AT&T just rolled out blazing fast fiber-to-home internet service in Kansas City for $70 a month. But there’s a catch: customers who don’t want the telecom giant spying on their web surfing will… Read more »
A company called Ultramercial has for years claimed that a monopoly over an “invention” for showing pre-roll ads on the internet, and sued the likes of Hulu and YouTube for royalty… Read more »
Search engines are making it harder to see the difference between regular results and paid ads. Does the FTC have the power to do something? Or can consumers figure it out… Read more »
Even the biggest media companies are being buffeted by the task of collecting and using mass amounts of consumer and audience information — even as the media business itself continues to… Read more »
Facebook just broke ties with two companies that helped it collect information about app revenues because they breached Facebook’s rules on using customer data. Read more »
Big publishers like Time and USA Today are posting “stories” on their web sites that are really ads. Taboola, a company responsible for distributing those ads, is promising more transparency by… Read more »
Google and now Microsoft are moving towards an ad strategy that leaves third party cookies behind. The move is likely to bring a shift in power in the ad industry of… Read more »
Do a growing number of “cord-cutters” and “cord-nevers” mean the TV business is about to be battered like other traditional industries? Media investor Terry Kawaja doesn’t think so. Here’s why. Read more »
The Hopper, a Dish DVR that lets users skip large blocks of ads, remains legal in New York after a judge refused to issue a preliminary injunction against the service. In… Read more »
Reader response about what we like and dislike is a powerful tool for the algorithms that decide what stories shouldappear before us on the internet. Now, a new feature lets readers… Read more »