Tag Archives: explainer
Making sense of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica nightmare
Over the weekend, a series of bombshell reports from The New York Times, The Observer and The Guardian told the story of Cambridge Analytica (CA) and how it harvested information from 50 million US Facebook profiles -- mostly without consent. The rep...
What’s the deal with Google and HTC?
Rumors out of Taiwan suggest that Google is preparing to purchase some, or all, of HTC's smartphone division. If true, it would mark a sad end for the company that built the first Android phone. What's not clear, however, is why Google wants to buy H...