Sources: Google is in talks with publishers, mostly outside the US, about paying a licensing fee for content that would be in a premium news product
The search giant is in talks with some publishers about paying a fee for content that would be part of a premium news product
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment
Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm s...
Facing mounting antitrust pressure, Google and Facebook have been cozying up to publishers, offering oft-requested fees and news-ranking changes
Facing mounting antitrust probes, tech platforms offer fees, news-ranking changes media outlets have pursued for years Tweets: @buzzfeedben Tweets: Ben Smith / @buzzfeedben : Didn'...
How Amazon's subcontracted delivery network allows it to shed responsibility for exploitative working conditions and accidents caused while delivering packages
DarkCyber found a FedEx tag on the door to our office. Tweets: Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : Drivers have to deliver over 250 packages a day—a dizzying pace of less than 2 min/p...
How Amazon's subcontracted delivery network allows it to shed responsibility for exploitative working conditions and accidents caused while delivering packages
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans.
How Amazon's subcontracted delivery network allows it to shed responsibility for exploitative working conditions and accidents caused while delivering packages
Deaths and devastating injuries. A litany of labor violations. Drivers forced to urinate in their vans. Tweets: @a_w_gordon , @jasonleopold , and @buzzfeedben Tweets: Aaron W. Go...
The Sri Lankan government and civil society groups say that Facebook has failed for years to monitor and remove accounts inciting ethnic violence in Sri Lanka
DIGANA, Sri Lanka — When the Sri Lankan government temporarily blocked access to Facebook last month amid a wave of violence against Muslims … Tweets: @profgalloway , @miqdaad , @r...