Vox

JUNE 29, 2023

At Cannes Lions advertising festival in 2023, AI dominated the conversation. The Cannes she was referring to isn’t the one you’ve probably heard of — the film festival — but rather Cannes Lions, a similarly swanky festival celebrating advertising instead of cinema. But everyone wants a reason to party and make deals at Cannes Lions.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

Brave, the open-source browser designed to prioritize privacy by blocking third-party ads and trackers, is facing criticism from users for redirecting URLs from cryptocurrency companies to affiliate links that Brave profits from, Decrypt reported. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. ref=35089877.

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Vox

APRIL 26, 2021

went live today with a highly anticipated, long-awaited privacy feature the company first announced way back in June 2020 : App Tracking Transparency. With App Tracking Transparency, apps will have to ask users for their permission to access Apple’s Identifier for Advertising (IDFA), a unique code assigned to mobile devices.

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Apple Open Source Advertising Development 98

CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 12, 2022

In the hyper-competitive telecommunications market, companies that don’t achieve these superlatives risk being left in the dust by competitors. Any one of our business units is almost a Fortune 100 company on its own. How important is open source software and the innovation it provides? Real-time data is air.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

On Wednesday, the company announced it would extend its ban on political ads for at least another month, and possibly longer, in an attempt to quell confusion over an election that President Donald Trump lost but still hasn’t conceded. These complaints usually lack evidence.). 4/4) — Rob Leathern (@robleathern) November 11, 2020.

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Vox

JUNE 22, 2020

Apple CEO Tim Cook introduces the company’s new operating systems at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The company’s new operating systems want you to know — and control — who’s watching you online. Apple is cracking down on what it allows other companies to know about you. Why would anyone choose to be tracked, you wonder?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Analyzing the hiring behaviors of companies on its platform, freelance work marketplace Upwork has AI to be the fastest growing category for 2023, noting that posts for generative AI jobs increased more than 1000% in Q2 2023 compared to the end of 2022, and that related searches for AI saw a more than 1500% increase during the same time.

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Vox

JANUARY 29, 2021

This week saw the latest exchange of words between the two companies in a standoff that’s been going on for months. In his keynote address, Cook never mentioned Facebook by name, but the target of his pointed remarks about data and advertising was obvious. Advertising existed and thrived for decades without it.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 18, 2024

Three of the ten startups in the accelerator that year (Remitly, Outreach, Zipline) went on to become billion-dollar companies — a 30% unicorn rate. This year’s cohort, under the direction of managing director Marius Ciocirlan , doubled in size to 24 companies. But the 2024 group may have a chance.

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Vox

APRIL 26, 2021

This new feature is a significant step for user privacy, as it gives people more control over their mobile phone app data and how it’s used by companies, like Facebook and Google, to target ads. Since 2012, apps developed for iOS have used an Identifier for Advertising (IDFA) to conduct tracking across different websites and apps.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 25, 2017

It’s been a busy year here at Ascent and we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2016 and recognize the accomplishments achieved by our portfolio companies throughout the year. In February, the Austrian-born, Boston-bred company named Jack Drew as its new vice president of sales and also announced the launch of native Docker support.

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The Investing Edge

JANUARY 25, 2017

It’s been a busy year here at Ascent and we’d like to take a moment to look back at 2016 and recognize the accomplishments achieved by our portfolio companies throughout the year. In February, the Austrian-born, Boston-bred company named Jack Drew as its new vice president of sales and also announced the launch of native Docker support.

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Company Retail Open Source Wireless 70

Vox

DECEMBER 9, 2020

On Wednesday, 48 attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Facebook, arguing that the company is a monopoly and that it should be forced to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp. No company should have this much unchecked power over our personal information and our social interactions.”.

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Vox

JULY 8, 2020

In the earlier days of the coronavirus pandemic, an animated map from a company called Tectonix went viral. But there was another story there that most of us can’t see: how trackers hidden in smartphone apps are the source of incredible amounts of specific data about us, much of which gets sent to companies you’ve never heard of.

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Advertising Data Mobile Development 145

Vox

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, is the first company to face an EU investigation under a new law designed to hold online platforms more accountable for harmful content. This test of the DSA’s reach could have real consequences for social media companies, and the outcome could change the experience of being online well beyond Europe.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 21, 2022

Treasury Department warning of a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) known as the Lazarus Group targeting cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The advisory notes that Lazarus will continue to exploit vulnerabilities of these companies as long as it can to support the North Korean regime.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2022

Just a few years ago, data scientists worked with the command line and a few good open source packages. Now companies are creating solid, professional tools that handle many of the common chores of data science, such as cleaning up the data. The world of data science tools is growing to support this demand. Notebook lab spaces.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Protecting government IT systems at the source - FCW.com. SAVE THE DATE: 2015 Annual CARE (Companies As Responsive Employers) Awards Breakfast, Nov. Local company wins $50M federal technology deal - Dayton Business Journal. Nextgov: Autonomic Resources' Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval - ExecutiveBiz (blog).

