June 26, 2024 Verizon’s new logo turns it into Netflix 9 years after a controversial rebrand, Verizon is back with a new look and bigger ambitions. BY Mark Wilson Today, Verizon is announcing a new logo and updated brand system. Gone is the Verizon electricity-inspired checkmark, which has been with the brand in some permutation … Continue reading Verizon’s new logo turns it into Netflix
April 26, 2024 Tech earnings week turns around after Google, Microsoft, and Snap delight Wall Street After a weak start to earnings season from Netflix and Meta, tech companies saw their fortunes reverse to close out the week on a high note. BY Michael Grothaus Until late (May 15, 2024), major tech stocks were having a … Continue reading Tech earnings week turns around after Google, Microsoft, and Snap delight Wall Street
April 20, 2024 This AI turns novels into hypnotic dreams Hypnovels is trippy and fun. Whether it can help authors sell books is another story. BY Michael Grothaus Most people who read a lot will tell you that many of the novels they love are way better than the ones on the various “best books of … Continue reading This AI turns novels into hypnotic dreams
By Chris Morris February 04, 2024 Twenty years ago today, in the Kirkland House dormitory of Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg rolled out a social network for students at the school. The site ran on a single server, which cost Zuck $85 per month to keep running. Within a week, more than 650 students had … Continue reading As Facebook turns 20, here’s a look back at the first newspaper articles ever written about it
By Jennifer Alsever October 05, 2023 Lying is becoming pretty standard throughout the job interview process—and it’s especially prevalent among more educated candidates, higher earners, and even company hiring managers, according to new surveys. As many as 70% of workers said they have lied on their resumes, with 37% admitting that they lie frequently, … Continue reading Who lies on resumes more often? High earners and workers with advanced degrees, it turns out
Firefox Turns On New Cookie-Blocking Feature by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, June 15, 2022 In its latest attempt to prevent online tracking, Mozilla has turned on a new cookie-blocking tool by default in the Firefox browser. The new tool, “Total Cookie Protection,” aims to prevent ad-tech companies from mingling data collected across websites by creating separate … Continue reading Firefox Turns On New Cookie-Blocking Feature
Giide Turns Interactive Audio Into Performance Marketing by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 29, 2022 Allison Kent-Smith, CEO and co-founder of Giide, describes the company as an interactive audio unit — one that does not remain still. As the audio plays, the visual continues to scroll through slides, keeping the attention of the viewer. … Continue reading Giide Turns Interactive Audio Into Performance Marketing
Neeva Search Engine Turns On NewsGuard Service by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 2, 2021 Neeva, an ad-free subscription-based search startup founded by former head of Google advertising, Sridhar Ramaswamy, has inked a deal with NewsGuard, which provides credibility ratings and detailed “Nutrition Labels” for thousands of news and information websites. The deal gives Neeva users … Continue reading Neeva Search Engine Turns On NewsGuard Service
Frank Bocchino — April 15, 2020 Working from home offers many benefits: from overhead cost-cutting to providing improved employee productivity and morale. According to one study, 85 percent of businesses confirm that productivity has increased in their business because of greater flexibility. What’s more, 63 percent of those surveyed report at least a 21 percent … Continue reading B2B Strategy: COVID-19 Turns Heads to the Clouds
A spokesperson said Facebook is working to restore the Groups mistakenly taken down. Amy Gesenhues on May 17, 2019 A Reddit thread on Wednesday called attention to many Facebook Groups’ privacy settings being changed to “secret.” The post generated more than 450 comments, with rumors that many Groups had been attacked by a spammer posting … Continue reading Turns out some groups axed by Facebook for content violations were actually hacked
