jenncutter.bsky.social

I always side-eye internal stats but, like, also. . . is this really enough of an RoI for what these things cost? [embedded post]

2024-10-31 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Mark Zuckerberg says the company's AI-driven feed and video recommendations have led to an 8% increase in time spent on Facebook and a 6% increase on Instagram

Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal :

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I always side-eye internal stats but, like, also. . . is this really enough of an RoI for what these things cost? [embedded post]

2024-10-31 View on X

Meta Investor Relations

Meta reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $40.59B, net income up 35% YoY to $15.69B, and family daily active people up 5% YoY to 3.29B on average for September 2024

Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

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I refuse to look it up, but surely someone somewhere has a patent for force pausing and playing ads over my DVDs or played over VLC. — Cannot wait to root my ‘smart’ tv the second I find a good hack, too (see: roku apparently looking at playing ads over paused content of any type over HDMI) [embedded post]

2024-10-03 View on X

Financial Times

Amazon plans to increase the number of ads on Prime Video in 2025 after not seeing a sharp drop in subscribers since adding advertisements in January 2024

here's why Parker Herren / Ad Age : How streaming TV pricing and transparency issues are impacting advertisers William Hughes / AV Club : Excited Prime Video exec announces even mo...

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Lemme summarize: “We're not ignoring robots.txt! We're just specifically partnering with services that do. No, you can't know their names. It's fine! All you whiners can sit down, shut up, and like it.” [embedded post]

2024-06-23 View on X

Fast Company

In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers

* what we do is highly technical, you don't understand — * it wasn't us it was a third party service/contractor/vendor — https://www.fastcompany.com/ ... @bsmall2@mstdn.jp : Au...

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Lemme summarize: “We're not ignoring robots.txt! We're just specifically partnering with services that do. No, you can't know their names. It's fine! All you whiners can sit down, shut up, and like it.” [embedded post]

2024-06-22 View on X

Fast Company

In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers

The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …

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If you're unfamiliar with this story, it's a doozy. The phrase “other disturbing items” performs some heavy lifting. [embedded post]

2024-01-12 View on X

Associated Press

eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog

Online retailer eBay Inc. will pay a $3 million fine to resolve criminal charges over a harassment campaign waged by employees …

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2023-12-14 View on X

Bloomberg

Filing: Adobe says the US FTC is investigating its subscription cancellation rules and that a settlement may involve “significant monetary costs or penalties”

Adobe's subscription rules are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. …

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2023-12-14 View on X

CNBC

Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $5.05B, vs. $5.03B est., Digital Media revenue up 13% YoY to $3.72B, and FY 2024 guidance below est.; ADBE drops 5%+

- Adobe's fiscal fourth-quarter results surpassed expectations, but guidance for fiscal 2024 trailed estimates.

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