Predicting A Future Free Of Dollar Bills | TechCrunch
Picture the scene. It’s 2020. You’re at the checkout in a convenience store with a carton of milk. But you’ve got no cash and you’ve left your cards..
Seeing More Politics in Your News Feed? Facebook Boosts Partisan Sites
Media sites with political bents have been some of the biggest winners of the Facebook publisher bump, drawing huge increases in comments and shares.
Google Earnings Preview: Revenue Growth From Mobile To Buoy Results
Google is set to release its Q2 2014 earnings on Thursday, July 17. In Q1, the company posted that its revenues grew by over 19% year over year. The result failed to enthuse the market which was expecting far better growth in both the top line and the bottom line. The primary reason for this was a decline in cost per click, which has been in a long-term decline for the past two years. However, this decline was offset to some extent by the adoption of its enhanced campaigns program that combines marketing campaigns across mobile desktop and laptops, i.e. across screens of different sizes.
The vile threats of sex and violence that men use against women online
Police who are accustomed to men threatening women in person with guns and knives have a harder time figuring out what to do about online threats, wrote Hess. Time reporter Catherine Mayer, who got an online bomb threat, was told by police to just stay offline — hardly plausible for a professional whose work requires an online presence.
When cellphones and social media become the enemy
There’s a moment in “Boyhood,” the new movie by Richard Linklater, when the boy in question, an eighth-grader, asks his mother for permission to attend a party that won’t have adult supervision. Reluctantly, she agrees, saying it’s OK as long as he takes his cellphone.
Public Displays of Transaction
How Venmo became the ultimate social network for voyeurs and gossips
Consumer Opt-out | NAI: Network Advertising Initiative
NAI members are committed to transparency and choice. The NAI opt-out tool was developed in conjunction with our members for the express purpose of allowing consumers to “opt out” of the Interest-Based Advertising delivered by our members.
Clueful – Privacy Monitoring App for iPhone
Cluefullueful for Android is a FREE product that shows you how installed apps use, and possibly abuse, your personal information and treat your PRIVACY.
You’d be surprised how many things an app can learn about you. Without you ever knowing it.
Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block – ProPublica
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
This Is How Your Financial Data Is Being Used to Serve You Ads
Everyone in advertising is buying exhaustive records of your purchases—all your purchases—and comparing them to your viewing habits so that they know which ads you saw and whether or not they changed your behavior.
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