Vimeo announced the raise of $150 million in new equity funding with Thrive Capital and GIC leading the funding round at a valuation of $2.75 billion. The announcement came in conjunction with the third quarter earnings of Vimeo’s parent company IAC. According to the earnings report, Vimeo grew revenue by […]
Twitter Launches ‘Pre-Bunks’ What Could go Wrong?
Today Twitter announced they will start pinning notices to the top of all U.S. users’ feeds sharing a warning that results in next week’s election may be delayed, and that they may encounter misinformation on mail-in voting. Twitter is calling the messages a “pre-bunk,”. A way of debunking misinformation before […]
YouTube’s Testing An Option to Reserve Ad Space Six Months in Advance
YouTube is reportedly testing letting advertisers reserve ad space up to six months in advance. This is likely most beneficial for organizations planning to tie into major events, like sporting championships, or elections. The new option surprisingly does not require a minimum ad buy. A report by the Wall Street Journal, says […]
YouTube Changes A Decision, Shocking Creators
YouTube did an oopsie… And more on DCC News. Pew pew! YouTube is reversing course on announced changes to its verification process, after they enraged thousands of creators and likely millions of fans. Within 24 hours of the company announcing changes that would unverify thousands of creators. The company backtracked […]
Meet David Salomon, Author and Photographer
Sometimes you hear a person’s story, and it doesn’t seem possible. As one comedian says of Arnold Schwarzenegger, he moved to America, became famous for lifting weights, starred in a few movies, married a Kennedy and got elected Governor of California. If Hollywood put that into a film, no one […]
Photographer Robert Frank Is Dead At 94, His Work Will Live On
Robert Frank, was one of the most influential photographers of the last century. His raw style held a personality, a character that is often seen in paintings, but not always photographs. A man who left is finger prints on not only photography, and art, but on the way the world […]
YouTube Pays $170M Over Accusations It Broke Children’s Privacy Law
Google will pay $170 million to the FTC and the New York Attorney General to settle allegations YouTube unlawfully collected data of children under 13. It’s YouTube kids, not a college dorm party after all. In the announcement of this settlement, the FTC call this the largest penalty of its kind […]
DCC Web Round Up – August 2019
Analyst Says Roku Will Climb To $4.5 Billion In Revenues By 2025 Ralph Schackart, an analyst at William Blair, says by 2025, the fast-growing TV player company, Roku will hit $4.5 billion in annual revenue. He says 90% of revenue will come from U.S. business. Full Story New supercomputer Will […]
Intel Debuts A Chip For Machine Learning Workloads
AI is everywhere, it seems, if you’ve used a search engine or social network in the last 8 years, you have had something experience with machine learning. Earlier this week Intel announced its first processor dedicated to AI (artificial intelligence) at an event in Haifa, Israel. Developed at Intel’s labs […]
Apple’s Next iPhones My Sport Triple-lens AI Cameras
Bloomberg reported today that Apple is preparing to introduce three new iPhones, three upgraded iPad models, a supersized MacBook Pro, and other goodies. Apple hasn’t provided a date for its autumn smartphone launch dog and pony show. But for seven consecutive years, the company has introduced new devices either on Labor Day week […]