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.
In this week's episode of "Perspectivies on Agility" sponsored by AT&T Travis Farral, Director of Security Strategy at Anomali, joins to discuss what company's can do before, during and after a cybersecurity hack.
Over the course of just 24 hours, global cryptocurrencies lost $60 billion in value. Plus, Playboy is the lastest company to get in on the crypto action.
Danny Aranda, managing director at Ripple, told Cheddar that Google's ad ban and other regulations could actually help weed out the frauds and educate the general public on cryptocurrencies.
Google is banning all ads related to cryptocurrency. Students across the country are walking out of class today to remember victims of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Kai Ryssdal, host and senior editor of Marketplace, stops by to talk about the upcoming 10 year anniversary of the financial crisis. And we're joined by the co-owner of McClure's, a company that specializes in making pickles.
DRL CEO Nicholas Horbaczewski says there's a league of professional drone pilots, and as the sport gains momentum more brands want in. The luxury carmaker is just one of them.
The fantasy sports platform is already building out a product that would allow sports betting, pending a decision from the Supreme Court, says DraftKings CEO Jason Robins.
Rex Tillerson is out as Secretary of State and CIA director Mike Pompeo is in. President Trump issued an executive order blocking Broadcom's hostile takeover bid for rival chipmaker Qualcomm. Olympic gold medalist and author Scott Hamilton joins us to talk about his figure skating career and his new book. Plus, Kristen Scholer sits down with Brooklyn Decker and Whitney Casey at SXSW to talk about their start-up Finery.
Payments processing system WePay wants to help TouchBistro, a restaurant point of service platform, shake up an industry where innovation has been limited, says Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.
The company's inventory is constantly moving and it needs data and technology to keep its operations seamless. In fact, the company "doesn't exist without technology," says Josh Builder, CTO at RTR.
Dropbox set terms for its IPO which is expected to debut sometime next week on the Nasdaq. Elon Musk surprised fans by showing up at a South by Southwest panel for HBO's "Westworld" to talk about space travel. Michael Harriot from The Root joins us to talk about the high stakes in the Pennsylvania special election. And we catch up with Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, at South by Southwest to talk about the future of cryptocurrency.
