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Last June, the technology industry cringed as California’s legislature passed a new data privacy law that will give residents more control over how their personal data is used by Facebook, Google and other big ...
Didi Chuxing is restructuring for the second time in a year, placing new emphasis on safety and user experience to jump-start domestic growth in its ride-hailing business.
The management changes, which include a new chief safety officer and a new chief customer officer, come after two passengers were killed in separate incidents in China last year, leading to a drop in business. At the same ...
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Alice Huiwen Yang
on Free TV With Ads Is Digital Media’s Old New Idea
Ad-supported free streaming services doesn't come after YouTube's budget, they're eyeing on billions of traditional TV dollar. Traditional TV buy is usually done in audience-demo basis, which is not as efficient comparing to digital video media buy. With better audience addressability with IP-delivery and user's account information, digital video is devouring more and more shares from TV's plate.
Ran Raichman
on Apple, Facebook Messaging Rivalry Hints at Intensifying Services Battle
Another reason why Snap could be a very interesting acquisition for Apple, providing a boost on both messaging and AR. Would be thier biggest acquisition ever but Apple can spare $10-$15bn.
Shaun Abrahamson
on At CES, New Questions Emerge as Self-Driving Ambitions Narrow
Seems like the shuttle services benefit because there are "cheats codes" available to them like road markings, dedicated lanes, ability to operate at lower speeds or simply stop vs avoid obstacles. Getting more optimistic that this is where we will see initial use case.
Michael Leach
on A 5G Smartphone Revival? Not So Fast
Outside the U.S. 5G will be largely subsidized by content providers through zero-rating and subscription commitments. It's the new cable box.
In 10 years we'll look back and wonder why anyone even paid for the hardware.
Terrell Johnson
on Social Media Backlash Leaves Pinterest Vulnerable
I hope Pinterest succeeds if for no other reason than they're kind of the Bailey Building & Loan of the social media/search/discovery world. They give publishers and smaller sites/businesses at least one place to go without having to "crawl to Potter" (Facebook & Google).
Alice Huiwen Yang
on China’s ByteDance to Challenge Facebook
Facebook has a robust ad buying platform (Facebook Ads Manager) for years and it serves individuals who want to promote a local event to the world's largest advertisers with millions of ad dollars.
Bytedance still service advertisers in direct-IOs, which means they need to manually setup the campaign with their own campaign managers one by one after long negotiations of terms and details. Its scale and and efficiency are not going to catch up even in 2019.
Thus I think Bytedance's monetization effort will more closely resemble Snapchat than Facebook.
Timothy Campos
on Zuckerberg to Have Biggest Impact on Tech in 2019, Subscribers Say
An interesting consequence of the perception that FB is a monopoly is the disregard for the unintended consequences of regulating it. While FB is likely going to be at the center of the debate around privacy regulation, the effects of regulation are much more likely to benefit FB and other large tech players than small emerging ones.