- FTC Urged To Investigate Prodigy Math Game Over Alleged 'Bait-And-Switch' Tactics
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2021
Prodigy Education dupes people by representing that its popular online math game is free, but bombarding young users with ads for a paid version that costs up to $107 ...
- Jack Myers Launches Ed-Tech Search Engine To Support Underserved B2B Media Market
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 17, 2020
The industry-specific B2B search engine, MeetingPrep.com from MediaVillage, addresses the media industry's failure to invest in education and diversity. ...
- New Mexico Wants Appeals Court To Revive Privacy Claims Against Google
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2020
New Mexico's top law enforcement official has appealed a trial judge's dismissal of a lawsuit claiming the company violated students' privacy rights with its educational apps. ...
- Google Defeats New Mexico AG's Lawsuit Over Student's Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
A federal judge has thrown out a privacy lawsuit brought by the New Mexico Attorney General over children's educational apps. ...
- Back-To-School Flip-Flop: Mental Health Effects Of Pandemic Surface In Search Queries
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Search terms related to the return to school have climbed, with mental health-related searches 4.3 times higher and social and peer interaction-related searches 2.7 times higher. Other terms related ...
- The One Club Expands ONE School To West Coast
MAD, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, August 5, 2020
The group is keeping the core structure and also providing guidance on navigating the industry as a Black creative. ...
- Children's Ad Watchdog Wants FTC To Question Ed-Tech Companies About Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, May 11, 2020
The Children's Advertising Review Unit says the FTC should question ed-tech companies about privacy, but expresses concern that issuing formal subpoenas could delay new COPPA regulations. ...
- FTC Urged To Probe Tech Companies' Use Of Children's Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, May 8, 2020
Many educational technology services, including those involved in distance learning, have inconsistent privacy and security standards, lawmakers tell the FTC. ...
- Semcasting Develops Free Digital Activity Score To Identify Best Media For Engaging Consumers
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, April 13, 2020
Designed to provide measurement around COVID-19, Semcasting has developed a Digital Activity Score to rank online consumers with degrees of engagement to help advertisers get the most from their investmen ...
- Watchdogs Seek New Privacy Protections For Students
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 16, 2020
The current, pandemic-fueled shift from physical classrooms to distance learning poses a threat to students privacy rights, a coalition of watchdogs said Thursday. ...
- Google Sued For Allegedly Collecting Students' Biometric Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, April 3, 2020
A class-action complaint has been brought against Google for allegedly violating privacy laws by collecting voiceprints, faceprints, and other personal information from children. ...
- Watchdogs Want FTC To Demand Detailed Info About Children's Data
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 26, 2020
"No federal entity has conducted a detailed and compulsory study of industry practice regarding contemporary children's data collection practices across the digital landscape or ed tech," the Center for Digit ...
- Google Sued By New Mexico AG Over Students' Privacy
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Sunday, February 23, 2020
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is suing Google for allegedly "spying" on children who use the company's educational apps. ...
- 'NYT,' Verizon Provide Free Digital Access To Title I Schools
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Thursday, September 26, 2019
The partnership will give access to over 7 million Title I high-school students and teachers nationwide in middle schools within the Verizonl earning program. Schools will also get access ...
- Tinuiti, 22squared Promote Intern Projects With Specific Goals
MAD, Larissa Faw - Thursday, July 25, 2019
Tinuiti's program focuses on high school, rather than college students. 22squared's interns challenged the unconscious gender bias in A1. ...
- IAB Rolls Out Training Programs As Low Unemployment Rates Persist
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 9, 2019
The low unemployment rate contributes to the challenge of finding and retaining top salespeople and has become a competitive advantage for many companies in the ad industry. ...
- New Publicis Groupe Employee Learning Program Tied To Marcel
MAD, Larissa Faw - Thursday, January 31, 2019
The program is being rolled out globally and will be tied to AI-driven intranet Marcel. ...
- Apple Launches 'Everyone Can Create' Curriculum
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Apple is officially launching its new “Everyone Can Create” curriculum on Apple Books this week. “The curriculum joins Apple’s ‘Everyone Can Code’ initiative by offering teachers a way to integra ...
- Teach Your Media Children Well
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, March 21, 2018
A state bill in California wants to push public schools to teach students how to identify fake news -- as well as understanding growing digital citizenship and media literacy. ...
- Google Asks Judge To Reject Prager University's 'Censorship' Claims
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, February 13, 2018
"It is YouTube, not PragerU, whose First Amendment rights are threatened here," Google argues in papers filed Friday with U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose. ...
- OLE Appoints The Republik As Its First AOR
Accounts on the Move, Larissa Faw - Friday, December 8, 2017
The academic open software partnership OLE(Open Library Environment) is appointing The Republik as its first-ever AOR to work on an entire brand refresh. Previous work was handled by local agenci ...
- Advertising Not An Option To Alert Amazon Sellers Of Possible Overdue Taxes
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 8, 2017
The taxman cometh for Amazon sellers, many of whom advertise across the marketplace, in a variety of states. One company leading a grassroots movement on social sites like Facebook clai ...
- Act-On Software Relaunches Marketing Education Program University
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Marketing automation platform Act-On Software announced the launch of Act-On University on Tuesday, the second iteration of the company's educational program. ...
- Demandbase Launches ABM Certification Program
Email Marketing Daily, Jess Nelson - Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Demandbase launched an online training program on Tuesday to help B2B marketers learn the fundamentals of account-based marketing (ABM). ...
- Donors Sponsor Over 200,000 Digital Student Subscriptions To 'NYT'
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Tuesday, February 21, 2017
The Times' sponsor-a-subscription program launched February 9, giving students in underfunded U.S. public schools and districts free digital access to the Times' content. The subscription also gives teachers and studen ...
- Mattel Creates IoT System To Help Parents Teach Children
AI & IoT Daily, Chase Martin - Sunday, January 8, 2017
Mattel aims to bring a fully connected and AI-driven ecosystem to parenting with new products launched at CES. The Aristotle ecosystem centers around a connected, AI-driven WiFi and Bluetooth speake ...
- Duolingo Goes Social With Language Clubs For Mobile App
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, December 29, 2016
Duolingo is getting social. The language learning app just debuted Language Clubs, which encourage users to share their learning achievements with friends. ...