Privacy Concerns

Our friend and colleague Ethan Zuckerman has written an important piece I’d like to draw your attention to. In a piece for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, he lays out what he calls the case for digital public infrastructure. (He also publish…

With the US cracking down and banning Huawei, the Chinese tech company has had to become a bit creative in sourcing partners for certain features for their phones. Previously, Huawei partnered with Google to provide Huawei users with the navigation tools and …

With the US cracking down and banning Huawei, the Chinese tech company has had to become a bit creative in sourcing partners for certain features for their phones. Previously, Huawei partnered with Google to provide Huawei users with the navigation tools and …

Mojo Vision Reveals XR Contact Lens The Washington Post via Getty Images Do you remember Google Glass? First announced in 2012 as the next step in smart technology, it died a painful death as a consumer tech gadget in early 2015. Killed off by premature hyp…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin It seems hard to believe that a decade ago, there was no Siri, a chatbot was a rare sight and computers that held intelligent conversations really was science fiction. OK…

In 2016 LiveRamp paid roughly $140 million for two companies, Arbor and Circulate, that helped the company improve “people based marketing” and deterministic identity resolution. Last quarter, according to AdExchanger, it divested the location-data component …

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Influencer Dashboard newsletter after our holiday hiatus!  This is Amanda Perelli and I'll be briefing you on what's new in the business of influencers. Before we get started, I want to first introduce a new reporter o…

PanasonicThe smart home category of products is one of the fastest-growing industries in the tech world. As one would expect, CES 2020 was bursting at the seams with smart home gear, so we thought we’d round up the best smart home tech we saw at the show. As…

Google announces new privacy options at CES 2020 in Las Vegas dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is underway in Las Vegas, and Google has already used CES 2020 as an opportunity to confirm a "continuing commitme…

Walmart’s growing media business faces familiar advertiser gripes of lacking transparency and control.Over the course of 2019, the company took control of its ads business, moving it in-house from Triad and bolstering its internal sales team. Now, the company…