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Apr 24, 2018
This post contains spoilers for 'Avengers: Infinity War'. If you don't want spoilers - don't read it!
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Apr 24, 2018
In its new-found spirit of transparency, Facebook is publishing its internal Community Guidelines and is introducing an appeals process for users who believe their content has been taken down unfairly.
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Apr 23, 2018
Two entrepreneurs reveal how to combine a love travel with incredible video content to change our world. And they know a lot about cofounder dynamics - they're married with a globetrotting family in tow.
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Apr 23, 2018
Brands seeking to protect their image should work directly with creators
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Apr 23, 2018
There comes a time in every marriage, or half of them anyway, when you know that the best solution to your marital issues is no marriage at all. So it goes with technology.
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Apr 23, 2018
A new PopSugar controversy has emerged as the brand has been accused of stealing thousands of influencers' images and monetizing them without permission.
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Apr 23, 2018
Old arguments about privacy and data stewardship are resurfacing. Emboldened politicians, government regulators and media pundits are circling for the kill. But don't bet against Facebook.
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Apr 23, 2018
Successful business executives have taken a cue from reality TV stars and have embraced the camera. What's different is they are staying in front of the camera all day and are documenting their lives with the help of full-time videographers. Their lives are now an open book, or better yet, video.
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Apr 23, 2018
Tech council members offer advice on when to adopt a new social media platform.
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Apr 23, 2018
After a series of fake ads featuring celebrities' names and faces, one British broadcaster is suing the company for defamation.
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Apr 22, 2018
In this week's "Social Media Roundup," you will learn about Facebook's plans to build its own chips and create new privacy controls, an Instagram Explore tab redesign, Pinterest's business profile pages getting revamped, Reddit's new COO and Snap's new Sponsored Filters.
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Apr 21, 2018
The iPhone X is a featured-packed technological marvel. The Light Phone isn't. But each represents a mobile phone future.
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Apr 20, 2018
Following the data breach involving Cambridge Analytica that embroiled Facebook and brought the social media giant CEO's Mark Zuckerberg to testify on Capitol Hill, are Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), run according to rules established through blockchain smart contracts, the future?
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Apr 20, 2018
We spend somewhere between 9.3 and 10.6 hours per day on digital device screens. Most of us are on them while using the bathroom, and many of us are even checking them at funerals or while having sex.
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Apr 20, 2018
Privacy settings are often overlooked... and suddenly you have guests you never expected are in your bedroom. Don't forget to check your settings.
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Apr 20, 2018
Angry Facebook users love seeing Mark Zuckerberg squirm on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers lecture him about privacy, transparency and online security. But the 2.2 billion account holders who keep coming back to Facebook share responsibility in the recent scandal.
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Apr 20, 2018
Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria. Two concerns, among many, as the 2018 hurricane season approaches.
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Apr 19, 2018
Interview with Kenneth Griffith, CEO of mSurvey which recently raised $3.5m to scale conversations across Africa
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Apr 19, 2018
Adobe's Amit Ahuja on Experience Makers
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Apr 18, 2018
Kanye and Jaden Smith should definitely be best friends.
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Apr 18, 2018
Young people are the future of business so why aren't more people listening to them? Why aren't more conferences dedicated to new thinking?
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Apr 18, 2018
Concerns over data privacy can't drive investment decisions, unless, of course, you're willing to abandon an entire sector. That said, Facebook has problems, some of which mirror the travails of Well Fargo.
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Apr 18, 2018
During his testimony to Congress, Mark Zuckerberg spent an inordinate amount of time praising Facebook's artificial intelligence capabilities. His answers, although direct and succinct, seemed to some to be cold and calculated, leaving us to wonder if Zuckerberg himself might be a little too robotic.
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Apr 18, 2018
Establishing a consistent brand voice is vital for marketers looking to create memorable connections with an audience.
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Apr 18, 2018
Last week, the women's swimwear and hosiery company hosted 180 influencers from 40 countries across the globe at their headquarters in Verona, Italy for a larger-than-life runway presentation to showcase its latest collection of bikinis and maillots.
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Apr 17, 2018
The families of two children killed in a 2012 Connecticut mass shooting are suing commentator Alex Jones for defamation over his allegations that the massacre was a hoax.
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Apr 17, 2018
Saying cities cannot be hit by a tornado is a myth. Greensboro, North Carolina recently was and other cities have been too. Here is the science of urban tornado frequency.
