Marketing

Elon Musk Settles With SEC Over Twitter Use

Musk muzzled? CEO agrees to have financial tweets and statements vetted by legal counsel first

6 years ago

Facebook Sets Aside $3 billion For FTC Privacy Fine

Strong results from social networking giant as it prepares to pay billions for privacy breaches

6 years ago

Twitter Boss Meets President Trump In Oval Office

Donald Trump asks Jack Dorsey about fluctuations in follower numbers, after accusing platform of discrimination

6 years ago

Twitter, Google Urged To Do More In Fight Against Fake News

Warning from European Commission comes ahead of European Parliament elections next month

6 years ago

Google Wing Drones Gain FAA Approval For US Home Deliveries

FAA grants permission for Wing drones to deliver to homes in Virginia in the coming months

6 years ago

China ‘Delays’ Enforcement Of Data Law As Trade Talks Continue

Chinese regulators are reportedly looking to avoid a fresh confrontation with US companies amidst sensitive trade negotiations

6 years ago

Which? Study Ranks Vodafone Worst Network For Eighth Year Running

Customers give Vodafone and other large networks poor rankings, with GiffGaff and other small operators at the top of the…

6 years ago

Facebook Bans Far Right Groups

Hate crackdown continues as Facebook bans Nick Griffin, Britain First, BNP and National Front

6 years ago

Google To Give Android Users Choice Of Browser, Search Engine

'No more penalties please EU', as Google confirms browser and search choice for Android users

6 years ago

Facebook Uploaded 1.5 Million Email Contacts

Oh dear, oh dear. Facebook admits uploading email contact data on 1.5 million people without consent

6 years ago

Vodafone Gigafast Ad Banned After Virgin Complaint

Gigafast broadband service advert gets Vodafone into hot water with advertising watchdog

6 years ago

Twitter CEO Admits Platform Encourages Outrage

World of nastiness? Jack Dorsey admits that Twitter currently incentivised people "to post outrage"

6 years ago

Mind Your Language: Why AI-powered comparative linguistics is the perfect complement to marketing instinct

How AI-powered comparative linguistics can help firms with their marketing efforts

6 years ago

Facebook Messenger App To Be Ditched, Researcher Claims

Messaging service may be incorporated back into main Facebook app, after trial was spotted by researcher

6 years ago

Google’s Wing Drones To Begin Deliveries In Australia

Google claims launch of world's first commercial drone delivery service in the land down under

6 years ago

Facebook Improves AI For Dealing With Deceased Members

Artificial intelligence to identify profiles of those who have passed away, to stop pain for family

6 years ago

Facebook Changes User Terms Under Pressure From European Commission

The changes for the first time clearly spell out Facebook's business model of selling user data for use in targeted…

6 years ago

Vestager Calls For Europe To ‘Take The Lead’ On Digital Tax

European countries should push ahead with taxes aimed at fairer digital taxation and allow the rest of the world to…

6 years ago

Facebook Takes Down Exposed User Data On Amazon Server

Mexican firm responsible however refuses to accept 540 million records on Facebook users was sensitive

6 years ago

Mozilla Looks To Reduce Push Notification Spam

The browser conducts experiments as it looks for ways to stop irksome push notification requests from bombarding Firefox users

6 years ago

Facebook’s Call For Regulation Meets With Scepticism

As political pressure mounts, Mark Zuckerberg calls for a common regulatory framework covering issues such as harmful content, misinformation and…

6 years ago

Facebook Bans White Power Content After Christchurch Massacre

After mosque murder spree, white nationalism and white separatism content banned by Facebook

6 years ago

Facebook Stored Millions Of Passwords Unprotected

Oh dear. 600 million passwords stored in plain text with no encryption, social network admits

6 years ago

Google Stung By 1.49bn Euro Fine Over Advertising Practices

Third EU fine in two years for Google as European Commission rules its advertising service broke antitrust rules

6 years ago

Facebook Hit By More Senior Resignations

Mark Zuckerberg's right hand man steps down amid plans to unite WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook

6 years ago

Criminal Investigation Into Facebook Data Sharing – Report

It never rains but pours. US federal prosecutors launch investigation of Facebook's data sharing deals

6 years ago

Facebook Restores Services After Global Outage

Refund for advertisers? Outage spread across two days, but social network remains silient about the cause

6 years ago

Government Review Urges Law Overhaul To Tackle Facebook, Google Domination

Competition laws need overhaul to tackle dominance of tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Amazon

6 years ago

US Labels Digital Tax On Tech Firms As ‘Highly Discriminatory’

Senior US Treasury officials labels the French digital tax as 'discriminatory' and 'ill conceived'

6 years ago

World Wide Web Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Back in 1989 a British scientist at a physics laboratory near Geneva invents the world wide web

6 years ago