100+ internal training manuals and other docs show guidelines for Facebook content moderators on topics like violence, hate speech, terrorism, porn, self-harm
Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant's ethics
Ford replaces Mark Fields as CEO with Jim Hackett, head of its autonomous vehicle unit
DEARBORN, Mich. — In a shake-up reflecting the pressures on the American auto industry, Ford Motor replaced its chief executive, Mark Fields, on Monday and vowed to catch up in the race …
AngelList and Protocol Labs launch CoinList, a funding platform for token-based networks; Filecoin will be the first initial coin offering on the platform
For a new form of funding, initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have been raising money at astonishing speed — amassing about $440 million …
How Facebook conducted research, commissioned by an advertiser, on minors' emotional states, which was then shared in a presentation to potential advertisers
Data mining is such a prosaic part of our online lives that it's hard to sustain consumer interest in it, much less outrage.
Inside Facebook's Telecom Infra Project, which wants to do for the telecom equipment market what Open Compute Project did for data center hardware
On an ordinary work day in mid-2016, a handful of Facebook engineers were sitting on the couches in a corner of the company's Menlo Park …
EU financial services chief opposes rules proposed by European Banking Authority that ban account info screen scraping and force fintech firms to use bank APIs
The European Union's financial services chief said on Friday he will ask the bloc's banking watchdog to rethink its proposed ban on …
Peer-to-peer payments app Verse, which is now live in 27 countries, raises $20.5M Series B led by Spark Capital to power its push beyond Europe
Social payments app Verse has closed a $20.5 million Series B round of funding from its existing investors. The round is led by Spark Capital …
Affinity raises $13.5M to build out its CRM toolkit tailored for venture capitalists, investment bankers, and other investors
For the venture capitalists, hedge funders, investment bankers and private equity folks trawling the skyways looking for deals, there's nothing more important than a strong network. Tweets: @jacksonda...
Desktop virtualization startup Frame raises $16M Series A with Microsoft Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, In-Q-Tel participating, says revenue tripled in 2016
COMMUNITY: — Frame raised $16 million to help build out a cloud-based platform that hosts desktop workspaces capable of handling data-intensive applications.
Patreon says it now has 1M monthly active paying patrons and 50K active creators, both doubling YoY, and is on track to pay out $150M to creators in 2017
Patreon's novel idea of fans just directly paying the artists they love is having its hockey stick moment. Tweets: @dickc and @joshconstine See also Mediagazer Tweets: Dick Costolo / @dickc : Kudos to...
Amazon Charts, Amazon's new book rankings, lists books by most sold and most read per week, taking into account Kindle reading and Audible listening stats
Amazon has long relied on customers providing feedback and providing other ranking data as part of the process of encouraging more sales … Tweets: @stevesi Tweets: @stevesi : Totally love improved/new...
How the mission and spirit of Google's ATAP group changed, after Facebook hired its chief Regina Dugan, to become more focused on shipping market-ready products
Almost three years ago, one of Google's most celebrated executives took the stage at the company's big developer conference …
Etsy is under pressure from activist investors to grow revenue, reduce spending and perks, and give up its ethical ideals
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage … Tweets: @chafkin , @ross , @schingl...
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.