Early investor Roger McNamee explains his concerns about the platform’s trajectory. By now we all know the story of Mark Zuckerberg’s rise from his Harvard dorm room to becoming a 23-year-old billionaire. But how the past couple of years have played out, particularly the handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has given Roger McNamee, an […]

The past few years have seen a merging of the personal and professional in the Facebook founder’s annual goals, but the execution has a left a little to be desired amid increased company scrutiny. Every January, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posts his annual resolution for the year. Based on this year’s promise, cracks […]

Sure, Facebook’s image isn’t great right now, but it’s still one of the biggest marketing tools you have at your disposal. Facebook has seen its fair share of ups and downs in the past year. From overestimating video view time to advertisers, to stirring up deep controversy over privacy breaches, the social media giant has fallen under […]

Washington DC’s top prosecutor is suing Facebook in the first significant US move to punish the firm for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, said the Washington Post. It accused Facebook of allowing the wholesale scraping of personal data on tens of millions of users. The […]

With cannabis becoming legalized across states, and now country borders, power players in the ad industry are hindering growth. Imagine being a publicly-traded or successfully raising millions of capital to begin a startup in the U.S., without hardly any way to market yourselves efficiently. Crazy, right? But this is exactly where we are within the […]

Why Ads Are Toxic To Early Stage Startups If you just started a company for the first time and you’re using ads to get your first paying customers, you’re doing it wrong. Unless you’re a repeat successful founder, you’ll be out of business in 2 years. I’m sure of it. I often times post about my […]

According to a new survey, Instagram has overtaken Snapchat as the most popular social media platform among American teenagers. Investment banking firm Piper Jaffray released the latest version of it’s bi-annual “Taking Stock With Teens” report which showed 85% of the 8,600 participants said that they use Instagram at least once a month. In comparison, 84% of […]

By Laura Desmond If the U.S. continues to reward only the rich or remarkable, what will happen to future generations? “I’m having a procedure called a D&C on Wednesday and won’t be home that night. Are you fine to stay alone?” I was in the passenger seat of my mom’s lime-green Opel Manta on the […]

The biggest challenges in the design of speech and audio interfaces frequently repeated urban story is that someone talks about an arbitrary topic, say “cars” and minutes later he sees a car-advertisement on Facebook. Or that you talk about “Greg” and seconds later you see a “Add friend” notification for someone named Greg. This highlights a […]

Lost faith in Facebook and Instagram after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here’s a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good. You may have decided enough is enough: It’s time to delete Facebook. There have been months — or is it years now? — of bad […]