July 30, 2018
Senator Mark Warner Drops New Policy Proposals For Regulating Tech

The team at Facebook is not having a great week, as it seems all of its recent data scandal chickens have come home to roost. Last Wednesday, its market cap took a $120...

July 30, 2018
Five At Five: Facebook Hit By GDPR On Monthly Users

Welcome to the Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes Facebook getting hit by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),...

July 30, 2018
GDPR, Impactful And Showing Its Face(book)

A bit more than two months in, GDPR (shorthand for General Data Protection Regulation) is having an impact. Not surprising, as borne out by some (very) early numbers. There was...

July 30, 2018
Commerce Department Developing Data Privacy Policies

The White House is in the process of crafting consumer data privacy policies with the Commerce Department, talking with the likes of Facebook, Comcast and Alphabet, reported Reuters. Reuters, citing...

July 27, 2018
Facebook, Zuckerberg Face Class Action Suits Alleging Misleading Statements

Facebook and several key executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are facing federal class action lawsuits alleging the social network made false and misleading statements related to the decline of monthly...

July 27, 2018
Five At Five: Twitter Warns Investors On Monthly User Totals

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news of the day. Coverage includes a Twitter warning on monthly active users, a U.S. intelligence warning of...

July 27, 2018
Twitter Shares Slide After Platform Warns Of Lower Monthly Users

Twitter shares fell sharply during trading early Friday morning, after the social media company warned that the number of monthly active users (MAUs) would decline amid efforts to purge dormant...

July 27, 2018
Car Subscriptions Sizzle, Facebook Fizzles And Google Admirably Races On...

Amazon — with the whole the Alexa/Echo ecosystem — is not an easy competitor to race with. Looking at the marketplace for Voice AI assistants at 2018’s halfway mark ,there is...

July 27, 2018
Entrepreneurs Becoming A Driving Force Behind Data Sharing In The...

Europe and the U.K. solidified their reputations as having progressive views on data security and ownership with the PSD2 and GDPR regulations that came into effect earlier this year. Elsewhere in...