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More deceptive cookie banners targeted in latest noyb EU action
European privacy advocacy group noyb has fired off a second batch of cookie consent complaints (270 in total) targeting websites in the region that it says are failing to properly…
Cookie consent still a compliance trash fire in latest watchdog peek
The latest confirmation of the online tracking industry’s continued flouting of EU privacy laws which — at least on paper — are supposed to protect citizens from consent-less digital surveillance…
Adtech giant Criteo is being investigated by France’s data watchdog
Adtech giant Criteo is under investigation by the French data protection watchdog, the CNIL, following a complaint filed by privacy rights campaign group Privacy International. “I can confirm that the…
Cookie consent tools are being used to undermine EU privacy rules, study suggests
Most cookie consent pop-ups served to internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission to track people’s web activity — are likely to be flouting regional privacy laws,…
A year on from Europe’s flagship update to the pan-EU data protection framework the Commission has warned that too many privacy policies are still too hard to read and has…
Adtech veteran Quantcast is latest tech giant to face GDPR privacy probe
Another tech giant is under investigation in Europe for potential privacy breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), TechCrunch has learnt. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is…
Quantcast Launches Audience Grid To Connect Online And Offline Ad Targeting
Online advertisers and publishers might get a lot smarter about their audiences’ offline habits, thanks to a new product from Quantcast called Audience Grid. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman described this…
Online measurement and advertising company Quantcast has hired a new chief financial officer — Stephen Collins, former CEO at Bazaarvoice. Collins has also served as CFO at Bazaarvoice and DoubleClick,…
Quantcast is announcing two big hires today — a new chief financial officer, Peter Kuipers, and its first senior vice president of engineering, Peter Sirota. Quantcast is best known as…
Quantcast Acquires Ad Personalization And Retargeting Company Struq
Quantcast is announcing that it has acquired Struq, a London-based company that offers cross-device retargeting and personalization for advertisers. Quantcast may be best known for its data about Internet traffic,…
Tesla Drivers Are Using Their In-Dash Browser To Keep Up With The News, Quantcast Says
What are Tesla owners actually doing with their in-car web browsers? That’s the question that ad measurement and targeting company Quantcast tried to answer with some just-released data. Apparently, the…
Quantcast Adds Mobile App Data, Promises A Truly Cross-Platform View In Its Analytics Service
Advertising and measurement company Quantcast is launching a new service today called Measure for Mobile Apps. As the name implies, it collects data on the usage of a publisher’s iOS…
San Francisco To Dublin, Ad Specialist Quantcast Opens EMEA Ops Center, Plans 100 Non-Engineering Jobs
Digital advertising specialist Quantcast has become the latest U.S. tech company to put down roots in Dublin. The San Francisco-headquartered company has announced the opening of a new EMEA Operations…
Quantcast Acquires Startup MakeGood To Improve Ad Data Aggregation
Online measurement and ad targeting company Quantcast has acquired MakeGood (also known as MakeGood Software), a Seattle-based ad tech startup founded in 2009. Quantcast CEO Konrad Feldman said the company…
Quantcast Open Sources Hadoop Distributed File System Alternative
Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System…
Gawker's Gulp Moment: Big Redesign Is Driving People Away
About ten days ago, gossip blog Gawker and its sister sites Gizmodo, Lifehacker and others switched over to a drastic redesign which was met with plenty of jeers. People always…
Android's Mobile Web Consumption Share In The US Is Surging, iOS Share Dropping
Media measurement and Web analytics company Quantcast has some interesting numbers on mobile browsing in the United States, and it’s preparing to release some of those statistics, across vendors. Earlier…
Quantcast appoints Yahoo! MD to ramp up UK expansion
The web measurement firm Quantcast has appointed ex-Yahoo! MD Philip Macauley to lead the company’s operations and expansion into the UK market. Macauley spent ten years at Yahoo!, where he…
Quantcast Pulls In Yahoo! Exec To Ramp Up UK Operation
The web measurement firm Quantcast has appointed ex-Yahoo! MD Philip Macauley to lead the company’s operations and expansion into the UK market. Macauley spent ten years at Yahoo!, where he…
Google VP Julio Pekarovic Departs To Become CFO At Quantcast
Audience measurement company Quantcast has poached Julio Pekarovic away from Google to become its new chief financial officer. Pekarovic worked at Google for the past seven years, most recently as…
How Does Compete Get Its Web Traffic Data? At Least One Way Sounds Very Sketchy.
A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore. He felt they were using sketchy tactics to bully people into their pay-to-play model for…
Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred Wilson Drags Us Into It. $SCOR
Jason Calacanis, our partner over the years on the TechCrunch50 conference, wrote quite a rant yesterday about analytics company Comscore. His argument: that Comscore has vastly undercounted traffic and visitors…
U.S. Mobile Web Usage Grew 110 Percent Last Year; Apple Dominates, Android No. 2
The mobile Web grew 110 percent in the U.S. last year and 148 percent worldwide as measured by growth in pageviews, according to a new Quantcast Mobile Trends report (embedded…
Quantcast Raises $27.5 Million Series C Round From Cisco And Prior Investors
Audience measurement company Quantcast has raised $27.5 million in a third round led by Cisco Systems and joined by Polaris Venture Partners. Other previous investors, namely The Founders Fund and…
Quantcast Closes $20 million Series B
Web metrics service Quantcast has closed $20 million Series B in a round that included Founders Fund and Polaris Venture Partners. Quantcast offers a “new media measurement service” that competes…
Founders Fund Closes $220 Million Second Fund
San Francisco based Founders Fund launched in 2005 with a $50 million venture fund. They’ve had two liquidity events since then, and a handful of other very high profile investments…