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Controversial daylight-blocking iPhone billboard removed from window
Residents in a London apartment block are waking up to daylight from windows for first time in three years…
NBC extends deal to be exclusive seller of ads in Apple Stocks and Apple News
NBCUniversal has extended its partnership with Apple News to now be the exclusive seller of ads in Apple’s Stocks app, as well as Apple News…
iPhone users could get £750 from Google ‘illegal’ tracking of data, including race, health, politics and sexuality
Google siphoned personal data, including information on physical and mental heath, political affiliations, sexuality and sexual interests from iPhone users…
Clickjacking scripts found on 613 popular sites, academics say
Scripts that intercept mouse clicks are being used for ad fraud or to redirect users to malicious sites, according to…
U.S. appeals court voids Google ‘cookie’ privacy settlement that paid Safari, Explorer browser users nothing
A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down Google’s class-action settlement meant to resolve claims it invaded the privacy of millions of computer users…
Microsoft hires man named ‘Mac Book’ to pimp Surface Laptop 2
Microsoft went to great lengths to find an actual human named Mac Book to…
Apple debuts privacy-focused iPhone campaign in Germany
In Germany, according to Ipsos Public Affairs’ Internet Security & Trust Global Survey (2019) a total of 68%…
Brave defies Google’s moves to kill ad-blocking
Brave, the Chromium-based browser developed by Firefox co-founder and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, thinks there’s a better way of handling ad-blocker…
Google still plans to cripple ad-blocking in Chrome, but enterprises will be exempt
Google has clarified proposed changes to the Chrome browser that some developers fear will cripple ad blockers…
Steve Jobs rejected over 200 ‘Get a Mac’ ads
John Hodgman’s buttoned-up PC and Justin Long‘s relaxed Mac traded passive-aggressive barbs
Loup Ventures: There are now 383 million Apple Pay users, up 135% year-over-year
So far, 43% of global iPhone users have enabled Apple Pay…
Apple debuts Memoji-themed ads featuring Florida Georgia Line, Khalid, and Ariana Grande ahead of Grammys telecast
The Grammys will be broadcast by CBS on Sunday, February 10th…
Apple Music memoji-themed billboards appear ahead of Grammy awards
Capitalizing on the publicity around next Sunday’s Grammy Awards, Apple is running a series of billboards…
Apple is prepping an iOS change that may hurt AR and VR advertising
Advertising agency employees who work on augmented reality and virtual reality are worried…
Apple debuts three new ads for Apple Pay (with video)
Apple today debuted three new ads for Apple Pay on the company’s…
Hackers infiltrate California family’s Nest surveillance camera, send warning of incoming North Korea missile attack
Laura Lyons was preparing food in her kitchen Sunday when the lazy afternoon took a turn for the absurd…
Apple’s biggest challenge isn’t the iPhone, it’s the Mac
Apple has a huge opportunity…
Apple debuts new ad for iPhone XR: ‘Color Flood’
Apple has debuted a new ad for iPhone XR titled “Color Flood” in which thousands of…
U.S. regulators sue Facebook over Cambridge Analytica scandal
Nine months after a whistleblower revealed Facebook had allowed outsiders to improperly access personal information…
Apple Store app sends push notification promoting new iPhone XR and XS models
Apple on Thursday sent out a rare push notification promoting its latest iPhone XR and XS models…
Apple seems to be seriously increasing spending on iPhone TV ads this year
Apple has raised its spending on iPhone advertising by a factor of…
I went to an Apple store to find out if the employees are stupid like Samsung claims
To market its new Note 9, the Korean handset maker is again mocking Apple’s Geniuses…
Apple is losing its personality under Tim Cook, warns former creative director
Without Steve Jobs, Apple is losing its personality…
Mark Zuckerberg loses $16 billion in record Facebook fall
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took an almost $16 billion hit on Thursday…
Facebook stock plunges as users vanish
Facebook Inc’s stock fell as much as 24 percent after hours on Wednesday over concerns…
Samsung is absolutely terrified of Apple’s iPhone X
Samsung is afraid of the new iPhone X in a year when its flagship, the Galaxy S9, hasn’t been able to meet internal goals…
California’s data privacy law highlights growing frustration with tech industry
Driven by everything from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandals…
Apple debuts new TV commercial for iPhone X: ‘Memory’
Apple has debuted a new television commercial for iPhone X called “memory” on U.S. cable and broadcast networks…
California lawmakers approve data-privacy bill despite opposition from Google, Facebook, advertisers
California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed data privacy legislation aimed at giving consumers more control…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
The best tech ads of the last 35 years
Last week the Association of Independent Commercial Producers announced the winners of its annual awards honoring…
Ad tech execs and app marketers don’t think Apple can sell ads without data collection
As Apple reportedly weighs another ad network bid, some industry figures are skeptical of the company’s chances…
Spike Jonze’s brilliant ad for Apple’s HomePod wins major advertising award
Apple’s brilliantly creative HomePod ad won the…
Apple celebrates – *GASP!* – the Mac in new “Behind the Mac’ videos
Behind the Mac people are making wonderful things and so could you…
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Apple’s Safari browser leads the privacy battle
Apple’s decision to put an army into the war against ads tracking and surreptitious finger-printing techniques…
Apple can’t protect you from data trackers forever. No one can
Apple hit a high point for privacy last week…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Apple borks Facebook’s pervasive personal data-harvesting operation
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook…