The people behind Paul Mitchell hair products and Patron tequila are launching a mobile carrier. ROK Mobile will be a smartphone-centric virtual operator, but it’s not focusing on data. It’s focusing… Read more »
Facebook’s director of product Mike Hudack posted a rant about the inadequacies of the media — including some new-media sites like Vox — and their focus on click-bait content, but many… Read more »
Metafilter, a pioneering online community, has been forced to lay off almost half of its moderation staff and is on financial life support after its traffic from Google suddenly declined by… Read more »
The Guardian has been experimenting with limited-edition printed newspapers that are produced by algorithms, based on the sharing habits of readers, and is rolling out a new version in the U.S… Read more »
The more Facebook tries to control the News Feed in order to make sure the content in it is “high quality” enough, the more likely it is to irritate users who… Read more »
Brands and prominent users like comedian Rainn Wilson are complaining about Facebook’s algorithm changes and how that forces them to pay money to reach their fans and followers — but Facebook… Read more »
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange and internet traffic are predominantly made up of bots. Humans’ relationships with them will continue to evolve. Read more »
Another study is reporting on the inaccuracy of Google Flu Trends project, which predicts seasonal flu rates based on search data. However, Google’s algorithms don’t constitute the “big data” approach to… Read more »
Many critics were eager to write Upworthy’s obituary based on recent traffic statistics that seemed to show the site was suffering due to a change in Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm, but that… Read more »
Automakers are building research vehicles that can take in vast amounts of data about their surroundings in a split second. Now it’s up to data scientists to figure how cars can… Read more »