Social Media How Making Social Media a Centerpiece of Experiences Can Create Lasting Value for Consumers Tech|… Sep 11, 2018 Not so long ago, experiential marketers and their brand clients were keen to throw around the term “Instagram moment” during the strategic planning…
Social Media WhatsApp hits India’s Jio feature phones amidst fake news violence | Social Sep 11, 2018 False rumors forwarded on WhatsApp have led angry mobs to murder strangers in India, but the Facebook-owned chat app is still racing to add users in…
Social Media ‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else | Social Sep 10, 2018 A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments to demand…
Social Media Three former Social Capital partners are reportedly raising a $200M fund | Social Sep 10, 2018 Tribe Capital, the venture capital firm launched by Arjun Sethi, Jonathan Hsu and Ted Maidenberg, a trio of former Social Capital partners, is…
Social Media Instead of Larry Page, Google sends written testimony to tech’s Senate hearing | Social Sep 10, 2018 Silicon Valley is about to have another big moment before Congress. On Wednesday, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg will go…
Social Media Twitter agrees to abuse-transparency reports, civil rights audit Sep 10, 2018 A meek and quiet “no” was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s refrain as he responded to an onslaught of questions from House Energy Committee Republicans about…
Social Media Facebook sues BlackBerry over patent infringement of voice-messaging tech | Social Sep 10, 2018 Facebook has accused BlackBerry of stealing its voice-messaging technology in its instant messaging app. In an 118-page complaint filed Tuesday…
Social Media Google rebuked by Senate Intelligence Committee for not sending Page or Pichai to testify | Social Sep 10, 2018 Alphabet’s decision to decline to send its CEO Larry Page to today’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing — to answer questions about what social…
Social Media Facebook users becoming more cautious and critical, says Pew | Social Sep 10, 2018 Ahead of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg testifying before Congress later today, where she will be questioned alongside Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as US…
Social Media Dating app Bumble says buzz off to Facebook, plans Hive space expansion next year | Social Sep 10, 2018 Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and CEO of social and dating app Bumble, said today that Facebook’s move into dating is a “huge validation, the best…