Looking Back to Look Forward: 2024’s Top Email ThreatsInformation Security Buzz 1/29/2025VIPRE Security Group recently released their latest annual email threat landscape report, “Email Security in 2025: What to Expect from the Evolving Email Threat Landscape.” Drawing insights from the billions of emails VIPRE processed in 2024, the report offers a comprehensive view of last year’s email security threats to help us make sense of the year ahead.Read Article
Introducing the CVS Health® app: Your go-to companion for health & wellnessYahoo! Finance 1/28/2025CVS Health's external partnership with Everyday Health on its newly launched app offers consumers health and wellness content, including thousands of educational articles from Everyday Health, all reviewed by medical professionals.Read Article
Castle Connolly Releases Healthcare Accolades for 2025Morningstar 1/28/2025"By recognizing institutions with the most Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Accolades highlight the leadership and excellence of these healthcare providers," says Steve Leibforth, Castle Connolly's Managing Director. "For patients, this recognition is a valuable tool in making informed healthcare decisions, knowing they are receiving care from the best in the field."Read Article
Ziff Davis to Participate in One Investor Conference in FebruaryYahoo! Finance 1/28/2025Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD), today announced its participation in one investor conference in February: SIG Susquehanna 14th Annual Tech Conference.Read Article
T-Mobile is 5G download speed king in new network tests against Verizon and AT&TPhone Arena 1/23/2025Ookla's Speedtest Intelligence report revealed that T-Mobile remained the fastest carrier in the United States with a median download speed of 212.77 Mbps, compared to the 95.08 Mbps that AT&T logged, or the slowest Verizon Wireless with 86.23 Mbps. For upload network speeds, T-Mobile's network was also the quickest with 11.45 Mbps and a latency of just 49 ms, the lowest among the three major US carriers.Read Article
BabyCenter releases list of names ‘heading for extinction’ in 2025: See full listUSA Today 1/16/2025Catherine, Jaden, Anne, Phillip, Jamal and Esteban are some of the names that we'll be seeing less of in 2025, a new survey by BabyCenter has revealed. Other names falling in popularity include Edward, Erin, Kelsey, Cannon and Emery. "To kick off 2025, BabyCenter looked at the names that are sharply declining in popularity and could be headed for extinction this year," the company said in a news release Thursday. "These are the names we expect to see much less of this year as Generation Beta babies are born."Read Article
Castle Connolly Releases Castle Connolly 2025 Top DoctorsMorningstar 1/15/2025"We understand that patients are increasingly turning to online sources to make informed healthcare decisions," said Steve Leibforth, Managing Director of Castle Connolly. "Our Top Doctors list serves as a trusted tool, helping patients confidently navigate their healthcare journey by connecting them with leading medical professionals recognized for their expertise and commitment to excellence."Read Article
AI is making your nutrition goals as easy as taking a photoCNN 1/13/2025Ziff Davis’ Lose It! was featured on CNN Health, spotlighting its app’s cutting-edge features for food tracking, which help users reach their health goals. Watch the segment.Read Article
2025 Cybersecurity Trends from VIPRE: SMEs a Target and AI Malware to Fuel Supply Chain Attacks, With Regulatory Burden Amplifying Security Training UrgencyYahoo! Finance 1/7/20252024 saw increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity threats as criminals leveraged all forms of AI to create difficult-to-detect phishing attacks, deepfakes, and ransomware incidents...In 2025, as AI evolves further in sophistication and adoption, alongside the growing burden of data breach costs and regulation – in addition to implementing advanced cybersecurity measures, organizations must prioritize real-world security awareness training...Usman Choudhary, Chief Product & Technology Officer, VIPRE Security Group, offers his thoughts on security trends that will dominate in 2025.Read Article
Ziff Davis Completes One Acquisition in Q4 2024Yahoo! Finance 1/2/2025Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD), announced today that it completed one acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2024.Read Article
IPVanish doubles up in security and usabilityTechRadar 12/5/2024IPVanish, one of the best VPN services on the market, just doubled down on its offering with a new upgrade.For starters, the VPN provider now has over twice as many servers available, worldwide, bringing the total to 108 countries. IPVanish said the move is to bolster users' accessibility. The service boost also includes a new Double Hop VPN feature, available across all its Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iOS, and Android VPN apps.Read Article
