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But there's a lot more changing than just regulations about baby-changing tables and marijuana sales in 2018. Here's a look at the new laws now in effect in the country's most populous state: New salary rules In California, employers can no longer ask about your prior salary -- thereby preventing them from using your salary history to decide whether to make you a job offer or to determine how much to offer you.
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 Mashable and Vice, in particular, had been valued at levels disproportionate to their revenues, partly In the hope that online video ads would prove lucrative for publishers in a way that online display ads have not. That hope appears to have been misplaced.
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“Advertisers are increasingly demanding more granularity in targeting capabilities to reach consumers,” said Monica Peart, eMarketer’s senior director of forecasting. “Google and Facebook have positioned themselves at the front of this demand curve by being the ad publishers with some of the best-in-class targeting abilities in the digital ad market. With Facebook being able to provide targeting based on consumer interests and Google capitalizing on where those consumers have been through searches, both companies ensure their lead among digital ad publishers.”
Pinterest wants to grow its advertising business, so the social pinning site has tapped two executives from Google and Facebook to help boost its ad team.
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Even if the government does take real action against Big Tech, it’s not assured that the result will be to make its constituent firms any smaller or less influential. Franken, for instance, suggested in a speech that platforms such as Google and Facebook be treated more like utilities, applying principles analogous to net neutrality. That would constrain their actions, certainly. But Foer points out that the long-term result might be to further entrench them as, essentially, government-sanctioned monopolies. In the meantime, even with the public relations beating, it’s taking, Big Tech is only getting bigger—and richer.
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the biggest American internet companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft — “control much of the online infrastructure, from app stores to operating systems to cloud storage to nearly all of the online ad business.”

Meanwhile, most American homes and smartphones connect to the internet through a “handful of broadband companies — AT&T, Charter, Comcast, and Verizon, many of which are also aiming to become content companies, because why not.”

What these projects all have in common, though, is that they are free or mostly free, with business models that are dependent on advertising revenue. And with the giant platforms Facebook and Google soaking up 89 percent of all new digital ads, 

vast seas of venture capital — and the investors who supplied that capital IS beginning to realize that they may never get their money back.
Google and Facebook Tighten Grip on US Digital Ad Market - eMarketer
September 21, 2017 | Media Buying It's no longer news to say that Google and Facebook dominate the US digital ad market. But this year that supremacy is exceeding expectations, according to eMarketer's latest digital ad spending forecast.
Google and Facebook Still Reign Over Digital Advertising

It was a very good week for two of the biggest tech companies on Earth. Facebook announced it made $9.3 billion this quarter, a 45 percent increase compared with last year, while Google's parent company, Alphabet, posted earnings of $26 billion in the same time period, a 21-percent jump from a year ago.
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The List: Biggest Minnesota Venture Capital Firms ...
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Blume Ventures Venture capital firm, Blume Venture Advisor funds early-stage seed, startups, pre-series A, series B and late stage investments.
Mar 28, 2014 - Last year marked a major shift in venture capital interest back toward media companies, which investors have traditionally shunned. And for fast-growing digital media companies, it's hard to resist the allure of venture capital. Publishers like Vox Media and BuzzFeed raised over $330 million across 60 deals ...
VCs Take the Media - The Baffler
Still, even with its new name and mounting investor interest, Blumberg's company is a notional, if not strictly fictional, creation. It doesn't quite exist ... Venture capitalists have decided that there's money to be made in media, or at least in starting media companies—a fact that should concern us all. Blumberg's efforts