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Apr 17, 2018
In the wake of Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg's testimonial in front of Congress, I spoke with Charlene Li, founder and principal analyst of Altimeter, a Prophet company, and author of the groundbreaking, bestseller "Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies."
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Apr 17, 2018
One of the biggest, @lmao, has 10.5 million followers. Another, @Kingbach, has 15 million followers, and just reported the hacking attempt on his Instagram account.
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Apr 16, 2018
China is going after some of its most successful media companies in latest crackdown, which suggests broadened censorship scope and a further tightening up of its online environment.
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Apr 16, 2018
The explosion of social media marketing has elevated the concept of personal branding to create a new phenomenon— the "Celebrity CEO." Whether you're an entrepreneur or a CEO, crafting a brand strategy for yourself as the face of your company is as important as developing your company's brand image
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Apr 16, 2018
Social media is bringing us down, but community-powered entertainment platforms can pick us back up.
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Apr 16, 2018
I asked every person I knew, who was verified on Instagram, and they told me exactly how they did it.
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Apr 16, 2018
The real reason Facebook is committed to its current business model is that the price advertisers are willing to pay to invade Facebook users' privacy is vastly greater than what most consumers would be willing to pay to protect their privacy. This is unlikely to change any time soon.
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Apr 16, 2018
A large brand just totally ditched all their social media - is this the start of a disturbing new trend? No. No, it is not. Should you think carefully about your strategy and resources? Yes. Yes, you should.
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Apr 16, 2018
Screen time isn't great for anyone's brain. It may be a particular concern for kids'.
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Apr 16, 2018
Facebook is proving a popular place for the world's spies... as is Google Play.
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Apr 16, 2018
What everyday decisions are your employees making that are confusing customers and eroding your brand promise?
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Apr 16, 2018
Modern executives from CMO to CIO and even CEO are prone to falling into the "Tech Trap" because we live and work in a modern context and the signs of technology as progress are all around us...
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Apr 16, 2018
Budget travel expert Pauline Frommer tells how to save money and travel cheap.
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Apr 14, 2018
To understand how firms can provide employees with greater social media freedom while at the same time instilling greater discipline and managing the risk, Chip Roberson, Founder and CEO of Brandle, provides insight into how marketers can implement a social media governance plan.
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Apr 14, 2018
A report this week, albeit sketchy, points to possibilities for future iPhones.
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Apr 13, 2018
A better understanding of a brand's touchpoints, the customer's pain points and delights, and the quality of the overall experience can help set priorities, direct investments, and ultimately woo the connected customer.
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Apr 13, 2018
The mega streaming service Netflix is to television entertainment as Steam is to PC gaming. Last year Steam's total revenue from paid game sales was a huge $4.3 billion. Needless to say, whether you've heard of it or not, a lot of people are using it.
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Apr 13, 2018
On the heels of a well-rated Masters, the USGA is trying to keep up that excitement through the 118th U.S. Open in June.
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Apr 13, 2018
Following a Russian court's decision that the encrypted messaging app Telegram should be blocked in the country, the company's chief executive, Pavel Durov, has assured users that they will still retain access.
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Apr 13, 2018
Extend spring cleaning to your Internet-connected devices. Get rid of unused files and programs to help prevent hacking.
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Apr 13, 2018
Here are three reasons why you should not be distracted by the "global warming" vs "climate change" name game.
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Apr 13, 2018
There's a select few business leaders and innovators in the UK who are changing the world. A busy man, with big ideas, Forbes asks Slack CTO Cal Henderson how he gets it all done.
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Apr 12, 2018
Don't look into the camera ... facial recognition is here ... and everyone's watching ...
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Apr 12, 2018
"Given the market size in China, more tech companies worth billions of dollars will continue to emerge."
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Apr 12, 2018
An interior design site helps create your dream room in 3D.
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Apr 12, 2018
It was bad enough being Facebook's lab rats, but now all two billion of us will be lab rats for hire for academics all over the world, while those same researchers will be granted open season to manipulate our elections and digital lives all in the name of science.
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Apr 12, 2018
Another factor is simply cost. It's expensive to attend baseball games, on everything from parking to that $25 hot dog are factored in. And once you start adding kids, staying home and watching a $2 rental from RedBox seems a lot easier on the wallet.
