The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Not long after it blocked Facebook , Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country as well. The company provides mobile services in Myanmar.

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Vox

MAY 18, 2023

The Supreme Court handed down two high-stakes tech decisions on Thursday — cases that, if handled ineptly, could have destroyed much of the internet and subjected social media companies to devastating liability. . | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Clarence Thomas did something right, for a change.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The rebrand would likely position the blue Facebook app as one of many products under a parent company overseeing groups like Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, and more.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could potentially break much of the internet — and seemed to realize the risks of heading down that path. As Justice Elena Kagan warned at one point during the Gonzalez argument, the justices are “not the nine greatest experts on the internet.” Gonzalez v.

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The Verge

MARCH 20, 2021

Twitter is planning to establish a legal entity in Turkey to continue operating there under the country’s controversial internet law that took effect last year , the company announced late Friday. Under the law, social media companies that have more than 1 million users must store Turkish users’ data in the country.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2023

(Twitter Images via @Seahawks) NFL teams have been having a ball the past couple days with social media posts tied to the release of their upcoming season schedules. But this is 2023, and the internet demands more than that. Companies are racing to develop various AI platforms and tools.

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Vox

MAY 17, 2022

Companies are getting better at responding to incidents like the Buffalo shooting. Saturday’s racially motivated made-for-the-internet mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, went differently. The unfettered spread of murder videos on the internet is an important problem to solve. Libby March/Washington Post via Getty Images.

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Trends in the Living Networks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Research company Nielsen has just released detailed statistics on online activity , focusing on social networks and blogging, which at 22.5% of time spent online dominate Internet usage, with more than twice the next category games, at 9.8% Social networking is the second most valued feature on smartphones after GPS.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 8, 2021

Large chunks of the internet were offline starting shortly before 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, including everything from CNN to the British government, in an outage being blamed on Fastly, a content distribution network used by hundreds of high-profile websites. Gizmodo was also down during this morning’s outage. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More than two years and a company rebrand later, Meta is finally opening up access to its VR social platform Horizon Worlds. First announced in September 2019 as a private beta, Horizon Worlds has evolved from primarily being a Minecraft -like environment for building games to more of a social platform.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2021

Twitter is now complying with the Indian government’s new internet rules, a lawyer representing the federal government has told a court in Delhi, Bloomberg reports. In May, police in India raided the social media company’s offices after it labelled a tweet from a government official as “ manipulated media.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR and requiring users to log into the virtual reality app using a Microsoft account. The social hubs in AltspaceVR were designed “to help foster new friendships” and act as an entry point to get familiar with AltspaceVR itself. Microsoft acquired AltspaceVR in 2017.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

So far this year, it’s taken three separate companies to court and won, on charges of making hacks for Destiny 2, the most recent of which was the Indian company Lavicheats in May. Notably, the suit targets six Ring-1 employees by name, ten by their Internet handle, and another 40 as John Does, rather than Ring-1 itself.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Facebook and all of its affiliated companies and services suddenly disappeared from the web on Monday—an outage that lasted over five hours and left users unable to reach their FB, WhatsApp, or Instagram accounts. Rumors and conspiracy theories soon spread that the social media giant had been hacked, or that it was… Read more.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

There’s a lot of chatter these days about Web3 — a decentralized version of the internet that operates outside the confines and grips of social media and technology giants. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and the company declined to disclose valuation or revenue figures. Department of Homeland Security.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Images via Internet Archive and U.S. Brooks Sports, the Seattle-based athletic footwear and apparel company, is escalating its legal battle against Brooks Brothers by challenging the menswear maker’s recent “Back to Brooks” social media and marketing campaign.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 28, 2021

Law enforcement doesn’t have much trouble getting access to data from social media companies. In fact, over the first half of last year, authorities in the US made close to 118,000 requests for user information from tech companies—a number that’s more than twice the number of requests thrown at these companies since… Read more.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The internet loves a good sci-fi rumor, and one of the most persistent involves Elon Musk robot wives work. Articles and social media posts have circulated for years, claiming that Musk’s companies, like Tesla or Neuralink, are developing humanoid robots specifically designed for companionship and intimacy. Let us explain.

