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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

Xconomy

Nowadays, Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the world , with more than 2 billion monthly active users. In San Diego, this higher order of social networking becomes apparent. Yet somehow, the connections are richer and more meaningful when people come together offline and in-person.

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StockTwits Acquires Mobile App SparkFin to Add Fintech Services

Xconomy

StockTwits, the Twitter-like social media platform for sharing stock market tips and ideas, has acquired San Diego’s SparkFin, a fintech mobile app for discovering and sharing stocks and other investment ideas. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ian Rosen, a former MarketWatch general manager.

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City Staffers Share Innovation Insights at Smart Cities Accelerator

Xconomy

In San Francisco , grousing about the widely available scooters has spurred a social media backlash over “scooter-gedden,” with hashtags like #scootersbehavingbadly. The furor has erupted in San Diego as well, where the coastal community of Coronado has declared. In Dallas , Los Angeles , and Washington, D.C. ,

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Ford’s Autonomic Pairs With Alibaba Cloud On Mobility Hub for China

Xconomy

Ford—one of the automakers competing in China’s huge car market—is now making a bid to provide China’s leading software infrastructure hub dedicated to streamlining transportation by connecting cars and riders with mobility services.

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Facebook Touts Countermeasures to Election Hacking: Are They Enough?

Xconomy

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Social Web Startup Signs Deal with AP to Distribute Sports Scores

Xconomy

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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Cybersecurity Firm Illumio’s Alan Cohen on the Tech Backlash of 2017

Xconomy

Any year-end review of technology news must also include reports on Russian hacking of the 2016 election campaign, and the manipulation of social media channels to spread false and divisive political messages.