By Rob Walker February 24, 2023 Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. What is social media worth? Not to investors—we know the market valuations of the most familiar social media companies can reach hundreds of billions, even despite recent weakness among tech stocks—but to … Continue reading Why social media companies picked a very tricky time to start charging users
Gmail Users Are Not Receiving Emails Synching With Microsoft Servers: Report February 22, 2023 By Sergiu Gatlan Google is investigating a service outage caused when Gmail accounts are syncing with Microsoft servers. Gmail users on affected devices say they are not receiving emails. Hotmail accounts are also affected. Google is investigating a service outage … Continue reading Gmail Users Are Not Receiving Emails Synching With Microsoft Servers: Report
T-Mobile data breach compromised 37 million customers’ data Mariella Moon @mariella_moon T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the … Continue reading T-Mobile outage affected thousands of users across the US
Under the new Bing terms of service Microsoft claims rights over inputs and outputs that may conflict with copyright law. Constantine von Hoffman on February 9, 2023 On Tuesday Microsoft loudly announced the new AI-fueled version of Bing. At the same time it quietly published a new version of the search engine’s terms of service, … Continue reading New TOS for AI-powered Bing poses legal issues for Microsoft and users
By Christopher Zara December 13, 2022 Twitter users who were verified under the old system that was in effect before Elon Musk took control of the company are discovering this week that they still have their blue badges, albeit with a slightly less enthusiastic description. “This account is a legacy verified account,” says a … Continue reading ‘May or may not be notable’: Verified Twitter users are ushered into legacy limbo
Unifying first-party data in the CDP helps authenticate users and quickly improve their experiences. Chris Wood on December 22, 2022 Less than two years ago, Penske Media Corporation (PMC) began implementing a customer data profile (CDP) from Treasure Data to unify data across big-name titles like Billboard, Rolling Stone and Variety. PMG has 130m unique … Continue reading How Penske Media uses a CDP to help advertisers reach digital users
Ex-Google Exec’s Search Engine Neeva Reaches 1M Users, Expands Into Canada by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, December 15, 2022 Privacy search engine Neeva last year committed 20% of its revenue to online publishers and content creators. Now with 1 million monthly users, up from 600,000 following its launch in U.K., France, and Germany last October, the … Continue reading Ex-Google Exec’s Search Engine Neeva Reaches 1M Users, Expands Into Canada
Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Google Of ‘Spying’ On Android Users by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, December 2, 2022 Google has again defeated a lawsuit brought by two Android users who accused the company of “spying” on them by collecting information about their use of outside companies’ apps. In a decision issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge … Continue reading Judge Throws Out Lawsuit Accusing Google Of ‘Spying’ On Android Users
By Chris Morris December 01, 2022 While many Twitter users are making a lot of noise about terminating their accounts and heading elsewhere, they’re quickly finding that the alternatives aren’t quite ready for prime time—and certainly aren’t prepared for the major influx of users they’ve seen since late October. And the problem may not … Continue reading Twitter alternatives struggle with growing pains as users flee Elon Musk’s social media platform
New Tool Allows Gmail Users To Send Mass Personalized Email by Ray Schultz , October 12, 2022 Software Design Team Inc. has debuted GMerge, a web-based software tool that enables Gmail and Google Workspace users to send mass personalized email using Gmail addresses. GMerge users can send an email campaign from Gmail or Google Workspace accounts … Continue reading New Tool Allows Gmail Users To Send Mass Personalized Email
