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Category: Trends

  • The shape of movies to come

    So The Interview got its public showing on Christmas Day in the United States in spite of hacks on Sony Pictures’ computer systems, angry denials by the North Koreans that they were behind the hacks, and intervention by the US…

  • The Hoover metaphor

    A report last week in The Guardian about the UK digital ad market includes this text: Google and Facebook will hoover up the market between them, it says. “Hoover up?” This is not new by any means, but it is…

  • Marking eight years of Twitter

    I remember when I first started hearing about Twitter, in the summer of 2006 less than six months after the service started earlier that year. As the year progressed, the name kept popping up in blog posts and comments –…

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  • Mobile can grow, but publishers are losing out on revenue

    A guest post by Simon Birkenhead, CEO of Axonix, an advertising technology company backed by Telefonica and Blackstone. Facebook recently announced its Q3 results and, for many in the industry, the most headline-grabbing statistic was that mobile ads now make…

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  • The surveillance structure that underpins us all

    Here’s another paragraph to add to the debate about privacy, surveillance, spying and the whole gamut of who does what, how and why with digital information that you think is yours and private but in reality is in the spies’…

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