Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Investors have been fretting about Viacom Inc.’s cable TV fortunes and hoping the company will cook up new ways to profit in the digital economy. On Tuesday, as the media company reports quarterly results, it will have a new partnership to tout on that front. The shiny new object: a deal with Snapchat Inc., the…
Photo Fall Out Boy performed at Pandora Holiday, a concert sponsored by the music service, at Pier 36 in New York on Dec. 10. Credit Theo Wargo/Getty Images Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company, according to people briefed on the talks. Pandora is working with Morgan Stanley…
SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) announced Wednesday it will lay off 107 employees in the first of what is expected to be more than 1,500 job cuts. The layoffs take effect April 11 and affected employees received 60-day advance notice of the move, Yahoo said in a notice filed with the California Employment Development…
The US intelligence chief has acknowledged for the first time that agencies might use a new generation of smart household devices to increase their surveillance capabilities. As increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet and to one another, the so-called internet of things promises consumers increased convenience – the remotely operated thermostat from Google-owned…
Airbnb’s efforts to become an “open and transparent” company might not quite line up with traditional definitions of transparency. A report released Wednesday suggests that Airbnb manipulated listing data in New York City prior to publicly releasing that data to regulators in December, in an effort to quell concerns that the platform was enabling professional…
Stuart Isett/Fortune Global ForumVenture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc AndreessenFacebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are speaking out against the comments of board member Marc Andreessen, who infuriated people on Twitter Tuesday night with his comments about the social network’s “Free Basics” program in India. Free Basics provides limited internet services at no cost to people…
Almost half of the top 20 employers whose workers contributed to the Sanders campaign last year were companies in Silicon Valley, the Wall Street Journal reports, including Google, Apple, and Microsoft. He received almost $105,000 from employees of the five largest tech firms in the last three months of 2015. The wider trend of smaller…
For nearly a decade, one way The New York Times has shared the story of the technology industry and its impact on our lives has been through a blog called Bits. Today we are bidding farewell to the blog, though not to the journalism that has sustained it. When Bits was born, blogs were the…
Amid corporate turmoil and an uncertain future, Twitter is taking another step to protect its users from harassment, the latest in its series of attempts to balance free speech and personal safety. On Tuesday the company announced in a blog post that it had created the Twitter Trust and Safety Council, with which it will consult…
cache hit 500:single/related:ee9a377d23910d5c96a7168043ad3e87 empty On the Adwords Google+ page, Google just announced a timeline for banishing Flash from its advertising network, announcing that “Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are now going 100% HTML5.” Starting on June 30, 2016, Google will no longer accept new Flash display ads from advertisers. On January 2, 2017, even old Flash ads…