Monday July 14, 2025 Linda Yaccarino departed X last week with sunny words about her tumultuous term. “After two incredible years, I’ve decided to step down as CEO of X,” posted Yaccarino on the social media platform. “When @elonmusk and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity […]
Monday July 7, 2025 A group of independent publishers has issued an EU antitrust complaint against Google for its AI Overviews, reports Reuters. The AI-generated summaries that appear above traditional hyperlinks to relevant webpages are “misusing web content… which have caused, and continue to cause, significant harm to publishers, including news publishers in the form […]
Monday June 23, 2025 Dentsu is expanding its dentsu Sports & Entertainment offerings with the international launch of dentsu anime solutions, the expansion of dentsu Sports Analytics into MENA, and the growth of strategic dentsu Sports & Entertainment hubs. Leading the expansion, Yoshinobu Ise has been appointed as the Global Head of Sports & Entertainment, […]
Monday June 16, 2025 Entertainment studio Cineverse’s newly formed Cineverse Technology Group has officially launched CineSearch for Business, and AI-powered content search and discovery tool that is now available for commercial licensing to OEMs and streaming platforms. CineSearch was developed using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform and Gemini 2.0 Pro model. Havas Media Network announced […]
Monday June 9, 2025 Snapchat has released an Apple Watch app, enabling users to not only read messages on their wrist, but reply to them using Keyboard, Scribble, Dictation or emoji. “The number of devices we use in our daily lives has grown,” notes the company in a blog post. “Already we’re seeing our community […]
Monday June 2, 2025 The pace and scope of change related to the artificial intelligence technology evolution is unprecedented, according to a report from VC firm Bond titled “Trends – Artificial Intelligence.” Take OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which the report calls “history’s biggest ‘overnight’ success (nine years post-founding).” Unlike the Internet 1.0 revolution, where technology started in […]
Monday May 19, 2025 Microsoft will shut down its demand-side platform, Invest (fka Xandr), by March of next year, as the company focuses on AI priorities. “We are entering a new era — one defined by conversational AI experiences, agentic systems that simplify decision making and bring brands closer to people, and predictive design models […]
Monday May 12, 2025 The FTC has voted to delay enforcement of the click-to-cancel rule requiring companies to make it as easy for customers to cancel a subscription as it was for them to sign up. The Negative Option Rule went into effect on January 19, but the start of enforcement, first delayed until May […]
Monday May 5, 2025 Apple experienced “limited impact” from President Trump’s tariffs in the most recent quarter, reported CEO Tim Cook. While Cook acknowledged to investors that he couldn’t predict what impact of tariffs will have moving forward, should circumstances remain the same, tariffs would add a reasonable $900 million to the company’s costs next […]
Monday April 28, 2025 Google announced it will not be phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome after all (at least not yet), abandoning its plan to introduce a “user choice” button in the browser this year. “We’ve made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party cookie choice in Chrome, and […]