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Prolific North | November 07, 2018

MSIF, previously known as Merseyside Special Investment Fund, is supported by the British Business Bank. It previously supported Open back in 2015 when it specialised in taxi-top digital display screens. The £80k was part of a £245k funding package to support research and development. Since then the company has moved into digital screen advertising, owning Liverpool’s largest digital portrait screen which launched in July. This was followed in November, with 2 further sites nea...

NK News | May 29, 2017

A North Korean company is advertising a domestic tablet computer under the copyrighted name of one of Apple Inc.’s flagship products – the “iPad” – the DPRK’s latest edition of Foreign Trade magazine shows. Made by the Myohyang IT Company, the device’s advertisement calls the tablet computer a “Ryonghung IPad”. “Ryonghung iPad is now popular among customers,”...

effinghamdailynews | January 13, 2020

The tech giant recently announced it would not ban false political advertising, or disallow ad targeting that could fuel discrimination or racism and generally create even bigger divides in the American electorate. Facebook is shirking it social responsibility as a company with great power to influence the next election and American democracy. Google has agreed to prohibit ads making false claims and so called “deep-fake” videos that mislead through doctoring images or using a real i...

borneobulletin | January 13, 2020

Two powerful Maryland politicians want that ad chasing you around the Internet to pay the state for the privilege of collecting your data. Maryland’s current and former Senate presidents have proposed a novel way to pioneer taxes on targetted digital advertising, a plan they estimate could deliver more than USD100 million per year to help pay for a sweeping education overhaul. In what appears to be first-in-the-nation legislation, social media companies such as Facebook and Google would fa...