Social networks Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR) will emerge as winners in 2016, as digital display ad spending overtakes search ad spending in the U.S. for the first time, according to reports out Monday from research group eMarketer and investment bank Cowen & Co. Within the display ad spending umbrella, advertisers will invest the most on “banners and other,” a category that includes native ads and ads on popular social sites, including
Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook and executives from Facebook (FB), Yahoo (YHOO), Twitter (TWTR) and Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google are among those that had planned to meet with top U.S. government officials Friday to discuss ways the companies can help curb terror groups’ online efforts. The meeting was set to take place in San Jose, Calif., with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, FBI Director James Comey and James
What’s another name for 10,000 characters? An upsized Twitter (TWTR) tweet, according to media reports. Twitter is looking to allow tweets longer than the traditional 140-character limit — much longer, in fact, according to a report in Re/Code on Tuesday. Twitter could change the character limit before launching the final product — code-named “Beyond 140” — likely toward the end of Q1, according to the report. Twitter is currently testing a