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This startup wants to create a merchandising and banking cryptoeconomy
2018-04-30

Last year ecommerce sales tallied $2.3 trillion worldwide with revenues tipped to grow to $4.88 trillion by 2021. The market is only growing but it is still fraught with issues like certain marketplaces having too much dominance and high transaction fees, which all work against smaller retailers and companies....

Huawei’s plans for an Android alternative are crazy, but necessary
2018-04-30

Huawei’s had a terrible time dealing with the US in 2018, and things are said to have gotten a whole lot worse last week, when the Department of Justice reportedly began investigating the Chinese telecom and hardware giant for allegedly having violated the country’s sanctions against Iran. That could see it being...

Facebook rolls out its downvote button to more users
2018-04-29

Earlier this year, Facebook confirmed it was trialling Reddit-style upvote and downvote buttons on public posts, with the aim of improving the quality of discourse on the platform. Now, it appears the feature is rolling out to a greater number of users. Hmmmm. Not sure I like the Upvote and Downvote feature of...

Facebook is dropping key advertising tools — here’s how you adapt
2018-04-29

If you listen to headlines about Facebook recently you may be wondering if it’s still a good place to run ads for your business.  The Facebook privacy scandal that brought a ton negative press over the last month (and justly so), has already forced Facebook to change the way they handle and collect consumer...

Britain’s mass surveillance regime is directly opposing human rights
2018-04-29

  In light of the Facebook data scandal, more people are beginning to challenge the web’s pervasive surveillance culture. But few British citizens seem to be aware of the government’s own online surveillance regime – significant parts of which have been deemed unlawful. The UK government broke EU law under the...

Taking Responsibility Isn’t Just a Trend, It’s Key to Being a Successful Entrepreneur
2018-04-28

Mark Zuckerberg has been immensely successful in capturing the popular imagination of budding and aspiring entrepreneurs around the world. Mr. Zuckerberg has become the quintessential image of what a successful entrepreneur can accomplish. The stories about the dreary Harvard dorm room coding sessions to his now...

Cambridge Analytica might finally make Brussels care about data privacy
2018-04-28

It was inevitable. One by one, they all lined up to demand that Mark Zuckerberg come to Brussels to explain himself, or, more accurately, explain what the hell Facebook has been doing with our data. Europe’s political parties have been collectively outraged at reports that Facebook “allowed” private data into...

In these dark times, Yeezy Dating is what every Kanye fan needs
2018-04-28

On April 13th, for better or worse, someone gave Kanye West his Twitter password back. What followed was a tweet storm of epic proportions, consisting of cryptic rants interrupted by the occasional fashion photo. It included him backing conservative, and accused far-right, figures — as well as his buddy Trump. Why,...

Studies show Google Assistant is still miles ahead of Alexa and Siri
2018-04-27

If you’re lucky enough to have more than one smart assistant in your life, the results of two studies this week probably won’t come as much of a surprise to you. For everyone else: just buy a device with Google Assistant already. The studies: This week we saw not one, but two studies detailing Google’s dominance...

7 lesser-known Google Analytics features your brand should be using
2018-04-27

Are you using the right tools for the job? Any good mechanic has a large, well-stocked tool cabinet at their disposal, filled with the wrenches, sockets and various more specialized tools that they need for any job. You have a tool cabinet at your disposal too, and it’s called Google Analytics. As every good...

Facebook gets rid of the most annoying part of its fundraising feature
2018-04-27

Facebook is getting rid of one of the most frustrating features of its fundraising platform: the 4.3% fees they tacked onto transactions in the U.S. and 6.2% in Canada. As TechCrunch reports, Facebook used those fees to cover a review and vetting process for each fundraiser, but the company finally realized that...

Inclusivity And Wellness Take Center Stage At Beautycon NYC
2018-04-27

Beautycon invaded NYC last weekend for two days of brand activations and panels that focused on mental wellbeing and diversity within the makeup industry. Beauty fanatics descended on the Javits Center in New York City last weekend for the annual beauty festival Beautycon–think Coachella, but with Instagram and...

MIT researchers program water droplets to move and merge on command
2018-04-27

Screens are all around us and are immensely useful in conveying information – but they can overwhelm us and take up more of our attention than we can afford. That’s why MIT Media Lab researcher Udayan Umapathi began work on a calm interface that had a closer connection to the physical elements around us – using...

Microsoft joins the water pistol brigade with new emoji
2018-04-27

One day after Google announced it was changing its revolver emoji into a water pistol — which left Microsoft as the last one carrying an actual gun — Microsoft decided to join the rest of the tech crowd by making the same change. And its water gun might just be the best one yet. Here’s what’s new: Microsoft...

Wake Up, Mr. West. Brands Like Adidas Are Going To Ditch Kanye Soon
2018-04-27

The latest pro-Trump tweets from Kanye should send a clear message to the apparel company and artists linked to him that it’s time to part ways. Since Kanye West broke his Twitter hiatus this month, he’s been doubling down on his pro-Trump rhetoric that began to surface back in November 2016. What...

The unusual way police caught the Golden State Killer suspect
2018-04-27

Police reportedly used data from GEDMatch, a genealogy research site where users upload genealogical and genetic information, to help identify the man suspected of being the notorious Golden State Killer. That site, which provides tools for people to conduct their own searches against uploaded data, said in a...

North and South Korea relations: a timeline of how we got here
2018-04-27

North Korea and South Korea have announced plans to end the peninsula’s seven-decade war. The historic summit came in the wake of an unlikely series of events including missile testing; Twitter threats by the U.S. president; a unified display at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang; and finally, a sit-down between...

Here’s How Facebook Can Regain Trust At Its F8 Conference
2018-04-27

Facebook still has many questions to answer in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote is the perfect place to start. Next Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage to give his annual opening keynote address at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. In the wake of...

How Google’s Waze crowdsourced traffic data to save lives across Europe
2018-04-27

Google’s Waze crowdsourced navigation service just announced its findings from its year-long partnership with the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) at the organization’s conference in Slovenia. The project started last April and piloted the use of Waze’s user-generated data to improve emergency...

There is no consensus in the cryptocurrency community when it comes to journalistic standards
2018-04-27

  The Ethereum community is furious after Coindesk, a major cryptocurrency publication, published an article on the controversial Ethereum proposal, EIP999. Coindesk reported that the proposal has caused infighting among the Ethereum community and it might lead to a blockchain split soon. This did not go well with...

How Sweetgreen Helped This Corner Store With A Healthy Transformation
2018-04-27

The salad chain offered some of its expertise in branding and supply chains to help a store in a food desert bring healthier options to its customers. The designers and supply chain experts at Sweetgreen, the L.A.-based salad chain, usually spend their time working on the look and operations of their own stores. But...

Microsoft kills its gun emoji
2018-04-27

The software giant has finally followed in the footsteps of Apple, Google, Twitter, and Samsung by replacing its pistol emoji with a green and yellow water gun emoji. The pistol emoji had drawn criticism in the last several years with school shootings happening on a regular basis and social media rife with...

April’s Top Leadership Stories Include Feminist High Heels and EQ
2018-04-27

This month’s top stories look at how to craft an emotionally intelligent presentation, and how women are reinventing the high heel. This month, we learned that recruiters spend more time on other social media platforms than they do on your LinkedIn profile, how some women are reinventing the high heel to allow...

Why running a Medium column will do more for your company than a traditional blog
2018-04-27

Most businesses have their own blog since they want to boost their SEO, build authority and trust, and engage with their consumers. Blogging is no longer just a way to share opinions and ideas or keep cross-country relatives up-to-date; it’s a business and marketing tool that helps companies build their brand and...

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