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Meta (META) to allow European users to opt out of targeted ads

March 30, 2023 1:25 PM EDT

The Wall Streel Journal reports Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter, that social media platform company, Meta (NASDAQ: META) is preparing to allow European Facebook and Instagram users to opt out of certain highly personalized ads.

The move comes as part of a plan to limit the impact of a European Union privacy order that was approved in December. The European regulators ruled that Meta shouldnt require users to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity, a ruling that could limit the... More

KeyBanc confident in Intuit's defensive positioning, says Microsoft the survey leader in UCaaS

March 29, 2023 2:09 PM EDT

KeyBanc Capital Markets raised its price targets on Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) to $475 and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to $316 per share in a note to clients on Wednesday, maintaining Overweight ratings on both.

Analysts at the firms explained that they... More

Tech executives including Elon Musk push for a pause in the development of new AI tools - WSJ

March 29, 2023 10:33 AM EDT

Tech executives, including Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and director of the University of Montreal's Institute for Learning Algorithms Yoshua Bengio, are pushing for a pause in the development of powerful new AI tools, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

The publication said the supporters of the potential pause believe it... More