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

Emphasizing its compatibility with Google’s apps and services, an image of the phone on Huawei’s German website advertises that the phone allows you to (via Google Translate) “use top-apps as usual,” “use Android as usual,” and get “security updates as usual.”. Image: Huawei.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 25, 2022

While their web site is still up and advertises them as "the most reliable and simplest way to turn your home into a smart home," the company seems to have abruptly shut down their cloud service without warning or providing a way for customers to continue using their products, which depend on Insteon's privacy cloud. All companies die.

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Vox

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The company says it has mostly fixed the “technical problems” that prevented some Biden and Trump ads from running. While the company says it has mostly fixed the problem — and that the issue had nothing to do with partisanship — the situation highlights a growing distrust in Facebook’s ability to manage political content on its platform.

Advertising 75

Advertising Research Tools Open Source 75

CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 8, 2023

This is used across enterprises, from engineering, simulating prototypes, or arranging production lines, to marketing, using CAD files to render photorealistic images, and video for packaging or advertising. The company is also leaning on OpenUSD to extend its collaboration with existing partners and open up Omniverse to new ones.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 22, 2014

NYSE: IT) is the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company. The number of apps, products and advertisements thrown at us about technology can be daunting. My company, Inquidia Consulting, recently participated in Pentaho World 2014 in Orlando. Gartner, Inc. Should you be using cloud?

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2023

This year’s nominees for the Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards showcase a wide range of innovations from companies focused on diagnostics, therapeutics, digital health and precision medicine. A fifth company is the brainchild of a founder previously at Pacific Northwest Research Institute (PNRI).

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Vox

MAY 9, 2023

At a high-profile White House summit on AI last Thursday, CEOs from some of the most important technology companies in the world sat together in a rare joint meeting. It was a critical moment for the future of AI technology, but one company was notably left out: Meta. President Joe Biden even dropped by.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

Long tail’ use cases: As AI becomes ubiquitous in organizations, companies are running out of use cases where the required training data is plentiful and easily available. Using synthetic data to simulate those situations can help a company model those responses.

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Data Strategy Training Open Source 143

Vox

APRIL 17, 2020

Online, you can find people advertising drugs that are undergoing clinical trials but are not yet approved to treat Covid-19, like chloroquine, as well as more far-out fake treatments involving cow urine, colloidal silver, and even oregano. The accounts used to advertise these products might look less legitimate.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In late January, one man in Washington state was arrested after advertising fake Covid-19 vaccines online for as much as $1,000, and even injected people with an unknown substance, according to the Department of Justice , which is investigating these types of fraud cases. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 19, 2008

I have said for many years that the best way to understand Google is as an advertising aggregator (I would argue that even with its diversification over the last few years). It has for some years also sold advertising for delivery on radio, television, and newspapers. What's it all about? Well let's ask Ross Dawson.

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Advertising Google Internet Microsoft 60

Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Your app may be sending location data to a company that sells your data to another company that sells your data to the government. If you’re relying on Apple’s and Google’s app store rules to keep your location data safe from companies that sell it to the government, you might want to rethink that policy. What’s going on here?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 13, 2023

We spoke to nearly 50 founders that are participating in the 15th cohort of Techstars Seattle, which counts companies including Remitly, Outreach, Skilljar, Mass Reforestation, and others as alumni. Many of the 24 companies use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to boost productivity. ” Astros Founder Zsika Phillip.

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Vox

MARCH 31, 2023

The company, which is now valued at half of what it was when Musk bought it, is still bleeding advertisers that are put off by Musk’s antics. Already, under Musk’s leadership, Twitter has been promoting certain content according to the whims of the company’s new owner.

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Vox

MARCH 31, 2021

The company is on a mission to convince users that it’s listening. On Wednesday, within the span of a few hours, the company took several steps to encourage users to trust its ranking and recommendation systems. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Last week, Reps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 21, 2022

Or at least some companies say. A customer data platform (CDP) is a software system that pulls together data from a wide array of sources — such as websites, ecommerce and ad platforms, social media applications, retail software, and more — to create a centralized customer database, as well as detailed profiles of each customer.

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Galido

MARCH 12, 2020

Music and film companies are known to track piracy activity and file litigation against people accused of infringement of copyright. It is an open-source project with community assistance. The primary features of qBittorent include: Absence of advertisements. Additionally, torrent clients are open-source and ad-free.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The prime advertising slot is one that the Trump campaign secured months ago, before the Democratic Party had even settled on a nominee. Overall, the company claims that just the mobile version of YouTube reaches more people in the United States than any television network. The Masvidal ad was targeted to voters in Florida.

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Video Advertising Open Source Media 82

Vox

JULY 22, 2020

The racial justice movement is a moment of real significance for our company,” Vishal Shah, a vice president of product at Instagram, said in a statement. As an example, she suggested that the company will get behind tools that focus on supporting minority-owned businesses.

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