Man Sells Personal Data on Kickstarter

Federico Zannier is looking to turn the tables on corporations looking to use consumer’s data for their own profit. Instead, he’s taking back control of his own data, and selling it. He data mined himself and recorded all of his online activity since February…

Inside The Upfronts: Less Hype, More Business at NewFronts

Last year, digital content players like Yahoo and YouTube established a series of upfront-like events (dubbed “newfronts”), the overarching message of which seemed to be “we’re in the programming business too.” Although original…

Square Launches Square Stand

Square announced today that, after processing $15 Billion in payments, it would debut Square Stand hardware to select U.S. retailers for $299 as a new way to process point of sales transaction right from the iPad. Square Stand is designed to help local businesses with brock and…

Inside The Upfronts: Broadcast Declines Less Dramatic Than the Press Would Have Us Believe

With the Upfront buying season about to start and the networks preparing to announce their line-ups next week, much has been said in the press about the decline of TV viewing…

The Trigger: 5/14/13