Richard Atkins

Richard Atkins is a senior contributor at Tech Insider covering online media, online travel, and video games. Richard has been with Tech Insider covering companies in these industries since 2011 and has authored numerous industry reports, including "Internet Video: Field of Dreams or Nightmare on Elm Street," "The Next Leg of Online Travel," and "Pwned: How Casual Games Changed The Gaming Landscape." Atkins was recognized as the No. 2 stock picker and earnings estimator in the 2011 Financial Times / StarMine Internet & Catalog Retail category and was ranked in the 2010 Wall Street Journal "Best On The Street" for the Leisure Goods & Services category.

Active Stock: Facebook (NASDAQ FB) Faces Official Complaints over News Feed Experiment

Facebook (NASDAQ FB) is in trouble for its privacy practices yet again. This time the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a privacy watchdog group, has filed an official complaint against Facebook for its 2012 emoticon study. The complaint states that Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) didn’t obtain the consent of users before conducting the study. Last weekend,…

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