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Elon Musk’s plans to limit API access might be good for Twitter’s business, but it’s bad for the open internet

  By Chris Stokel-Walker February 09, 2023 Elon Musk’s travails over whether or not to allow free, unfettered access to Twitter’s APIs has, as would be expected, taken plenty of twists and turns. On February 2, Musk gave notice that free access to APIs would be removed within a week. Then he decided accounts could … Continue reading Elon Musk’s plans to limit API access might be good for Twitter’s business, but it’s bad for the open internet

FTC orders Mastercard to open debit transactions to competing payment networks

EU charges Apple over NFC payment restrictions on iOS devices   Matt Brian @m4tt As the European Commission continues to look into whether Apple has abused its market dominance by restricting mobile payments on iOS devices, Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager today confirmed that it has formally charged the iPhone maker, which could result in a … Continue reading FTC orders Mastercard to open debit transactions to competing payment networks

Open Door B2B: Brands Should Reduce Gated Content, Study Says

Open Door B2B: Brands Should Reduce Gated Content, Study Says by Ray Schultz , Columnist, July 15, 2022 Only 3.5% of visitors to B2B sites fill out forms, according to a new study by 6sense Research. And the form-to-conversion rate hovers around that same percentage.  Don’t despair — the percentages should be even lower.  That’s … Continue reading Open Door B2B: Brands Should Reduce Gated Content, Study Says

Yahoo and DIRECTV open up addressable TV and streaming inventory

The partnership will provide access to 25 million addressable TV households through combined DIRECTV, DISH Media and Fios plugged into the Yahoo DSP. Chris Wood on June 21, 2022 Yahoo and DIRECTV announced a partnership for advertisers looking to bridge the linear and CTV divide, making 25 million TV households addressable for advertisers using the … Continue reading Yahoo and DIRECTV open up addressable TV and streaming inventory

This is Elon Musk’s opportunity to make Twitter users more open minded

By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic   April 28, 2022 Elon Musk is one of the most widely spoken about people in the world, the richest person in the world ($266 billion), and the man behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and now Twitter (as reported in Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post). His seemingly spontaneous and unfiltered tweets (which included calling … Continue reading This is Elon Musk’s opportunity to make Twitter users more open minded

You can still open your dream coffee shop, but you might have to move first

By David Landsel   April 20, 2022     When Cincinnati-born brothers Tony and Austin Ferrari decided to open the coffee shop of their dreams in 2019, they landed almost immediately on the city’s Camp Washington neighborhood. There, tucked into a residential section at the heart of this isolated, working-class area—until then, known best for … Continue reading You can still open your dream coffee shop, but you might have to move first