Sean Malone is executive producer at Return on Ideas, and helped build the creative team at the Foundation for Economic Education. As a creative, he understands how to develop an idea into a digestible concept that can resonate and amplify it. As a libertarian, he tries to help educate the world about the concept of…

Commentary I was visiting with a friend who told me an all-too-familiar story. Her teenage niece adores TikTok. Too much. She spends many hours a day on it. It’s become her secret world, much more influential over her outlook on life than her parents, church, or physical community. It shapes her values and opinions. She…

A study conducted by the University of Calgary in Canada into screentime of children globally found that around 75.3 percent of children aged under two and 64.4 percent of children aged two to five in these studies exceed guidelines for screentime in pre-pandemic periods. The current screentime guidelines globally are generally recommended to be no…

AT&T Inc agreed to sell its global programmatic advertising marketplace, Xandr Inc., to Microsoft Corp. The financial terms of the transaction remain undisclosed. The agreement builds on a decade-long relationship between Xandr, including its predecessor companies, and Microsoft for delivering global digital media solutions for advertisers. Xandr’s technology strategically complements Microsoft’s current advertising offerings and will help accelerate…

AOL and Yahoo are being sold again, this time to a private equity firm. Wireless company Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the once-pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a $5 billion deal. Verizon said Monday that it will keep a 10 percent stake in the new company, which will be…