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.
Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation
SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
How Facebook became synonymous with the internet in a newly democratic Myanmar and ended up relying on civil society groups for help in policing rumors
The riots wouldn't have happened without Facebook. — ON THE THE evening of July 2, 2014 a swelling mob of hundreds … Tweets: @tmclaughlin3 , @nxthompson , @rama_rajeswari , @joinson , @tmclaughlin3 ...
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.
China Merchants Group, a state-owned conglomerate based in Hong Kong, backs $15B China-focused technology fund that aims to compete with SoftBank's Vision Fund
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Sonos files for an IPO; filing reports 19M+ products sold globally and a net loss of $14.2M on revenue of $992.5M in the year ending September 30, 2017
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Uganda pressures ISPs to ban VPNs in an effort to force users to pay a social media tax meant to combat what the president calls “gossip”
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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 …
Microsoft will now deliver two major Dynamics 365 feature updates a year; IT pros can validate updates in sandbox environment starting with April 2019 update
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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 … Tweets: @akomanet Tweets: aKoma / @akomanet : A big shame. Content cre...
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff files for IPO; S-1: 1.9M users, 40% of US consumer connected camera systems market, ~$101M in previous quarter revenue
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Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, says it's developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities
Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk :
US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit upholds FAA's ability to police hobbyist drone use, overturning a decision from last year that said FAA's system was illegal
Bloomberg :
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 …
Hands-on with the iOS 12 Shortcuts beta: the ability to hook into system events is a big upgrade, but it is otherwise similar to the original Workflow app
Peter Cao / 9to5Mac : Tweets: @davemark , @viticci , @viticci , @viticci , @stroughtonsmith , @stroughtonsmith , @stroughtonsmith , @stroughtonsmith , @viticci , @viticci , @lorenzolade , and @livbem...
Q&A with Chris Cox, Facebook's product chief across all its platforms, on free speech, working with fact checkers, Instagram's toxic comments filter, regulation
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