GeekWire

JUNE 26, 2021

Before the advent of Windows, WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were the de facto market leaders on the MS-DOS operating system. Microsoft, for example, failed to recognize how its hold on the PC industry would be disrupted first by the internet and later by mobile devices. Livemocha’s homepage in 2013.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The evolution from local markets to international arenas is not just an opportunity but a necessity fueled by the expansive reach of the internet and digital marketing tools. Its capabilities in creating, publishing, and distributing DRM-protected content across various devices and operating systems are invaluable.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 4, 2021

Members of a New York University research team studying political advertising and covid-19 misinformation on Facebook found their accounts suspended Tuesday night, with Facebook pinning the action on the privacy settlement it reached with federal regulators in 2019. Read more.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 23, 2021

On one hand, online ads are a crucial (albeit annoying AF ) piece of internet architecture; the hundreds of billions of dollars in digital ad spend getting poured into the internet each… Read more. If you read enough stories about the nuts and bolts of ad revenue, you’ll notice this weird incongruity that crops up again and again.

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Galido

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Within it, you’ll find everything from hardware developers through to software companies and even social media platforms. If you are internet savvy enough to be considering online trading, then you almost certainly know what Facebook’s selling proposition is to its users – it connects people. A good example is Facebook.

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Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Although its use remains in the gray area, telemetry data can provide you with the most accurate information you can get from an actively operating system. In fact, this data collection management, which most popular algorithmically based social media applications have been using for a long time, may not be as evil as we think.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 6, 2021

When the Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for deceiving its users on privacy, it celebrated the fine as “record-breaking and history-making.” Two years and $200 billion in revenue later, Facebook has found a way to turn lemons into lemonade, deceiving its users once again and using a seemingly… Read more.

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Gizmodo

MAY 4, 2021

A series of Instagram ads run by the privacy-positive platform Signal got the messaging app booted from the former’s ad platform, according to a blog post Signal published on Tuesday. The ads were meant to show users the bevy of data that Instagram and its parent company Facebook collects on users, by. targeting… Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 31, 2021

With its App Tracking Transparency policy launched in April, Apple overhauled its iPhone lineup’s privacy settings to give users more control over their data. That decision cost Snap, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube an estimated $9.85 billion in lost revenue in the second half of this year, the Financial Times reports. Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s implicitly understood that the roughly $200 billion that folks are expected to spend on digital ads this year in the US will be spent on more than a few phony figures , puffed-up sales pitches , and numbers that are just, well blatantly fake. It’s just a reality in the industry and no one is immune. But some of… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 18, 2021

It operates in a Zoom call with 100 participants, all of whom are bots. Watching Synthetic Messenger is a somewhat dissociative experience. Observers can watch these bots—which are strangely anthropomorphized with images of disembodied hands and voices that say “scroll” and “click” repeatedly—methodically scroll… Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Just two months after running a full-page ad decrying Apple’s impending updates, Facebook is rolling out another campaign meant to defend the targeted ads that make up about 98% of its multi-billion dollar revenue stream. Read more.

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Vox

JULY 1, 2022

When Mark Zuckerberg announced last year that Facebook was changing its name to Meta and that, within five years, the company would transition from being primarily a social media company to a “metaverse” one , many people were skeptical, confused, or downright scared. It’s not an operating system like Microsoft Windows.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

Or with social media. It's not what it used to be because of the noise level but there's still a ton of good content that comes out in social media if you curate your lists and don't engage with the trolls, which is hard to do. And of course now I'm unemployed and living off of donations, and most importantly pretty happy. It's there.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 27, 2023

Former VMware CEO and longtime Microsoft executive Paul Maritz is a major investor in True, a social app that vows not to sell or monetize user data. True shows it’s possible to build a social app “not predicated on a business model that requires you to abuse people’s information,” Maritz said.

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Vox

JULY 8, 2020

Your phone is the ideal tool for advertisers and data brokers, both as a means of collecting your information and serving you ads based on it. A company called Unacast used trackers in its SDK to grade counties on how well their residents socially distanced and stayed indoors. In this way, it’s similar to the internet.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

If we lived in a world with more than two mobile phone operating systems, it seems unlikely that Apple would be able to take 30 percent of an email app’s revenue just for hosting it in an app store. Despite this, Trump’s huge social media following almost guarantees any tweet will be widely seen on Twitter. Industry. ?

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The Verge

MAY 4, 2021

Shopify is one of those companies that makes the modern internet go — it makes software that allows businesses of all sizes to set up online stores, and from there it can handle everything from shipping orders to financing loans for expansion. We wanted to sell snowboards on the internet. You either listed it on a marketplace.

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Vox

AUGUST 11, 2020

Last week, President Trump seriously escalated his threats toward the social media app TikTok, which he has accused of posing a threat to national security. But many other popular social media apps do this, too. US social media companies have tried, unsuccessfully, to enter the Chinese market. So what’s actually going on?

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

What is the best case that Facebook unfairly dominates the advertising market, uses its power to reduce competition, and has harmed consumers by doing so? Facebook (with Google) now has an effective duopoly on digital advertising, and continues to acquire smaller social products that could threaten its dominance.

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