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“TikTok Shop” Launch Makes US Social Commerce Plausible

Forrester IT

Bytedance officially launched its social commerce experience, “TikTok Shop,” in the US. It includes features such as a dedicated shop tab for searching products or browsing product categories, the ability for creators to tag products for purchase, an affiliate funnel for sellers, secure check-out, and brand product portfolios.

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

Hackers can learn a lot from a CIO’s social media Image Credit: Blogtrepreneur Every person with the CIO job knows what social media is. In fact, we all probably have Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media accounts. However, it turns out that there is a downside to social media that we may not be aware of.

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Facebook is shutting down its Face Recognition tagging program

The Verge

As part of it, the company will stop using facial recognition algorithms to tag people in photographs and videos, and it will delete the facial recognition templates that it uses for identification.

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Tag team: Mario and Zelda propel Nintendo to stellar quarter

TechSpot

The animated Mario flick didn't do much for critics and was widely shared on social media, but neither fact did much. Nintendo's strong showing was buoyed by the launch of The Super Mario Bros. Movie in early April and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom a month later. Read Entire Article

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Fortnite’s new ‘Party Worlds’ put the focus firmly on socializing

The Verge

Party Worlds” are new spaces coming to Fortnite which are designed to focus on socializing over combat, the game’s developer Epic Games has announced. Just use the tag “Party World” for an island, and submit it through this submission form. Walnut World is one of the two debut Party Worlds. Image: Epic. Image: Epic Games.

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Twitch Finally Adds Content Tags for Transgender, Black, and Other Communities

Gizmodo

Starting next week, Twitch is adding more than 350 new community tags to its streaming platform related to gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ability, mental health, and other categories, the company said in a blog post Friday. Read more.

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Seattle’s newest unicorn: Rec Room raises $100M as social gaming popularity fuels big growth

GeekWire

We are one of many, and we’re excited to add a consumer social company to that mix.” Year-over-year revenue growth of 566% was fueled in part by the pandemic and trends toward social gatherings online. Gaming company or social company? I think in a lot of ways gaming is the new social.”

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