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Welcome to being tracked!

CTOvision

By Kimberly Kelly Just for fun I decided to run an experiment and see how long it would take for product and service advertisements to start popping up in my internet world. By the next morning all of the Hadoop jobs must have finished running, because I woke with an inbox filled with advertisements.

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Amazon bets big on sports streaming in bid to boost Prime memberships, advertising revenue

GeekWire

The company is betting that the strategy will pay off in the form of additional Prime membership sign-ups ($139/year) and new revenue to fuel its growing advertising business. Amazon has helped bring 50 new advertisers to NFL programming, Neiman said. Live sports remains one of the most-watched telecasts.

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White House brands BGP routing a ‘national security concern’ as it unveils reform roadmap

Network World

BGP is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. BGP’s original design properties do not adequately address the threat to and resilience requirements of today’s internet ecosystem,” notes the roadmap fact sheet.

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Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web. Facebook has other ideas.

Vox

Sometime next month, iPhone users will start seeing a new question when they use many of the apps on their devices: Do they want the app to follow them around the internet, tracking their behavior? Apple is trying to single-handedly change the way internet advertising works. And it affects you, the person reading this story.

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Why the Internet of Things is also Industry 4.0

The Investing Edge

This post is the second installment of a three-part series on the Internet of Things. Robert Bosch is a German-based global leader in brake and automotive technology that has established a 500-person subsidiary, Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions, to develop sensors and actuators for the Internet of Things (“IoT”).

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TikTok is full of shady secret advertisements

Vox

All of them should have, according to truth in advertising rules that are supposed to be enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general. Instagram has been dealing with it for years, giving brands plenty of time to figure out influencer advertising strategies before TikTok came along. Many didn’t.

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ABC Interview: Google as an advertising aggregator

Trends in the Living Networks

I have said for many years that the best way to understand Google is as an advertising aggregator (I would argue that even with its diversification over the last few years). It has for some years also sold advertising for delivery on radio, television, and newspapers. at the time. What's it all about?