The indictment of 13 Russians for interfering with the Presidential election has intensified the pressure put on Facebook, which uncovered about three-thousand Russian-linked ads on its platforms before and after November 2016. Cheddar Senior Reporter, Alex Heath, breaks down the the latest developments.
Facebook's Vice President for ads, Rob Goldman, tweeted about Russia's disinformation effort. President Trump then cited him. Facebook did not intend for Goldman’s tweets to be quoted by Trump. They thought the tweets would only be seen by a contextually-aware audience of techies and media types who follow Goldman.
Heath believes that the tweeting from Goldman and other execs is part of a carefully orchestrated PR campaign by Facebook to make itself appear more transparent and relate-able through engaged spokespeople on Twitter.
The Cheddar Sports crew caught up with Tucker Roberts, President of the Philadelphia Fusion, and Joe Marsh, the team's CFO, to discuss the rapid growth of esports and how it's reaching the "unreachable" demographic.
Baker Machado met with Tucker Roberts, President of Philadelphia Fusion and Joe Marsh, CFO of Philadelphia Fusion to talk the team's success, their chances this weekend and the league overall.
The Cheddar Sports crew caught up with Goldenboy ahead of the Overwatch Grand Finals for his thoughts on who he thinks will score a win and which players to watch.
The Cheddar Sports crew caught up with the team members of the Philadelphia Fusion, who upset the top-seeded New York Excelsior in the first round of the Overwatch championship. Getting to this weekend's Grand Finals, the team said, is a dream come true.
Shares of the e-commerce giant soared hours after the company trounced estimates for earnings. Its fast-growing cloud business saw revenues rise nearly 50 percent to $6.1 billion. Forrester Research's Sucharita Kodali told Cheddar the company may beat Apple to the vaunted $1 trillion market cap mark.
Shares of Tenable opened on the Nasdaq at $33 a share, well above the IPO price of $23. CEO Amit Yoran told Cheddar that cyberhacking is an "existential threat to so many organizations," and he wants to protect governments, the public sector, retailers, and cloud-computing companies from these dangers.
Aneesh Chaganty is the writer-director of "Searching," an experimental film shot entirely from the point of view of smartphones and computer screens. A former video maker at Google, Chaganty explains to Cheddar that his experience at the company prepared him for his film's technical complications.
Anthony Pompliano, partner at investment firm Morgan Creek Digital Assets, explains why he thinks prices of the cryptocurrency could increase more than sixfold by the end of the year.
Shares of Facebook plunged Thursday after its latest earnings report. But Jefferies analyst Brent Thill tells Cheddar the company won't suffer in the long term, particularly because Europe's new data rules are "great hygiene" to work out the kinks.
President Trump accused Twitter of so-called "shadow banning" high-profile Republicans from the platform. Twitter has said that, while some users appear to not be showing up in auto-fill search results, down-ranking the results has been based solely on user behavior, not on their political leaning.
