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Updated June 22, 2016 9:44 a.m. ET Facebook Inc. FB -0.22 % has inked contracts with nearly 140 media companies and celebrities to create videos for its nascent live-streaming service, as the social network positions itself to cash in on a lucrative advertising market it has yet to tap—and keep its 1.65 billion monthly users…
A popular app that claims to scan the Mediterranean Sea in real time for adrift refugees does not work as its developers claim it does and may be a ploy to win an advertising industry award, experts say. The app, I Sea, was nominated at the Canne Lions awards show, an international advertising festival held…
Photo A crowded inflatable boat with Syrian refugees drifted in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece in August. Credit Yannis Behrakis/Reuters A charitable organization that helps rescue migrants in the Mediterranean has cut ties with I Sea, a mobile app that claimed to help users locate refugees adrift at sea, after outside developers revealed…
‘; if (google_ads[0].bidtype == ‘CPC’) { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); } } google_ad_client = ‘ca-pub-0457527031304647’; google_ad_output = ‘js’; google_max_num_ads = ‘1’; google_ad_type = ‘text’; google_feedback = ‘on’; google_skip = google_adnum; google_ad_channel = ‘1102379497’;http://gawker.com/the-influencer… Once brands began to realize that some dipshit’s Vine account…
Donald Trump supporter Wayne Allyn Root appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to threaten Apple — yes, the same Apple who manufactured the very product you’re likely reading this on — with a boycott if it didn’t openly support Donald Trump. Co-host Steve Doocy noted that Apple had dropped its support of the Republican…
Earlier this month, I Sea, a new app which claimed to let users scan satellite images of the Mediterranean Sea looking for refugees in need of rescue, was hailed as a smart convergence of tech and social justice that just might save lives. The app shows users a small section of water embedded with geographic…
Hugo is one of my oldest friends, strange though it is to think about him as such; we’ve known each other fully half my life, or about as long as I’ve been sentient. We met online in 2000, back when you wrote your own content because there wasn’t much else to read. We were writing…
If you are exactly like me, you live in a dense urban environment and assume that dense urban environments are the way of the future, and suburbs are dark hellpits full of enormous PetSmart outlets and molly-soaked teens. But perhaps this is incorrect? If you are exactly like me, you naturally expect that over time…
Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start buying ads with more precision and frequency, according to multiple sources. The messaging platform reached out to ad technology companies and agencies about its API, asking them what they would need from such software,…
We just lived through the nightmare scenario we were worried about as we called for a moratorium on The DAO: someone exploited a weakness in the code of The DAO to empty out more than 2M ($40M USD) ether. The exploit seems to have targeted the reentrancy problem in the ‘splitDAO’ function. The reentrancy problem…