“Sometimes everything feels too polished,” Ms. Choy said. “If they can make their solicitation as human as possible, it would work better. It shouldn’t be about putting someone on a […]
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Back to news homeThe Working Woman’s Anthem ‘9 to 5’ Needed an Update. But This?
“Another word for hustle is ‘survival,’” said Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who has been pursuing a passion project about Ms. […]
Uber Eats, Chipotle Rise as Super Bowl Commercial Newcomers
The game, from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., filled to 30 percent of capacity, will showcase Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending champions, against Tom Brady, […]
Super Bowl Commercials: To Address or Avoid the Pandemic?
The game, from the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, filled to 30 percent capacity, will showcase Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs, the defending champions, against Tom Brady, the […]
What We Learned From Apple’s New Privacy Labels
We all know that apps collect our data. Yet one of the few ways to find out what an app does with our information involves reading a privacy policy.Let’s be […]
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
The Wall Street Journal had reported on aspects of the draft complaint earlier.The swell of recent antitrust cases filed against Google and Facebook has cast a spotlight on lucrative deals […]
The Antitrust Case Against Big Tech, Shaped by Tech Industry Exiles
“Who the heck consents to having a company track them across the internet,” she remembered thinking. “They could only do it because they had monopoly power to do something that […]
Bed Bath and Beyond’s Big, Ubiquitous Coupon: An Oral History
The F.B.I. found one in the junk drawer at the Santa Monica hide-out of the notorious mobster Whitey Bulger, which goes to show that gangsters are just like everybody else.There’s […]
After a Hard Year, Holiday Commercials Get Real
For television viewers, the holiday season means commercials filled with rosy-cheeked Santas, computer-generated polar bears and brand-new cars festooned with big red bows.This time around, at the close of a […]
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing.
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing.‘HUMANING’ Read More