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UK-based activist group Brandalism has peppered the streets of Paris with 600 fake outdoor ads meant to expose the hypocrisy of COP21 Climate Conference corporate sponsors. The fake, unauthorized outdoor ads were strategically placed around Paris this past weekend, and were made to look nearly identical to the originals. The ads were prepared by an…
(Adds Reuters source, statement from Comcast, analyst comment) Nov 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Comcast Corp, the biggest U.S. cable TV provider, is hindering competition in cable advertising sales, a source told Reuters. The department’s Antitrust Division has sent documents known as civil investigative demands to…
On the list of things New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has a problem with: menstruation. On the list of things it’s apparently totally chill about: Nazis. Well, I guess that clears that up. Just a mere month ago, the MTA was the center of a controversy over its rejection of a campaign created by…
(courtesy Ann Toback) Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious. “Half the seats in my car had Nazi…
Yahoo Mail is purportedly locking out people who use ad-blockers. According to a post on Adblock Plus’ message boards, a Yahoo user noticed the issue on Google Chrome when trying to access email this morning, posting this screenshot: “Yeah, whatever Yahoo,” the person mused, adding that two other people noticed the issue, too. Advertisement Yahoo’s tactic…
Share on Facebook (1,237) Tweet (348) Share (98) Pin (2) The technology industry is flush with companies forecasting the rapid growth of cloud computing over the next five to 10 years. Now Google, a relatively small player in the cloud market, has chimed in. Urs Hölze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, predicted today at the Structure conference that Google’s cloud revenues would surpass its advertising…
Subway Restaurants’ former spokesman Jared Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison, three years more than the maximum sought by the government, after pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a deal that imposes lifetime supervision on the fallen sandwich pitchman. His sentencing Thursday in Indianapolis federal court largely ends a scandal…
Wikimedia Commons Last week, when Google’s head of news, Richard Gringras, introduced Accelerate Mobile Pages, the company’s new open-source project aimed at making the Web faster, he said its main objectives were to create a “deal-less environment” that’s “about making sure the World Wide Web is not the World Wide Wait.” The new model could…
Updated Nov. 11, 2015 7:31 p.m. ET Facebook FB -0.44 % is experimenting with new advertising approaches for its Instant Articles platform after publishers encountered challenges generating ad revenue because of restrictions imposed by the social network. Instant Articles, which Facebook rolled out to all iPhone users last month, allows media companies to publish content…
Bloomingdale’s has been criticised for a Christmas advert which implicitly encourages men to spike women’s drinks when they aren’t looking. The ad, which appeared in the store’s Christmas catalogue, shows a man staring at a woman with a sapcation reading: “Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking.” It has been criticised on Twitter…