Google Reports Q2 Revenue of Almost $62 Billion
Google just enjoyed its biggest quarter ever, with the tech giant reporting on Tuesday it brought in $61.9 billion during Q2 — up 62% from the same time last year,…
Toyota Stops Donations to Some Lawmakers Following Pressure from The Lincoln Project
Toyota is halting donations to lawmakers who voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win in January, reports MarketingDaily. According to the…
Facebook’s Oversight Board Upholds the Social Network’s Decision to Ban Former President Trump
Facebook’s Oversight Board has upheld the social network’s decision to ban former president Donald Trump, but also faulted the social network for…
YouTube Dominates Social Media Reach Finds New Pew Study
Chart Shows Percent of U.S Adults Who Say They Use Social Media Platforms In a Pew study of Americans’ social media platform usage,…
Facebook Allegedly Gave Advertisers “Misleading” Metrics for Years on How Many People Their Ads Could Reach
Facebook allegedly gave its advertisers “inflated and misleading” metrics on how many people their ads could reach for years, according to newly revealed court…
Facebook to Enable Advertisers to Block Ads Near Inappropriate Newsfeed Topics
Facebook is working on an initiative that will enable advertisers and agencies to exclude their ads from running next to or near topics in…
Adweek Acquires Social Media Week
Adweek acquired Social Media Week (SMW) and its flagship properties, including Social Media Week Conferences, SMW News & Insights and its recently launched streaming…
Google, Facebook Agreed to Team Up Against Possible Antitrust Action, Draft Lawsuit Says, Reports WSJ
Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” if they ever faced an investigation into their pact to…
Facebook “Declares War” on Apple, States MarketWatch
Facebook has launched a PR assault against Apple, proclaiming that the iPhone maker’s upcoming changes to its mobile operating system will hurt small…
Twitter Sinks Periscope
Twitter plans to shut down Periscope, the live video streaming app it acquired in 2015, due to declining usage and high costs, reports Deadline.…
Interning with Hands-On Experience: FilmFestDC
By Mac Bassett and Kaylea Tolchin Building up to the festival and throughout its duration, the REQ intern team was able to manage this…
FTC Orders Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Services to Provide Data About How They Collect, Use and Present Information
The Federal Trade Commission is ordering nine social media and video streaming companies to provide data on how they collect, use, and present personal…
FTC Calls Facebook an Illegal Monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission and 48 states are calling Facebook an illegal monopoly, claiming the company engaged in anti-competitive activity in its acquisition…
RepItSocial to Launch Social Media Network to be “Central Hub for All Things BIPOC”
RepItSocial, a tech company in Howard County, MD, is launching an app, with the same name, that, states a release, “is a dynamic, new…
Twitter Launches ‘Fleets’, Tweets that Disappear After 24 Hours
Twitter launched a new feature worldwide called ‘fleets’: tweets that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature on Snapchat and Instagram. “Some…
