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Updated with Facebook, Google and Twitter responses: It’s common knowledge that advertisers can find niche target audiences on Facebook, but a recent investigation found some of those advertisers could use hate speech terms including “Jew Hater” to reach people with beliefs most …
Facebook will stop running ads on, well, just about anything controversial
Facebook Inc. is taking more steps to make its social network a cleaner, more well-lighted site for advertisers, this time not by removing certain content, but by not allowing content it deems inappropriate to make money from ads. In a blog post …
Google’s power is again under fire as Yelp seeks help from FTC
Review site Yelp Inc. is hoping the U.S. Federal Trade Commission will take action against Google Inc. regarding its accusation that the search engine giant is violating a 2013 agreement not to scrape images from Yelp or other websites in its own …
GM is about to start mass-producing the first ‘real’ self-driving cars
General Motors Co. and its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise Automation said today that they’re ready to mass-produce vehicles that already have fully autonomous hardware built in, meaning once the software is fully up to speed the cars will be good to go. …
Russian-based operation likely paid Facebook $100K for political ads during U.S. election
In another possible sign of attempted foreign interference in the U.S. presidential election, Facebook Inc. revealed on Wednesday that it’s likely a Russian operation spent $100,000 on ads to promote certain views to targeted U.S. citizens. According to a report in the Washington …
Tech leaders again oppose Trump after decision to end DACA immigration program
Not for the first time since Donald Trump was elected president, leaders from some of the world’s biggest tech companies have united against him, this time in opposition to his call to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. On Tuesday, …
Uber now has a much cheaper rival in London called Taxify (updated)
Update: As of Friday, Sept. 8, Taxify had temporarily stopped its service while London’s transport authority investigates the company’s legal position. It’s early days for Estonian ride-hailing startup Taxify OÜ, but it has just moved into its second major western European market …
No ‘fast lanes,’ please: Apple finally chimes in on net neutrality
Apple Inc. has spoken out at last on the ongoing issue of net neutrality, asking the government to keep the current regulations in place. In the four-page filing to the Federal Communications Commission, Apple laid out its thoughts on how the FCC …
Google-funded think tank just axed a Google critic because he decried tech monopolization
Google Inc.’s ethics are under fire today after the company recently put pressure on one of its sponsored think tanks to fire a prominent academic who was critical about Google’s dominant position in search. The Washington-based think tank, called the New America …
‘The Walking Dead’ zombie apocalypse is coming to a street near you – in augmented reality
“Pokemon Go” shook the world last year with its lightweight chase-down game that had players flocking like zombies to public areas. Now, fictional zombies from the TV series “The Walking Dead” will come to life in a new augmented reality mobile game …