While some advertisers were pulling back from Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. last month, Tumblr began a new ad campaign to encourage users to return to its once-popular social-media platform.“Welcome back :)” one ad on Twitter read, linking to…
Celebrity deepfakes are coming to advertising.Among the recent entries: Last year, Russian telecommunications company MegaFon released a commercial in which a simulacrum of Hollywood legend
Bruce Willis
helps…
Corporations in energy, finance and telecommunications got together last week to square off on their cyber-defense skills, a match that participants claimed was the first tri-industry exercise organized entirely by the private sector.Power…
The U.K. government has signaled its intention to impose strict new security requirements on telecommunications operators, including stiff penalties for noncompliance.Britain’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport last week…
OTTAWA—Canada’s
Rogers Communications Inc.
said it had restored internet and wireless services and that its networks and systems are close to fully operational, following a roughly…
WASHINGTON—U.S. phone companies that connect robocalls from overseas would have to block calls when ordered to do so under new rules adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission, in the latest government effort to end a deluge…
Marriott
International Inc. is introducing a media network this month with Yahoo Inc. that will help advertisers target consumers, in part by using the hotel chain’s data on its guests, to bring them ads on…
TOKYO—
SoftBank Group Corp.
9984 11.40%
, one of the world’s most aggressive high-tech investors, said Thursday it lost more money in its last fiscal year than it ever has—$13.2…
“The world is in a chaotic situation,” said Chief Executive
Masayoshi Son,
citing Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “In this chaotic world, the approach we at SoftBank should take is defense.” The…