monday following a week off. That pushes her one spot ahead of her career-best No. 5 ranking, which tied a Canadian record set by Eugenie Bouchard in…
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…
The reliable and consistent fantasy football players have begun to separate themselves from the duds at this point in the season. You may think any player available on the waiver wire is there for a reason, but there are still reliable targets out there to help your team as the playoffs draw closer and closer.…
Mark Zuckerberg has been roundly criticized by the press and lawmakers for his company’s incongruous new policy allowing politicians to make false claims in advertising on the platform. Adding to that growing wave of dissent, according to the New York Times: some of Facebook’s own employees, who call the move “a threat to what [Facebook]…
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…
Dipayan Ghosh is a Shorenstein Fellow and co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a technology and economic policy advisor in the Obama White House, and later served as an advisor on privacy and publi…
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…
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook is being leaned on by US, UK, Australia to ditch its end-to-end encryption expansion plan U.S. Attorney General William Barr,…
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…
Submit campaign ads to fact checking, limit microtargeting, cap spending, observe silence periods or at least warn users. These are the solutions Facebook employees put forward in an open letter pleading with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company leadership to address misinformation in political ads. The letter, obtained by The New York Times’ Mike Isaac, insists…
