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Tweet Google is the world’s biggest online advertising company so anytime it makes a policy change, the ripple effects are felt far and wide. That will be the case if the company goes forward with a reported plan to move away from so-called third-party cookies as a way to identity consumers as they move across the internet. According to USA Today, Google plans to abandon third party cookies (mini programs…

Tweet GigaOM’s Mathew Ingram recently riffed on a superb piece by Stijn Debrouwere about the cargo culting of analytics in newsrooms. Stijn argued that publishers have aped tech companies by bringing data into their newsroom, but, having little idea of what to do with the data, are using it as more totem than tool, unable to distinguish what is measurable from what matters. In my experience at Chartbeat, I’ve seen…

Tweet One of the key advantages of Bitcoin as a payments mechanism is that it is free. This is one of the reasons that international remittance is often brought up as a potential key early adopter use case for Bitcoin. According to the World Bank’s research, the worldwide average cost of remittance is about 8.85 percent of the $ 514 billion sent each year. Taking that price to zero, or…

Tweet Judging from some of the headlines of the last couple of days, it looks like the future of television is just around the corner. First, news broke that Sony struck a preliminary agreement with Viacom to carry the company’s cable channels as part of an online pay TV offering. Then, Google CEO Larry Page reportedly met with folks from the NFL to discuss bringing the league’s Sunday Ticket to…

Tweet The 4G ready HTC One Mini has now become available at Vodafone UK for free with a contract starting at £34 per month. Despite its name, the “Mini” still has a very impressive 4.3″ 720p screen. Read more…      Neowin