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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” has long been a common refrain about the business of social media. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure.

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Kaiser Permanente Discloses Data Breach Impacting 13.4 Million People

SecureWorld News

It is believed that PII (personally identifiable information) was transmitted to third-party vendors via mobile applications and other website tools used by the healthcare giant. Information collected by online trackers is often shared with an extensive network of marketers, advertisers, and data brokers.

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2017 Expectations: 5 Areas Where Technology Will Continue to Revolutionize Business Processes

CTOvision

Growing demand makes for more competition, so that businesses of all kinds are increasingly able to find specialized applications online to fill their needs. Advances in AI will make these applications even more automated and customized. Building relationships and word-of-mouth advertising is increasingly digital. Networking.

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Digital listening reveals 3 leading innovation drivers

CIO Business Intelligence

Because transactions are transparent, blockchain has the potential to increase trust and enable new types of disruptive applications and services, such as decentralized financial systems, marketplaces, and social networks. In these spaces, virtual and physical worlds can be unified, and what happens in one world can affect the other.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Neal Stephenson famously coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash , where it referred to a 3D virtual world inhabited by avatars of real people. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub. But wait, now Ready Player One isn’t a metaverse and virtual worlds don’t have to be 3D?

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. Amazon The Seattle tech giant will have its usual presence at CES across a range of businesses, including automotive, advertising, devices and more. The platform blends gamification with practical AI tool interactions. Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Five Ways IT Can Help Business Owners Cut Expenditure

Galido

To induct remote working into your business, you will need access to a number of social networking applications in order to contact employees, as well as email, and be able to share documents with tools such as the Cloud. Virtual Communication. Easier Marketing Campaigns.