Apple doesn’t care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That’s why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. They’re rendering their own subscription options unnecessary in exchange for a sliver of what Apple pays out from the mere $10 per month it charges for unlimited reading. The unfathomable platform risk here […]
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Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
On Wall Street’s leniency toward unprofitable tech companies and outsized exits.
View More Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t careFacebook bans thousands of pages, accounts, and groups linked to Russia and Iran for ‘inauthentic behavior’
Facebook just took down multiple misinformation campaigns linked to Russia and Iran.
On Tuesday, the social network announced it had removed 2,632 Facebook Pages, Groups and accounts that “engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior” on both Facebook and Instagram.
Most of the accounts removed by Facebook this time around were connected to Russia. But, the company says the majority of the accounts were removed for spam-related activity. In total, the social network removed 1,907 Russian-linked pages, groups and accounts. The “small portion” of accounts that were setup to spread misinformation mostly posted content related to political issues and conflicts in Ukraine. Around 1.7 million accounts were part of the 1,757 Facebook Groups that were removed. The company also took down 86 Pages and 64 Facebook accounts. Read more…
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View More Facebook bans thousands of pages, accounts, and groups linked to Russia and Iran for ‘inauthentic behavior’A French Muslim group is suing Facebook and YouTube for hosting the Christchurch shooting video
When that little white box on Facebook asks you, “What’s on your mind?”, could Facebook be responsible for what you have to say?
A group representing French Muslims is suing the French branches of Facebook and YouTube for hosting the video of the Chr…
Cross-border fintech startup Airwallex raises $100M at a valuation of over $1B
Australia-based Airwallex is the tech startup to enter the billion-dollar ‘unicorn club.’ The company announced today that it has closed a $100 million Series C round that values its business above $1 billion. Started in Melbourne in 2015 by four Chinese founders, Airwallex provides a service that lets companies manage cross-border revenue and financing in […]
View More Cross-border fintech startup Airwallex raises $100M at a valuation of over $1BAndroid users’ security and privacy at risk from shadowy ecosystem of pre-installed software, study warns
A large-scale independent study of pre-installed Android apps has cast a critical spotlight on the privacy and security risks that preloaded software poses to users of the Google developed mobile platform. The researchers behind the paper, which has been published in preliminary form ahead of a future presentation at the IEEE Symposium on Security and […]
View More Android users’ security and privacy at risk from shadowy ecosystem of pre-installed software, study warnsTelegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option — killing chat history
Telegram has added a feature that lets a user delete messages in one-to-one and/or group private chats, after the fact, and not only from their own inbox. The new ‘nuclear option’ delete feature allows a user to selectively delete their own messages and/or messages sent by any/all others in the chat. They don’t even have […]
View More Telegram adds ‘delete everywhere’ nuclear option — killing chat historyThe ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz was in high demand this week. As a prolific journalist at The Atlantic and about-to-be member of Harvard’s prestigious Nieman Fellowship for journalism, that’s perhaps not surprising. Nor was this the first time she’s had a bit of a moment: Lorenz has already served as an in-house expert on social media and the […]
View More The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor LorenzWhat’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and the other ad networks?
This post reveals the cost of acquiring a customer on every ad channel my agency has tested.
View More What’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and the other ad networks?Pinterest throws subtle shade at Facebook in IPO filing
Pinterest is not happy with Facebook.
The forgotten middle child of the social media family filed for an IPO on March 22, and in doing so the San Francisco-based company made a very public argument that its future is bright. That is, if Faceboo…
Daily Crunch: Facebook admits password security lapse
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of account passwords in plaintext Prompted by a report by cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs, […]
View More Daily Crunch: Facebook admits password security lapseWomen are still underrepresented in tech. Here’s what Facebook has to say about it.
How did we go from viewing computer programming as “women’s work” to peak tech bro culture? In the world of tech today, men greatly outnumber women, and the reasons for this inequality are to be found in stereotypes and biases deeply ingrained in our culture.
But some of the world’s biggest tech companies are taking steps to try and change the gender imbalance. We talked to Rachel Burton, HR Director for the EMEA Engineering teams at Facebook, to learn more about the company’s approach. Read more…
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