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3 reasons why a 'live personality' can take your brand from drab to fab
The concept of “going live” in the business world has been steadily picking up steam for a few years now. The implementation ...
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Spotify is expanding in the Middle East, with its UAE launch this year
Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service is expanding to MENA with its UAE launch planned for Q4 this year, a source close to the development told MENAbytes. The Swedish company that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange in a direct listing, which is different ...
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Klout was awful and I'm glad it's dead
Klout is dead. On May 25, the plug will finally be pulled on social media's reputation watchdog. No more will it rank "social media gurus," "influencers," and other assorted nebulous gobshites by a criteria that was arbitrary and didn't make sense. Klout scores, once carefully ...
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28 helpful Slack communities you should join as a UX designer
Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still ...
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Reddit's designers and users aren't seeing eye-to-eye over site's new look
It's hard to believe Reddit is over ten years old, but the design does admittedly show its age. So the site's designers are ...
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Twitter warns users to change passwords after accidentally 'unmasking' them in an internal log [Update]
Just minutes ago, Twitter's official support channel posted a tweet stating that users may want to change their passwords as a precautionary measure. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/992132808192634881?s=19 The tweet didn't dive into much detail, but a blog post that ...
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There's a logical explanation for @KanyeWest: Parallel universes
No, Kanye isn't going on Infowars. But you thought it was possible right? That's because the real @KanyeWest has been replaced ...
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Dogged by Facebook scandal, Cambridge Analytica closes its doors
After becoming the center of a scandal that led to a federal inquiry, Cambridge Analytica and its UK counterpart SCL Elections are closing and filing for bankruptcy. Employees received word today the company was closing, effective immediately. Cambridge Analytica and its UK counterpart ...
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This Egyptian matchmaking app is made for the conservative Arab world
Egyptian matchmaking startup Harmonica has raised $150,000 from the 23rd batch of the Silicon Valley global accelerator, ...
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Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher Aleksandr Kogan
Twitter also sold data to Cambridge Analytica researcher Aleksandr Kogan, joining Facebook as yet another tech company responsible ...
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In these dark times, Yeezy Dating is what every Kanye fan needs
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 ...
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Cambridge Analytica might finally make Brussels care about data privacy
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 ...
