NewsIn a CES opening day briefing, the Consumer Technology Association's top researchers made the case that the COVID-19 pandemic helped to accelerate many consumer media technologies, including the "connected health" … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
NewsThe break will give Nielsen time to "transform" management of local TV market panels from "in-person" efforts to "remote" operations. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
NewsOn the eve of this week's CES conference, NPD Group released estimates indicating that the U.S. consumer technology industry expanded 17% during 2020, despite -- or maybe even because of … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
CommentaryA Fox hospital drama returning this week adopts a strategy for dealing with COVID that was first pioneered by a Fox comedy earlier this month. Read the full story by Adam Buckman
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This is the time to increase spending to capture greater market share, build customer loyalty, and aggressively supplant your competition. Read the full story by Steven Seghers
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Twitter's permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump is an important and necessary action. Beyond limiting real damage to people and society, it will help to improve the platform for brands. Read the full story by Brian Wieser
NewsIn a lawsuit filed Monday, Parler says Amazon is violating antitrust laws by "severely restraining commerce in the microblogging services market." Read the full story by Wendy Davis
NewsAfter years of public outcry and outrageous and incendiary tweets, Twitter has finally suspended @realDonaldTrump's account -- permanently. "After close review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
NewsUnexpected backing came from Germany and France after President Trump was banned from Twitter and Facebook. German Chancellor Angela Merkel objected to the decision to completely ban the U.S. president … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
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Hawley is glomming onto the remains of the Trump Administration, hoping to capture his base -- by any means necessary. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
NewsThe controversial right-wing platform went offline shortly after midnight Pacific time Sunday, the time Amazon had announced it would be removed from its cloud hosting service. Meanwhile, Twitter's HQ is … Read the full story by Karlene Lukovitz
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With the threat of Amazon Web Services pulling the plug Sunday on Parler, the conservative site's CEO said his media company does not "condone or accept violence on our platform … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
CommentaryAdvertisers use data models to determine the "perfect" message to target consumers with ads at specific moments. Why can't data models built on sentiment and interests predict violence? Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
NewsIn what might be described as the Great Exodus, social media user interactions with politically charged content have fallen precipitously on mainstream social media platforms like Facebook since it temporarily … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
