Tumblr will ban adult content beginning Dec. 17. After child sex abuse content was found on it recently, Apple removed Tumblr from its App Store.
Author: Mike Snider, USA TODAY
Americans prefer to watch news, on TV and online, rather than read it, study finds
Most Americans still like to watch, rather than read the news, a Pew Research Center study says. While 44 percent prefer TV, 34 percent use the web.
Nexstar to buy Tribune Media for $4.1 billion, become largest local TV group in U.S.
Nexstar will pay $4.1B to acquire Tribune Media’s 42 television stations. The deal gives Nexstar the largest U.S. collection of local TV stations.
Marriott says as many as 500 million Starwood guests’ data may have been breached
Marriott says a data breach allowed access to a database of information on as many as 500 million customers who have stayed at a Starwood property.
Starwood data breach: Here’s some ways to protect yourself
Marriott’s Starwood breach: If you stayed at hotels including Sheraton, St. Regis, Westin, Element, Aloft how can you protect your identity?
Dunkin’ Donuts says some DD Perks members’ accounts may have been hit by data breach
Dunkin’ Donuts is warning a small percent of its loyalty program members that a data breach allowed access to some account usernames and passwords.
Payless sold its discount shoes for $600 a pair at mock luxury influencer event
Troubled footwear maker Payless staged a luxury influencer event at “Palessi” where attendees paid hundreds for its “rebranded” discount-priced shoes.
YouTube content strategy shift means more free, ad-supported video
Rather than drive viewers to its subscription services for content, including originals, YouTube plans to shift to an ad-supported video strategy.
More than 1,200 breweries answer Sierra Nevada’s call for Camp Fire relief beer
Sierra Nevada Brewing has a beer to support its community hit by the Camp Fire. About 1,000 other breweries will brew it, too, and donate the proceeds.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company nixes one L.A. tunnel, moves onto next project
Elon Musk’s Boring Co., which envisions underground fast mass transit, is dropping one of its L.A. projects.