What To Expect poll finds ‘magic number’ on what parents spend on giftsMassLive 11/30/2024In a poll of nearly 500 moms, data shows that many parents plan on spending an average of $173 on gifts per child this holiday season. The poll, published by "What to Expect," reveals the age of a child doesn’t have a strong impact on how much parents are forking out for the holidays...While factors like a parents' salary and how many children are in the home influence how much is spent per child, the “magic number” trends towards an average of $173 per child.Read Article
Ziff Davis Appoints Lori Tansley as Chief Accounting OfficerYahoo! Finance 11/26/2024“Lori is a highly skilled executive with deep finance, M&A, and accounting experience at leading companies,” said Bret Richter, Chief Financial Officer of Ziff Davis. “Her expertise and extensive relevant experience will be an asset to Ziff Davis in its continued pursuit of our long-term goals.”Read Article
Ziff Davis to Participate in One Investor Conference in DecemberYahoo! Finance 11/21/2024Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD), today announced its participation in one investor conference in December: UBS Global Technology and AI Conference.Read Article
This is the ‘worst’ birth date of the year, say pregnant moms: ‘It’s too stressful’New York Post 11/20/2024“The results are in, and 40% of moms shared that the worst of the worst birthdays is December 25,” revealed study authors from WhatToExpect.com, a virtual pregnancy and parenting hub. “There’s a lot going on at Christmastime,” continued the experts, “and many moms in the What to Expect community have expressed their grievances about late December birthdays, in general."Read Article
Spiceworks Launches 13th Annual State of IT Report: Rising Costs, AI Investments, and Workforce Challenges Take Center StageMorningstar 11/13/2024Spiceworks, a leader in IT insights and solutions, launches its 13th Annual State of IT report, providing a comprehensive outlook on rising costs, workforce demands, and the impacts of generative AI. Released in partnership with Aberdeen Strategy & Research, the report sheds light on essential strategies for IT resilience and growth in 2025. The 2025 report highlights the growing importance of security, the rising cost of IT resources, and the critical need for talent development in the face of skills shortages, providing companies with a roadmap to plan for resilience and innovation.Read Article
Ziff Davis Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Reaffirms 2024 GuidanceYahoo! Finance 11/7/2024"We are very pleased with our third quarter results," said Vivek Shah, Chief Executive Officer of Ziff Davis. "We are seeing improvements in the businesses that we currently own, as well as opportunities to leverage our strong balance sheet and free cash flows to acquire businesses that we would like to own."Read Article
RetailMeNot’s Annual Holiday, Cash Back Day, Returns: Unwrap the Season’s Deepest Cash Back Offers November 7-9Morningstar 11/7/2024Today, RetailMeNot, a Ziff Davis company, kicks off Cash Back Day, an exclusive shopping event running November 7-9 that empowers RetailMeNot members to kick off the holiday shopping season with thousands of deals and cash back offers of up to 20% from top retailers, including UGG, Tarte Cosmetics, Macy's, Walmart, Viator, Anthropologie, Alo Yoga and more. This three-day savings event makes it easier than ever for shoppers to check off every item on their holiday lists while putting cash back into their wallets at hundreds of their favorite retailers.Read Article
Exclusive: Ziff Davis study says AI firms rely on publisher data to train modelsAxios 11/5/2024Ziff Davis says their analysis of publicly available datasets makes it clear that AI firms rely disproportionately on commercial publishers of news and media websites to train their LLMs. The paper — authored by Ziff Davis' lead AI attorney, George Wukoson, and its chief technology officer, Joey Fortuna — finds that for some large language models, content from a set of 15 premium publishers made up a significant amount of the data sets used for training.Read Article
9 Baby Name Trends To Look Out For In 2025HuffPost 10/31/2024“Since we’ve been analyzing baby names and reporting on them for two decades now, we’ve seen a ton of trends come and go,” said Rebekah Wahlberg, a baby name trends specialist at BabyCenter. “The 2025 trend forecast tells us a couple things about the future of baby naming: One, parents are very willing to get playful with their daughters’ names. And two, names are less ubiquitous than ever before ― where there used to be three Sarahs, we now have an Olivia, an Emma, and a Luna. Traditional names are deconsolidating as parents choose from a wider variety of names.”Read Article
