The San Francisco Examiner filed a lawsuit alleging that the city's dominant daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has slashed advertising prices to stifle competition.
Election 2016: How Big Data + Social Data Will Determine the Next President
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As our nation ramps up for 2016, the role of big data + social data in influencing election decisions cannot be ignored.
Sen. Rockefeller to push for Do Not Track at hearing
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) will hold a hearing April 24 to push for a feature that would allow users to opt out of online tracking.
Recalculating the privacy debate after Google Maps penalty
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By now, consumers and citizens may have detected a pattern: New technologies allow new types of privacy invasions, which then lead to ad hoc remedies – until the next type of intrusion. As the string of Google violations shows – along with dozens of new privacy laws passed since the 1970s – the pace of this cat-and-mouse privacy quest has quickened in the Digital Age.
CBS Bans SodaStream Ad. Where’s The Outrage?
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CBS banned SodaStream’s Super Bowl spot because, apparently, it was too much of a direct hit to two of its biggest sponsors, Coke and Pepsi.
Battle lines drawn in online search war
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The battle lines in the new search wars have now been drawn.
Resignation Suggests Rift Between CNET and CBS
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A senior writer for CNET, the technology news Web site, resigned less than an hour after a report suggested that CNET was barred from presenting an award to a company being sued by CBS, which owns CNET.