CBS All Access Expands With The Twilight Zone Revival and a New Version of Stephen King’s The Stand

The next year will see the debut of several new streaming services from big media companies like Disney, AT&T and NBCUniversal. And while they all have Netflix in their sights, those OTT services will also have to compete with offerings like CBS All Access, which has had a three-year head start in building up a…

Skittles – The Musical – Starring Michael C. Hall (2019) 90 (USA)

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Skittles are sitting out this game, instead “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall is their big name in the Skittles musical that will be performed in New York on Super Bowl Sunday.

Governo da França promove campanha contra homofobia e transfobia em escolas e universidades do país

O Governo da França, através do Ministério da Educação, lançou uma campanha contra homofobia e transfobia nas escolas de ensino médio e universidades do país. Com o slogan “Todos Iguais, Todos Aliados”, a campanha tem como ações a distribuição de folhetos com a palavra “Basta!” e exemplos de discriminação que devem ser abolidos. Também serão …

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Police Investigating Jussie Smollett Attack Seek 2 People Seen on Video

Detectives pored over hundreds of hours of surveillance footage after the “Empire” star said he was attacked on a Chicago street by two men yelling racist and homophobic slurs.

20 Stimulating Facial Massage Tools – From Luxurious Face-Sculpting Tools to Quartz Face Rollers (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) From gua sha stone scrapers to rose quartz rollers and other high-tech handheld tools, skin-perfecting facial massage tools are becoming ingrained in consumers’ beauty and self-care rituals…

CBS All Access Expands With The Twilight Zone Revival and a New Version of Stephen King’s The Stand

The next year will see the debut of several new streaming services from big media companies like Disney, AT&T and NBCUniversal. And while they all have Netflix in their sights, those OTT services will also have to compete with offerings like CBS All Access, which has had a three-year head start in building up a…

Facebook's blowout fourth quarter was all about Stories ads


Facebook Stories, which is starting to take hold beyond Instagram, looks increasingly like a bright spot for the network, a development that became even more apparent after the company released strong fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday.

The mobile videos that disappear in 24 hours, Storieswhich Facebook copied from Snapchat two years agohas been increasingly central to Facebook’s strategy. It was developed to unify the social network’s family of appsFacebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagramwith the goal of creating stronger ties between all the properties. For instance, Stories present the first Facebook ad format that’s the same across all the apps, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called Stories “the future of sharing.”

Zuckerberg said on Wednesday, in a call with Wall Street analysts following the release of earnings, that Stories are starting to pick up on the main Facebook app, and not just on Instagram, where they were popular out the gate when they launched two years ago.

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Facebook Gains More Users as Revenue and Profits Climb

Despite a painful year of scandals, the social network reported Wednesday that it continued to grow in the fourth quarter.

AT&T customers exit in droves as teleco looks to upend TV


AT&T, in the middle of a high-stakes effort to turn itself into a media and entertainment juggernaut, finds itself playing catch-up in its bread-and-butter businesses of wireless and pay-TV services.

Two key measures, U.S. wireless and pay-TV subscribers, came in well below predictions in the fourth quarter.

AT&T added a net 13,000 U.S. monthly wireless subscribers in the period, way under projections of about 252,000. A loss of 410,000 users of non-phone devices like smartwatches and tablets drove the disappointment.

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How NBCUniversal Is Unifying Its Ad Delivery

NBCUniversal has completed the first stage of a tech partnership with Freewheel to unify its ad delivery system, taking it one step closer to selling ad inventory to buyers across screens in a unified way. The partnership between the two companies, both owned by Comcast, is part of NBCUniversal’s “one order, one report” vision, whereby…

Employees Are Using Messaging Apps, Whether HR Knows or Not

Employees are using messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype for work-related communications on a regular basis, often without the knowledge or approval of the human resources departments at their companies, according to a new study from private enterprise social network Speakap. Speakap surveyed over 1,000 non-desk employees–which it defined as people who…

Nate Cardozo Is Going From Scrutinizing WhatsApp to Working for It

Electronic Frontier Foundation senior information security counsel Nate Cardozo likely became quite familiar with WhatsApp and its parent company, Facebook, during his six-and-a-half years of working on cybersecurity policy for the EFF. And now, Cardozo is about to become even more familiar with WhatsApp and Facebook. He announced in a Facebook post that starting Feb….

Twitter and the University of California-Berkeley Are Joining Forces to Study Machine Learning

Twitter is teaming up with researchers at the University of California-Berkeley to establish a new research initiative focused on studying and improving the performance of machine learning in social networks. Profs. Moritz Hardt and Ben Recht will lead the initiative. Teams from UC Berkeley and Twitter will look to combine the social network’s data and…

A&W Takes Up a Worthy Cause: Adding the Ampersand (Back) Into the Alphabet

When a brand changes its logo, customers notice. Look no further than when IHOP briefly became IHOb, and the world exploded. Now, to celebrate its 100th birthday, A&W Restaurants has unveiled a new logo, and (gasp) there’s no ampersand! The symbol has not held up well in a digital age; good luck finding one in…

M&M's – Do I have to break you guys apart? / Christina Appelgate (2019) :30 (USA)

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Christina Appelgate plays the tired mom driving the kids who are always fighting in the back seat.

Olay – Killer Skin / Sarah Michelle Gellar (2019) :30 (USA)

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What would you sacrifice for killer skin? Sarah Michelle Gellar and Olay make a Super Bowl Debut.

Nos EUA, Domino’s cria programa de recompensas para quem come pizza (mesmo que não seja da marca)

A Domino’s ama que as pessoas amem pizza e está disposta a recompensá-las por isso… mesmo quando a pizza em questão não é a feita pela empresa. Numa jogada bastante ousada, a marca de fast food criou nos Estados Unidos um programa de recompensas cujos pontos são ganhos cada vez que a pessoa registra que …

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Shutterstock recria a campanha do Fyre Festival usando apenas imagens do seu acervo

O documentário “Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened”, lançado há poucos dias pela Netflix, tem causado barulho entre produtores, celebridades e frequentadores de festivais. O filme mostra os bastidores do festival que prometeu ser um evento de luxo nas Bahamas, mas que de fato nunca aconteceu, deixando para trás um rastro de flop e …

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