We all love social networks, right? We’re practically addicted to them — as a matter of fact, if most of us would only spend as much time exercising as we browse social networks, our health problems would be gone. There’s a new social network in town calledSixRepsand it brings a whole new social networking aspect to fitness. Question is, would it make you move from your PC to the gym?...
Twitterhas long been regarded as a default news channel for breaking stories, featuring them well ahead of traditional news outlets. It’s also the place where you can get valuable content that you wouldn’t normally find such as people sharing first-hand real time accounts with photo and video. Indeed, this content often sets the mainstream news agenda, as the famous picture of theplane in the Hudson rivershowed, first uploaded to Twitpic....
Former US president Donald Trump’s familybusinesses are in jeopardy. His financialfuture is in flux. And the entire world’s waiting to see if he or one of his children will becharged with a crime soon. It’s safe to say he isn’t having his best week. And, of course, that means he’s filed a frivolous lawsuit to rile up and distract his base of sycophants from the reality of his unfolding legal situation....
The refrain that ran through the minds of every person watching Microsoft’s bigMango-coming-out-partythis past week, as the company finally took down the curtain and showed off the future of its nascent mobile platform, mimicked the immortal words of Tychus Findlay: ‘Hell, it’s about time.’ It might be hard to imagine, but Windows Phone 7 has been commercially available for less than a full calendar year, despite having been through enough intrigue and anti-hype for a life of twice that length....
Update (12PM CET, November 30, 2021):Updated to include the CMA’s decision. Meta, the corporate conqueror formerly known asFacebook, looks set to lose a chunk of its gargantuan empire. The UK’s competition regulator has ordered the company to sell GIF platform Giphyas the takeover “could harm social media users and UK advertisers.” We’ve directed#Facebookto sell Giphy after finding the takeover could reduce competition between social media platforms and increase Facebook’s already significant market power....