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GeekWire

MAY 16, 2020

Michael “Luni” Libes did not want to launch another company. When his Seattle-based mobile analytics company Ground Truth underwent a merger in 2011 , he decided to try something else. ” So in 2012, Libes launched Fledge , a startup accelerator that focuses on socially conscious, mission-driven, for-profit companies.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

million to launch Block Party , an anti-harassment startup that helps people filter abuse out of their social media experiences. Behind all these stories, I think, is a kind of despair over what public social networks have done to public debate. Last month, Tracy Chou announced that she had raised a little under $1.5

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Galido

JULY 17, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - Using the Internet to Get Your Business Back on Track - Information Technology Blog. Build up your company finances. First things first, you can use the internet to build up your company finances. Once again, you can research on the internet. Manage your investment portfolio.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

Reuters reported the news this morning in an interview with Nicholas Rasmussen, executive director of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT). GIFCT — launched in 2017 by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube — maintains a database of terrorist content that helps member companies find it for review or removal.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 4, 2021

China’s ByteDance has already seen wild success with TikTok, its social media subsidiary that’s turned into a massive thorn in Facebook’s side. Now, it looks like the company is stepping into Amazon’s turf, too. Insider was first to report on Monday that ByteDance is planning on building an international shopping… Read more.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Comcast is increasing the speed of its Internet Essentials package from 25/3 Mbps to 50/5 Mbps starting March 1, 2020 at no additional cost. The change is part of what the ISP says is a long-term commitment to digital equity, and that offering low-income households speeds above the FCC-defined minimum will help to… Read more.

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Galido

JULY 25, 2018

Information Technology Blog - - The Power of Social Media and Impact of Technology on Online Business Campaign - Information Technology Blog. When it comes to small business marketing, we still cannot ignore the importance of internet based marketing. Internet of Everything. Use Mobile for Instagram Marketing.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2021

A new Russian law will require large social media companies to open offices in Russia if they don’t want to face advertising bans or other penalties , according to a report by Reuters. According to a Russian official, the law affects companies that have over 500,000 Russian visitors a day.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2021

Tesla has launched a new social platform on its website geared at letting owners and fans of the brand “[t]ake actions on behalf of Tesla and the movement for cleaner energy.” Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. They can also follow individual accounts to stay up to date with other users’ comments.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Plans include investments to add capabilities to the company’s AI digital assistant, called “A.”; stake in South Korea-based AI software company Konan Technology. stake in South Korea-based AI software company Konan Technology. trillion won (US$8 billion), according to. Docomo joins Web3 revolution.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 3, 2012

Here is a very good compilation of statistics, perspectives, and news on social media as at the middle of 2012: 2H12: The State of Social Media & Social Media Marketing in the Second Half of 2012. Facebook has 71% of social network ad revenue. - Facebook has 71% of social network ad revenue.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2022

Almost all major IT companies have joined the West’s global economic sanctions against Russia in recent weeks. The following is an overview — without claiming to be exhaustive — of companies from all over the world that have temporarily suspended all or part of their business in Russia. How the IT industry reacted. Huawei: The U.K.’s

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2024

(GeekWire File Photo / Taylor Soper) Beyond, the publicly traded company behind Bed Bath & Beyond and Overstock, confirmed Thursday that it has acquired brand assets from Zulily, the online retailer that shut down last year. The company was valued at $4 billion following its IPO a decade ago. Beyond paid $4.5 million shoppers.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

English soccer teams and organizations are all shutting down their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts for the weekend as part of a massive social media blackout to advocate for better policies regarding discrimination and abuse that players and members of clubs receive on those platforms.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2022 Internet Crime Report , which reveals the trends and impacts of cybercrime in the United States. The report is based on 800,944 complaints of suspected internet crime reported to the FBI last year, with losses exceeding $10.3

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship — and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images.

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Galido

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Information Technology Blog - - Successful SaaS Marketing Strategies for Software Companies - Information Technology Blog. The rise of startups causes competition to be increasingly abundant and aggressive, how can your software company differentiate itself? The solution is widely used in the largest software companies worldwide.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet. The need for improved rural internet service has been recognized by both governments and businesses alike.

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