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How Facebook focused on Myanmar's exploding connectivity, ignored hate speech warnings before 2014 riots, and can still take days to respond to emergencies — The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … | Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Jennifer Daniel, director of emoji for Android, describes the design process of Google's emoji and how every company's emoji is an extension of its brand — - The Unicode Consortium picks the actual content, but she gets to decide what makes an emoji “Googley” and design them accordingly.| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Analysis finds ~9K Instagram accounts are pretending to be the 10 most followed people on Instagram, highlighting a problem celebrities and social networks face — SAN FRANCISCO — Kip Moore, a country music singer-songwriter with hits like “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl,” has had some disturbing experiences with fans lately.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Groupon has contacted several public companies in the past few months to gauge interest in acquiring it; Groupon's revenues fell 5.6% in 2017 to $2.84B — The daily-deal pioneer's run as an independent company could be nearing an end. — Groupon's 10-year run as an independent company could be coming to an end.| Nielsen: |
Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 45.4% year-over-year to 268.2B in the first half of 2018 — The music industry is in the midst of a growth spurt that has led to 15-year record revenues for the major label groups and continues to break new consumption records for the first half of 2018.| Nicolás Misculin / Reuters: |
As inflation soars and unemployment grows, Argentines turn to Facebook Groups to arrange trades before exchanging goods in person in barter clubs — SAN MIGUEL, Argentina (Reuters) - At an abandoned train station in Buenos Aires' working-class suburb of San Miguel, hundreds of Argentines gather … | Claire Atkinson / NBC News: |
As Amazon's ad business surges, some advertisers worry they are giving it the data and market power it needs to eventually run them out of business — Amazon has already become something of a corporate boogeyman — and now it could be bringing its industry disruption to advertising.| Jennifer Elias / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Report details virtualized storage startup Tintri's fall from a $800M valuation to the brink of collapse due to management missteps and infighting — Tintri Inc. employees are speaking out about the dysfunction that led to the flash storage provider's precipitous decline.
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HBUS, a “strategic partner” of the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, has opened for business in the US with support for nine cryptocurrencies — Huobi-linked cryptocurrency exchange HBUS has formally opened for business in the U.S., providing one of the world's … | Liz Moyer / CNBC: |
Winklevoss' Gemini crypto exchange adds Robert Cornish, ex-NYSE CIO, as its first CTO, the latest in a wave of Wall Street executives joining crypto startups — - At NYSE, he was chief information officer, leading the Big Board's technology team as it overhauled electronic trading.
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US and Chinese tech giants compete in emerging markets with different strategies: US firms establish subsidiaries, Chinese companies invest in local players — Colossi such as Facebook and Tencent have never competed directly. Until now — | MUMBAI — TWO contests are under … | Shayera Dark / The Verge: |
Tanzania's law requiring online content creators to pay a hefty fee to register, identify sources, and disclose sponsors drives bloggers and YouTubers offline — The troubling trend has already spread to Uganda, which recently enacted a social media tax — In May, Tanzanian bloggers lost … Sponsor Posts
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