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Media The Online Video View: We Can Count It, but Can We Count on It? close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, left, spoke at Advertising Week about the company’s recent video miscalculation mishap. Credit Michael Nagle/Bloomberg ONE OF THE great promises of online videos was the potential to measure precisely how effective…
Media Facebook Apologizes for Overstating Video Metrics close story-meta-footer close story-meta Facebook apologized on Friday for an error in the way it measured video viewership, a miscalculation that greatly overstated how much time, on average, its users were spending watching videos. The incorrect numbers were displayed to partners, including advertisers and publishers, for more than…
Verizon is pushing for a $1 billion discount off its pending $4.8 billion agreement to buy Yahoo, several sources told The Post exclusively. The request comes on the heels of the web giant getting bludgeoned by bad news in the past few days. Yahoo revealed two weeks ago that it had been hacked in 2014…
Getty Images By Markets reporter Reporter Deep-pocketed suitors are reportedly dropping their bids for Twitter—a blow that could deal a hefty hit to the social media company’s shares, analysts said Thursday. Twitter Inc. TWTR, -20.10% dropped 20.1% to $19.87 Thursday, following a Recode report Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources, saying Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +0.23%…
Lawless forum site 4chan is going broke as ad sales dry up Members of the hack-tivist collective Anonymous once flocked to 4chan, the anonymous nature of which suited their clandestine needs. By Patrick Kulp2016-10-06 13:11:36 UTC Earlier this week, 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura hit the forum site’s users with some jarring news. The company is…
A closer look at the yield curve on U.S. Treasurys — one of the more closely watched indicators of overall economic health Understanding the Yield Curve – WSJ.com. Source: Understanding the Yield Curve – WSJ.com
For our stakeholders, After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best aligned with our core values and mission. We have decided to close our clinical labs and Theranos Wellness Centers, which will impact approximately 340 employees in Arizona, California, and Pennsylvania. …
Donald Trump’s Tax Records: A Tale of Business Failures It wasn’t just 1995. Five years of tax information from the 1970s that Donald Trump provided to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety show mismanagement and losses that could have pushed him into personal bankruptcy—but for the largesse of his Dad. The recent…
The answer was complicated, a bit too much so to explain in my rusty Chinese. Had I been honest, I would have told him that I had arrived in Hangzhou on a journey of last resort. Encased in Ziploc at the bottom of my shoulder bag was a Donald J. Trump-brand necktie with silver checks…
Oct. 5, 2016 6:01 a.m. ET The New York Times NYT -1.24 % is moving away from standardized “banner” advertisements on its website and plans to replace them with its own proprietary display ad formats. Online banner advertising has become increasingly commoditized in recent years, with the same standardized, rectangular formats appearing on sites across…