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Apr 12, 2018
What's the difference between the new GoPro Hero and the GoPro Hero5 Session it replaces?
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Apr 12, 2018
There are several established healthcare companies and startups in the Femtech space, which use disruptive technology including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and the Internet of Things to develop interactive digital health applications for women's health.
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Apr 12, 2018
National Geographic will host the first ever Instagram Live video call from space this morning between Will Smith--host of the new show One Strange Rock--and astronaut Drew Feustel--Expedition 55 Flight Engineer currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.
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Apr 12, 2018
As Utah rivals Pluralsight and Domo pursue initial public offerings, Qualtrics' acquisition of Delighted, the startup behind customer ratings for Postmates and Uber, inches Utah's biggest cloud unicorn closer to its own IPO.
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Apr 12, 2018
The belief that Twitter is a morass of bots that tweet links to ideologically extreme political websites is not supported by data from over 1.2 million tweets analyzed by the Pew Research Center.
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Apr 12, 2018
West Africa's mobile industry is expected to contribute more than $50-billion every year to the region's economy by 2022, according to a GSMA study.
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Apr 11, 2018
The House committee's questions were overall more pointed and combative than the Senate's a day prior, digging into concerns about the scope of Facebook's data collection, whether Facebook communicates its policies simply enough to users and the social network's security vulnerabilities.
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Apr 11, 2018
Russia may be the US's biggest disinformation threat right now, but it is by no means the only one
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Apr 11, 2018
There is no doubt that a serious generational gap exists between state regulators and the tech giant, Facebook. But, how do cybersecurity experts like Herjavec Group's CEO, Robert Herjavec, feel about the recent Facebook data breach involving Cambridge Analytica? Read more here to find out.
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Apr 11, 2018
Would an "ad-free" Facebook really mean "surveillance free," does it really matter when the data brokers will continue buying and selling our data and will privacy belong only to the rich - no matter what, it is clear Facebook won't give up its users' data without a fight.
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Apr 11, 2018
The political research firm that has come under scrutiny for improperly acquiring the personal information of millions of Facebook users announced on Wednesday that its acting CEO Alexander Tayler has stepped down.
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Apr 11, 2018
When it comes to designing office and living spaces, people are relying on two social media platforms. The highly visual nature of Instagram and Pinterest make them ideal places for finding design inspiration, even making purchasing decisions.
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Apr 11, 2018
Five ways Mark Zuckerberg prepared for his congressional hearing this week.
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Apr 11, 2018
Facebook's lack of governance and its greed may end up shifting US privacy laws toward the heavy handed approach the EU has taken. Companies need to distance themselves from Facebook and ensure their legislators know one bad actor does not represent the U.S. business community.
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Apr 11, 2018
Londoners are rising faster with Learnerbly's lists of podcasts, events & books.
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Apr 10, 2018
Zuckerberg remained solemn but measured in a Congressional hearing on Tuesday on his company's privacy practices, stance on regulation and its plans to better protect the social network from election meddlers, discrimination and harmful content.
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Apr 10, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg gave all the right answers in his first grilling by US lawmakers but they weren't enough to quell public perception that Facebook is a law unto itself,especially with how it deals with its users' privacy.
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Apr 10, 2018
In an era of "fake news," or allegations thereof anyway, there's something that few readers seem to notice.
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Apr 10, 2018
As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress, the company has announced a new effort to weed out data abuse: a bounty program paying as much as $40,000 a throw.
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Apr 10, 2018
On National Library Week (April 8-14), a look at how librarians are becoming foot soldiers in the fight against fake news. To date, some of the best, grassroots responses to the tide of fake and misleading news have come from the library community.
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Apr 10, 2018
When it comes to finding creative inspiration, millennials are stepping away from the comfy confines of Adobe and heading to social media.
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Apr 10, 2018
We now know people don't have to be consciously aware that they are aroused for their reward system to highjack neural pathways. New research on addiction indicates social media "likes" and approval from others is changing the way we think and request plastic surgery. Welcome to 'Selfie Surgery'.
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Apr 10, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg has already admitted fault surrounding the Facebook Data breech, and his team of lawyers are preparing him for his testimony. Here are some additional tips for Mr. Zuckerberg that they may not have addressed.
