MTV’s “Diary of Facebook” documentary to air this Wednesday

MTV recently paid Facebook’s company headquarters a visit, following the lives of two young Facebook employees for its latest documentary titled “Diary of Facebook“. As opposed to merely charting the life of Mark Zuckerberg, for the first time, we’ll get an inside look at Facebook’s culture, including its famous “hack-a-thon,” a 24-hour, no-code-barred event, following Pedram, a technical engineer. The documentary then follows Erin, a marketing associate working on Stories.Facebook.com, which are a series of users’ “life-changing”, social-networking stories....

2 min · 232 words · Jessica Johnson

Multiply 5.0 e-commerce platform being tested in Indonesia

What started as a social networking platform for photo and video sharing has evolved into a social shopping site that connects the sellers in a virtual world with eager spenders. Multiply 5.0, the photo-sharing social network turned robust e-commerce platform, is currently in the works and is being tested in Indonesia. The beta version of Multiply 5.0 is initially available atIndonesia.multiply.comand according to theMultiply blog, the new platform will integrate an e-commerce catalog store, shopping cart and payment system designed to simplify the process not only for buyers but inventory and order management for sellers as well....

2 min · 261 words · Ashlee Carter

Mumbai wants India’s EV crown — and it’s buying 1,900 buses to prove it

Did you know SHIFT istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of mobility during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! Mumbai, the western city of India, has put out a tender to purchase 1,900 EV buses that will add to its existing fleet of 386. With this, the financial capital of India aims to become the biggest proponent of sustainable public transport....

2 min · 419 words · Benjamin Patel

Munch On Me is a deals site that makes merchants drool

The idea of yet another daily deals site is enough to cause a rumble of indigestion. Y Combinator startupMunch On Meoffers more than a glimmer of hope to merchants and diners who are suffering from daily deals fatigue. With Munch On Me, restaurants choose the menu item they want to discount and the price, and diners simply read a confirmation code off their phone to get their discounted food. But what really sets Munch On Me apart is that 75 percent of the time, diners will stay and order more food off the regularly-priced menu, according to CEO and co-founder Jason Wang....

5 min · 897 words · Gregory Sweeney

Murdoch Alert: The browser extension that warns you of News Corporation websites

With Murdoch and his media empire gaining more enemies by the day, one enterprising developer has created an add-on for the Firefox browser calledMurdoch Alert. Released yesterday, the Firefox extension warns users whenever they land on one of the 100+ websites owned by Rupert Murdoch’s corporation. The notes for the add-on state: “NewsCorp agents in multiple countries have been arrested for hacking into the phones and computers of at least thousands of innocent people....

2 min · 389 words · Robert Best
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