Facebook’s Audience Optimization yields extensive, sometimes surprising data on what people talk about.
Who is more popular, Jimmy Page or Katy Perry?
Facebook’s Audience Optimization yields extensive, sometimes surprising data on what people talk about.
Who is more popular, Jimmy Page or Katy Perry?
The messaging app seeks to stimulate revenue growth, with a focus on amassing users in Asia rather than Europe or the U.S.
The Line messaging app, a Japanese rival to WhatsApp and WeChat, is working on a digital butler service in its quest to better monetize and compete with its peers, TechCrunch reports. The product will be unveiled in Thailand later this month, and will make its way to other markets shortly after if successful.
The web giant is still struggling. Change is inevitable. What form will it take, and when will we know about it?
On February 2, Yahoo will announce its financial results for the last quarter of 2015 and the full year, and will hold a webcast to discuss them. But to an unusual degree, what people are waiting to hear about isn’t how the company’s been doing, or what its expectations are for the next quarter. They want to know about its future—which could involve the company getting broken up in various ways, shrinking, and/or making major changes to its management and board.
On the day that Joe Biden convenes new Cancer Moonshot task force, White House says his budget will propose big boost for research.
Working on a cure for cancer is emerging as a top initiative of President Obama’s final year in office. Since the formal announcement of the goal in the State of the Union address, the White House effort, under Vice President Joe Biden, has been moving fast. The VP convenes the first meeting of a special task force today, pulling together five federal departments and various other agencies and bodies. And just this morning, according to sources including the Washington Post the White House reported that it will request an extra $1 billion in funding in the next two years for its Cancer Moonshot initiative.
The Fine Brothers are feeling the backlash from an unpopular copyright maneuver on YouTube.
Ah, the Internet. Has there ever been a sword with two edges quite so long and sharp? On one hand, your funny YouTube videos can turn into an online media empire with millions of viewers. On the other, a single misstep can stir up an irate mob with the power to shout you down from your pedestal.
The social media giant plans to lean on its 1.6 billion users to report gun sales, the company says.
Although Facebook says it has banned sales of firearms on the service, it is relying on its giant user base to monitor the social network for violations of its new policy.
Disgruntled drivers in NYC are protesting Uber’s reduced fares with a daylong strike and a demonstration in Long Island City.
In response to Uber’s recent decision to slash fare prices in New York City by 15%, hundreds of Uber drivers are participating in a daylong strike on Monday. Coupled with the strike is an ongoing protest in Long Island City, where Uber’s NYC division is headquartered.
Thanks to strong revenue growth in Q4, Google’s parent company overtook Apple in after-hours trading.
The king is dead. Long live the king.
Meanwhile, Trump spent more on hats than on data.
Ted Cruz doesn’t have Donald Trump’s star power, but he may make up for it by having more science—data science—behind his campaign.