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Apr 09, 2018
Part of the fun of the return of '90s sitcom "Roseanne" is the titular character's identification as a Trump voter (echoing the actress' actual political leaning) which fits with the zeitgeist of these turbulent times. Could other conservative-themed reboots be far behind?
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Apr 09, 2018
Growing marketing tech firms are helping to build the digital face of small businesses and should draw attention from both PE and strategic investors.
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Apr 09, 2018
We were struggling to understand why some of our customers successful with our product and others weren't? William Osman has the secret on his YouTube channel.
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Apr 09, 2018
The argument to secure Facebook's future may lie in an ancient formula of persuasion
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Apr 09, 2018
No, no, no...That is not a massive NASA cloud generating machine in that viral video. Here is the actual science.
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Apr 09, 2018
WAH Nails has 480,000 loyal Instagram followers, celebrity fans like Serena Williams, Margot Robbie and Jorja Smith and it partners brands like Marc Jacobs, Nike and British Airways. Now its founder is building her second business Beautystack—a kind of Instagram for beauty geeks.
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Apr 08, 2018
Violence will never be the answer to YouTube's demonetization controversies
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Apr 08, 2018
Today, It's important for all brands to show up as a trusted friend and partner to consumers. Consumer consideration is becoming narrower because they have so many choices and they're making choices based on "who" more so than "what".
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Apr 07, 2018
The ease of obtaining certification for the therapy animal designation has led to alleged cases of abuse. A passenger who attempted to bring her "emotional support peacock" onto a United Airlines flight a New York's LaGuardia airport may have jumped the line.
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Apr 06, 2018
I spoke with the four-man digital team powering the expansive personal brand of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.
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Apr 06, 2018
Perhaps in a world where social media platforms actually listened to the voices they were designed to empower, they could bring the planet's seven and a half billion citizens together to build a shared, democratic, bright digital future filled with hope.
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Apr 06, 2018
The media and political outcry is causing a backlash that will push Facebook to limit a business's abilities to effectively and ethically reach their markets. The opportunity to use Facebook to target specific potential customers based on psychographic metrics is not new.
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Apr 06, 2018
Sponsored content is jargon for articles that look like news stories but are really clickbait designed to support advertisers. Because they're meant to appeal, they do. Who wouldn't want "7 Great Ways To Meet Hot People" in the real world?
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Apr 06, 2018
Is Facebook's lack of regulation on its tobacco and tobacco-adjacent advertising a reason teens are vaping? Probably, most assuredly not, because teens aren't hanging out on Facebook waiting to be served tobacco ads to figure out vaping is cool.
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Apr 06, 2018
Zuckerberg is secretly airbrushing away his past, silently reaching into other peoples' private Messenger inboxes to selectively delete any imperfect traces of his past into the digital memory hole - even Orwell couldn't have imagined it better.
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Apr 06, 2018
While 87-million people were exposed globally, almost 60,000 South Africans were potentially compromised by the Cambridge Analytic scandal even though only 33 users in South Africa installed Aleksandr Kogan's digital personality app.
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Apr 06, 2018
Bleacher Report is launching an online streaming service, Bleacher Report Live, that will carry games from the National Lacrosse League.
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Apr 06, 2018
Major League Baseball and Facebook entered an exclusive deal to stream one game a week to the social media platform. How did it do? What are the numbers around it? And will it replace the television experience? Here's what came out of the first game streamed.
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Apr 06, 2018
Tucked away between the skyscrapers of London's financial district, Canary Wharf, is a cheery Dutch barge called the MV Dana. Its crew? A man, his dog, and a brilliant team designing your all-singing, all-dancing, digital photo album of the future.
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Apr 05, 2018
To Facebook we are all just data points to be secretly exploited, rather than human individuals whose informed consent must be gained - let's hope the future of data-driven medicine is more like Estonia's in which individuals have absolute ownership and control of their information.
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Apr 05, 2018
First Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat and now MailChimp. There's a technology old guard forming. Not as old as the Chinese state, but with the top Silicon Valley credentials, together they form a formidable enemy, or a least an ally we'd like to have. The question is, does it matter?
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Apr 05, 2018
If we are to have a societal reckoning about privacy, we need to stop talking just about Facebook and start talking about the myriad data brokers that buy and sell our digital selves every day and how we've become nothing but data for sale.
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Jan 31, 2018
A California lawsuit claims Tinder's habit of charging users older than 30 an extra $5-10 violates the state's civil rights laws around age discrimination.
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