News Corp has negotiated a three-year deal with Google where the tech company will make “significant payments” for its journalism across platforms. Top line As part of the deal, News Corp will contribute to Google’s News Showcase, which spotlights curated articles and offers short insights to readers. The partnership also includes the development of a…Read More
After a period in the doldrums during the mid-2010s, the number of mergers and acquisitions plus IPOs in ad tech suggests the good times are back. This time around, some of the sector’s more notable names are looking to fund the next generation of ad-tech and mar-tech companies as emerging channels. Looming over the proceedings,…Read More
This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. From reinvented shopping malls to pedestrianized suburban neighborhoods and a growing role for technology, ‘microcities’ are changing. A new study from ABI research has identified at least 13,000 microcities around the world. It is the first time the analyst firm has quantified these dense urban developments, which include the areas in and around large airports,…
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WarnerMedia’s newest tentpole is kids and family programming, and the company wants marketers to know it. That’s why it’s kicking off upfront season with its inaugural Kids and Family Upfront, unifying Cartoon Network and HBO Max for the first time in a joint effort from WarnerMedia newcomers Jean-Paul “JP” Colaco, head of ad sales, and…Read More
Discovery Inc. has poached another top Hulu exec as it continues to build out its fledgling Discovery+ streaming service. The company has hired Patrizio “Pato” Spagnoletto as global chief marketing officer, Discovery direct-to-consumer. Top line In the newly created position, Spagnoletto will oversee a unified global direct-to-consumer marketing organization as Discovery+ works to scale across…Read More
Scientists have used the world’s fastest supercomputer to develop an AI tool that predicts tsunami flooding in almost real-time. The system was created by researchers in Japan, one of the most seismically active areas in the world. Tsunamis have occurred so frequently in the archipelago’s history that the Japanese invented a word to describe the phenomenon: “tsu” meaning harbour, and “nami” meaning wave. In 2011, the country was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami that caused around 20,000 deaths and the worst nuclear distance since Chernobyl. The tragic event exposed many shortcomings in Japan’s tsunami prediction method. The new AI model was designed to…
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There’s a new face on subscription social platform OnlyFans: fashion designer Rebecca Minkoff and her eponymous accessible luxury brand. Minkoff debuted her OnlyFans account last Friday to coincide with New York Fashion Week (NYFW). Since then, she has streamed behind-the-scenes footage from her latest show. Until now, the four-year-old social platform has had a reputation…Read More
When new messages are shared in a Discord server’s channels, those channels will be highlighted so that members can quickly see which channels have new messages. If there are new messages in channels that you’re not interested in reading, you can mark all channels as read to stop the channels from being highlighted. Our guide…Read More
Swiss CPG giant Nestl? is selling its North American water brands along with beverage delivery service ReadyRefresh to investment firms One Rock Capital Partners and Metropoulos & Co. for $4.3 billion. Top line In addition to ReadyRefresh, the sale encompasses eight water brands, including Poland Spring, Deer Park, Ozarka and Arrowhead, which generated sales of…Read More
When we talk about SEO, it almost goes without saying that we’re talking about Google. Given this, you may have looked at the headline of this article and thought something along the lines of: “SEO for Bing? Should I also do SEO for AltaVista and Lycos while I’m at it?” There is a compelling case…Read More