Business Email Compromise (BEC) Impersonation: The Weapon of Choice of Cybercriminals, Finds VIPRE’s Q3 2024 Email Threat ReportYahoo! Finance 10/28/2024"The findings of this report yet again illustrate the sophistication of criminal tactics. BEC email and phishing attacks are becoming more targeted and convincing," Usman Choudhary, CPTO, VIPRE Security Group, says. "Additionally, malware distribution through malicious spam campaigns continues to pose a serious threat to organisations. These findings stress the critical need for robust cybersecurity measures and ongoing employee education to combat these evolving threats, especially as bad actors gear up for the upcoming holiday season – Black Friday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year."Read Article
BabyCenter releases the most popular baby names for 2024: See which names made the listUSA Today 10/22/2024Noah, Liam, Oliver for boys and Olivia, Amelia and Emma for girls were among the most popular names for babies in 2024, new research by BabyCenter has found. Noah was the most popular name for boys followed by Liam and Oliver, while Olivia was the most popular for girls followed by Amelia and Emma, BabyCenter said in a news release Monday, adding "'E' names for boys" and names ending with "-lee" or "-lyn" for girls were becoming popular.Read Article
Ziff Davis to Participate in One Investor Conference in NovemberYahoo! Finance 10/22/2024Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD), today announced its participation in one investor conference in November: 2024 RBC Capital Markets Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference.Read Article
Health eCareers and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Announce PartnershipMorningstar 10/17/2024“We believe this partnership will provide our members with invaluable tools to advance their careers,” said Dr. Bill Steinbach, president of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. “Health eCareers’ dedication to supporting healthcare professionals, particularly in specialized fields like pediatric infectious diseases, coupled with their innovative approach to career development, will ensure our members have access to top-tier job opportunities and resources tailored to their needs.” Read Article
Ziff Davis to Announce Third Quarter 2024 EarningsYahoo! Finance 10/17/2024Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD) will release its Third Quarter 2024 Earnings at 6:00PM ET on Thursday, November 7, 2024. Additionally, Ziff Davis invites the public, members of the press, the financial community, stockholders, and other interested parties to listen to a live audio Webcast of its Third Quarter 2024 Earnings Call at 8:30AM ET on Friday, November 8, 2024.Read Article
Popular VPN boosts its security game and brings your browsing to the cloudTechRadar 10/16/2024"Secure Browser is something unique, which we don't see any other major VPN or antivirus players putting on the market," Subbu Sthanu, Chief Commercial Officer for Consumer Security at Ziff Davis (IPVanish parent company) told me. The key idea here is to move your "window to the world," as Sthanu put it, from your device to a sandbox in the cloud on IPVanish servers. Users interact with it through a video feed directly through the browser, while their activities remain isolated in the virtual environment.Read Article
AV-Comparatives 2024 Endpoint Prevention and Response Test Report Names VIPRE ‘Strategic Leader’Yahoo! Finance 10/15/2024"VIPRE distinguished itself notably in our evaluations, demonstrating formidable system protection capabilities. Furthermore, it achieved a leading position in terms of total cost of ownership, underscoring its exceptional value proposition for enterprises," Peter Stelzhammer, Co-founder, AV-Comparatives, commented.Read Article
As more BEAD plans get approval, Ookla asks: Where do the states stand on broadband speeds?RCR Wireless 10/8/2024As $42.5 billion in federal funding makes it way to the states to be translated into infrastructure deployment projects, Ookla recently assessed how the 50 U.S. states stand in terms of delivery of broadband speeds. Ookla examined its Speedtest data for broadband services in terms of the percentage of Speedtest users in a state who experienced at least 100 Mbps downlink/20 Mbps uplink speeds—the Federal Communications Commission’s new minimum standard for broadband.Read Article
RetailMeNot: Holiday shoppers to spend over $1K each in 2024Chain Store Age 10/4/2024New data from RetailMeNot indicates consumers will spend early and often this holiday season. According to results of two consumer surveys from RetailMeNot, respondents plan to spend an average of $1,069 on holiday purchases in 2024, up an impressive 14% from 2023. This figure includes $717 to be spent on others and $353 on themselves. The survey also found that 76% of respondents plan to get started on their holiday shopping before Thanksgiving, with 40% having already started.Read Article
Ziff Davis Completes One Acquisition in Q3 2024Yahoo! Finance 10/1/2024Ziff Davis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZD) announced today that it completed one acquisition in the third quarter of 2024.Read Article