Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

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.

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 6, 2018

The browser-based softphone leverages open source Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology that can be used alone or along with IP phones, softphones, and the Telzio mobile app.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium initially focused on helping corporations, government agencies, and other “enterprise” customers to manage “tags,” the snippets of JavaScript embedded in Web pages or e-mails. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2016

And if you’re paying attention, you’ll understand that this is their third push for native media consumption: first photos, then videos, and now written content. Nick Denton (@nicknotned) March 1, 2016. If you think about our behavior on AOL in the early to mid 90’s, people never really left AOL to go on the world-wide-web.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have been concerned about the social media giant’s slowing growth rate in a year when it has been under scrutiny for data privacy violations and its role in the spread of false and divisive messages by fake user accounts traced to Russian agents during U.S. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This is only one of the ways social media and other technologies are changing the experience of forming our views on election issues and choosing our candidates. The items are chosen based on their social media rankings among “political influencers” from both the conservative and liberal camps.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. But it’s not so, at least when it comes to certain issues. And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The link-in-bio business is heating up as more mobile website builders compete for a coveted slice of real estate on a creator’s TikTok, Instagram or Twitter. Linktree has been around since 2016 and has more funding than its up-and-coming competitors. Now, Snipfeed enters the ring with its own $5.5

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next Wednesday.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Digital marketing is the cost-effective place to start, utilizing the internet, mobile phones, display advertising, and other digital mediums. It is search engines, web content, blogs, social media, e-mail direct, on one of many mobile-phone approaches? Encourage ongoing social media customer conversations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

Bloomberg reports that forty-nine percent more companies went public in 2017 versus 2016. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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