 |  | | | Top Stories - April 7, 2016 | Net-Neutrality Coiner Concerned About Google Search
| | Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School in New York, said he thinks the FTC or Justice Department, or both, should be looking anew at Google and new evidence it has been favoring its own content in local search. more | WHY THIS MATTERS: Calling it a complicated case, Wu -- who coined the term net neutrality -- said research since the FTC closed an investigation against the search giant in 2013 indicates that "in certain areas Google is manipulating its search in an anti-competitive way," and added, "I think there is stronger evidence of consumer harm now."
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| | Cox Goes Wide With New 'Contour' | | In the wake of a deal announced late last year to license Comcast's X1 platform on a national basis, Cox Communications has launched its new cloud-based video platform to almost all of its markets. more | | WHY THIS MATTERS: With its agreement to license X1, Cox essentially picked Comcast's platform to underpin the its so-called "future state" video project, which it first trialed in San Diego. |
| | #AdvancedAd 2016: Small Ad Loads in TV's Big Picture | | Thanks to ad-blocking tech, ad-skipping DVRs and ad-free SVOD services, avoiding advertising has never been easier for consumers, a trend that obviously does not bode well for the future of the TV ad model. more | | WHY THIS MATTERS: TV's ad future, particularly in an on-demand world, doesn't have to be a bleak one, if the industry can figure out how to reduce heavy ad loads in a way that is more tolerable to the viewer, Joe Marchese, president of advanced advertising products at Fox Networks Group and the founder of true[X], said at the Advanced Advertising Summit, adding, "[T]he promise of advanced advertising is to make the same money with a lot less ads." |
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