Quora, a question-and-answer website with 300 million users, says a data breach may have compromised 100 million users’ data.
Author: Mike Snider, USA TODAY
A multifaceted focus on games at The Game Awards this Thursday
Geoff Keighley, the creator and executive producer of The Game Awards, has worked three decades to finetune the game industry’s event.
Tumblr to ban all adult content beginning Dec. 17, and some users are fuming
Tumblr will ban adult content beginning Dec. 17. After child sex abuse content was found on it recently, Apple removed Tumblr from its App Store.
Americans prefer to watch news, on TV and online, rather than read it, study finds
Most Americans still like to watch, rather than read the news, a Pew Research Center study says. While 44 percent prefer TV, 34 percent use the web.
Nexstar to buy Tribune Media for $4.1 billion, become largest local TV group in U.S.
Nexstar will pay $4.1B to acquire Tribune Media’s 42 television stations. The deal gives Nexstar the largest U.S. collection of local TV stations.
Marriott says as many as 500 million Starwood guests’ data may have been breached
Marriott says a data breach allowed access to a database of information on as many as 500 million customers who have stayed at a Starwood property.
Starwood data breach: Here’s some ways to protect yourself
Marriott’s Starwood breach: If you stayed at hotels including Sheraton, St. Regis, Westin, Element, Aloft how can you protect your identity?
More than 1,000 breweries answer Sierra Nevada’s call for Camp Fire relief beer
Sierra Nevada Brewing has a beer to support its community hit by the Camp Fire. About 1,000 other breweries will brew it, too, and donate the proceeds.
Payless sold its discount shoes for $600 a pair at mock luxury influencer event
Troubled footwear maker Payless staged a luxury influencer event at “Palessi” where attendees paid hundreds for its “rebranded” discount-priced shoes.
YouTube content strategy shift means more free, ad-supported video
Rather than drive viewers to its subscription services for content, including originals, YouTube plans to shift to an ad-supported video strategy.