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Information company’s gauge of online buzz for TV shows expands beyond just Twitter to include the world’s biggest social network Soon, your Facebook friends won’t be the only ones paying attention to the TV show rants in your News Feed. Television ratings giant Nielsen is expanding how it measures social chatter around TV shows to include Facebook, expanding it…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest idea for how to make America great again? Force Apple to build its products in the US. Trump, in a Monday speech at Liberty University in Virginia, said he’d “get” Apple to build its “damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.” Now, Trump didn’t…
The US lost Apple’s manufacturing jobs years ago, and probably for good. Steve Jobs is rumored to have said as much at a high-power Silicon Valley dinner in 2011, when he told President Barack Obama “those jobs aren’t coming back.” But billionaire kleptomaniac Donald Trump thinks he’ll be the one to get them back. Speaking at Liberty…
The Onion’s top news, circa 2013: “Print Dead at 1,803.” On Tuesday, it helped put the nail in the coffin. The satirical news site just agreed to sell a chunk of itself (as well as sister properties including ClickHole and The A.V. Club) to Spanish broadcaster Univision Communications. The reported price tag of about $200 million for…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders this week assailed rival Hillary Clinton for taking large speaking fees from the financial industry since leaving the State Department. According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015: Clinton’s most lucrative…
Jan. 19, 2016 7:00 a.m. ET Despite numerous warnings that the online advertising business is rife with fraud, marketers continue to waste billions–an estimated $7 billion, at least, this year–on buying online ads that people do not see, according to the Association of National Advertisers. The trade group and ad fraud detection firm White Ops…
Photo: Nasa By the end of February, Google will deploy at full scale its Accelerated Mobile Pages project by sending search results to amp-html pages. Because it integrates all monetization instruments —advertising, analytics and now subscription systems— Google’s AMP is likely to rally scores of publishers. Over 5000 developers registered to the Github repository of…
Why can’t you find The Greatest Publication Ever Made on any newsstand or web browser or TV network? Because people don’t want it. This is America, where journalism is a business like any other. This is not England. The government will not be raining down supplemental income to support quality journalism. Take that socialism elsewhere!…
FRESNO, Calif. — Harlan Elrich is a high school teacher in California, and that means he must pay about $970 a year to a labor union. He teaches math, and he said the system did not add up. “I get to choose what movie I want to go see,” Mr. Elrich said. “I get to…
The controversial “poor door” at a luxury Lincoln Square tower is finally open — and creating New York-style financial apartheid. Tenants who were chosen to live in one of the 55 low-income units in Extell’s ritzy 33-story building recently started trickling in through the poor door — and many are disturbed by the glaring disparities….