Tag: media
UK watchdog wants disclosure rules for political ads on social media
The UK’s data protection agency will push for increased transparency into how personal data flows between digital platforms to ensure people being targeted for...
Falcon.io buys Komfo from Sitecore as social media management consolidates
Falcon.io, a startup out of Denmark that helps businesses manage their presence across social media and messaging platforms, has acquired a competitor in a...
UK eyeing ‘extremism’ tax on social media giants
The UK government has kicked off the new year with another warning shot across the bows of social media giants. Read More
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Mumbrella, a media startup focused on APAC’s marketing industry, gets acquired
Inside baseball klaxon: media writing about media story incoming:: Mumbrella, the Australia-based media company, has been sold by its founders to U.S./APAC events company Diversified Communications....
Media startup Cheddar launches its TV channel in Europe with Molotov
Business news network Cheddar has been partnering with social media platforms and OTT services in the U.S. And Cheddar is now looking at international...
Media startup Axios raises another $20 million
There’s a glimpse of hope in new media as Axios just raised $ 20 million less than a year after its launch, the Wall...
Ambitious new media firm ByteDance is no longer a secret outside...
ByteDance is a name that is about to become very familiar to everyone in international tech circles. Really it should already be. It is...
Antisocial media?
As Facebook finds itself publicly on the hook for enabling Russian agents to spread divisive propaganda via its platform, be it in the form...
UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance
Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on...
Google acquires Relay Media to convert ordinary web pages to AMP...
AMP — Google’s collaborative project to speed up the loading time for mobile web pages — is getting an interesting acceleration of its own...