On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fan...
An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in “building mode”, AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more
Few brands in tech can say they've shaped the internet for three decades. Yahoo can. … Rob Wilk : Great story featuring Jim Lanzone and the progress we're making every day here at...
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs
but the emerging field is mired in copyright issues Gerui Wang / Forbes : Runway AI Is Changing Animation. How To Use It To Tell Untold Stories Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4l...
eMarketer expects Google's share of the US search ad market to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, Apple, and others make gains
Biggest US antitrust victory since Microsoft could still be too little … Yahoo Finance : Google's grip on search slips as TikTok and AI startup mount challenge Radhika Saraogi / Ti...
eMarketer: Google's share of the US search ad market is expected to drop below 50% in 2025 for the first time in 10+ years, as Amazon, TikTok, and others rise
A flurry of new offerings for advertisers is hitting the market — Google's grip on the nearly $300 billion search advertising business is loosening.
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on the DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, limits bundling services, prohibits self-preferencing, and more
The European Union today adopted landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world's largest technology platforms …
Apple and Google criticize the newly unveiled Digital Markets Act that will force companies designated as gatekeepers to open up their platforms to competitors
the apps ATT matters the most for will just leave the App Store, rendering ATT effectively useless Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : @matrixdotorg ... If your messaging standard does not...
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on the DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, limits bundling services, prohibits self-preferencing, and more
The European Union today adopted landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world's largest technology platforms …
Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold
managed by obscure entities at the center of the stock market called clearinghouses — kicked in Thursday, forcing Robinhood to find emergency cash to continue to be able to trade.”...
Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019
Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019
Trader known as DeepF—ingValue on the WallStreetBets forum helped turn the investing world upside down. “I didn't expect this.”
Profile of Dina Srinivasan, who is helping Texas AG's antitrust investigation of Google after her treatises on Facebook and Google reframed antitrust thinking
Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google …
Profile of Josh Zimmerman, a life coach for influencers, who says his clients' careers have become more consuming, uncertain, and scrutinized during COVID-19
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times : Tweets: @ashkan , @thecreatorcoach , @faris , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , and @taylorlorenz Tw...
NBCUniversal's movie ticketing company Fandango has agreed to buy Walmart's on-demand video streaming service Vudu for an undisclosed sum
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Experts say social distancing directives, likely to continue in some form after the COVID-19 crisis, could prompt various industries to accelerate automation
Broad unease about losing jobs to machines could dissipate as people focus on the benefits of minimizing close human contact.
Gupta Media: Facebook's worldwide CPM hit an all-time low of $1.95 on Tuesday; the average US CPM has remained below $3 since March 22, its lowest in two years
a disaster for the publishing industry. Prices for ads on Facebook & Instagram are down by more than 50% in the last month. https://twitter.com/... Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / @ashkan ...
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY
We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
Alphabet reports Q4 net income of $10.67B, up from $8.95B YoY, fiscal year 2019 revenues of $162B, up 18% YoY, discloses new Search, YouTube, and Cloud revenues
up 36 percent from 2018 and 86 percent compared to 2017. https://abc.xyz/... https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : Now we know why Google was making even more of its ...
TheSoul, a Russian web publisher with YouTube channels like 5-Minute Crafts, has the most reach among entertainment groups on YouTube, after Disney, WarnerMedia
by Russians. Although most content is apolitical, they also post videos that are overtly pro-Russian — with millions of views. #DefendOurDemocracy #InformationWarfare #PsyOps https...
TheSoul, a Russian web publisher with YouTube channels like 5-Minute Crafts, has the most reach among entertainment groups on YouTube, after Disney, WarnerMedia
by Russians. Although most content is apolitical, they also post videos that are overtly pro-Russian — with millions of views. #DefendOurDemocracy #InformationWarfare #PsyOps https...