Facebook could be facing a fine of up to 1% of its global revenue for allegedly misleading European Union merger watchdogs when it won approval to buy the WhatsApp messaging service in 2014.
Identity fraud and online breaches seem to be dominating the news recently, with Tesco and the National Lottery leading the way. Jeremy Newman, founder and executive director of ShowUp discusses why the password system infrastructure is failing and what needs to be done to eradicate identity fraud once and for all.
2016 saw the unprecedented rise of ‘fake’ news with false news stories surrounding the American election creating more total engagement on Facebook compared to 19 major US news outlets combined. Dale Lovell, Chief Digital Officer at ADYOULIKE, explains why the primary reason for the rise in ‘fake’ news is money-driven, not political.
Yahoo has announced that hackers stole data from more than one billion of its user accounts in August 2013, in what is thought to be the largest data breach at an email provider.
IAB Europe has published two key resources for Online Native Advertising and Content Marketing, giving advice on applicable EU rules.
Uber has sparked criticism after its latest update lets the app to track a user’s location for five minutes after a journey has ended, even if the app is only running in the background.
BIMA, the membership organisation for the digital industry, today announced the appointments of Natalie Gross, former Amaze CEO and Tarek Nseir, CEO and founder of TH_NK as joint chairs for the next three years.
From talking cat collars to robot marketers, technology took us in some strange directions during 2016. In this brave new world of emoji keyword targetting and smart pigeons, we celebrate the weirdest news of the year.
As 2016 draws to a close, we look as some of the biggest marketing blunders of the year. From Microsoft’s chatbot going rogue on Twitter to Gmail ‘April fooling’ itself, there were plenty of mistakes from companies that should know better. Read on, learn from the mistakes and hope your team doesn’t make the list … [Read more…]
Major online ad exchange AppNexus has blacklisted news site Breitbart for “breaking their service rules regarding hate speech”.