What can VPN do for you?
Have you ever wondered what is a VPN and whether you need one? If you have ever connected to a public Wi-Fi network, you likely have had a question in your head: “What if somebody & somewhere is screening my online activity”? And it’s not that you do something illegal, you simply don’t want other […]
WhatsApp Business, now with 50m MAUs, adds QR codes and catalog sharing
Source: TechCrunch.com The global COVID-19 health pandemic has raised the stakes for businesses when it comes to using digital channels to connect with customers, and today WhatsApp unveiled its latest tools to help businesses use its platform to do just that. The Facebook-owned messaging behemoth is expanding the reach and use of QR codes to […]
Instagram’s latest test puts all Stories on one page
Source: TechCrunch.com Instagram Stories has grown to become one of Facebook’s best products to date. As of last year, roughly half of Instagram’s users — or 500 million people — were interacting with Stories on a daily basis. That’s nearly double the entire daily active user base of all of Snapchat, which first popularized the […]
India approves Facebook’s $5.7 billion deal with Reliance Jio Platforms
India’s antitrust watchdog has given its blessing to Facebook and Reliance Jio Platforms for their $5.7 billion deal. In a statement on Wednesday, the Competition Commission of India said it had approved Facebook’s proposed multi-billion-dollar investment in Jio Platforms for a 9.99% stake in the top Indian telecom network. Jaadhu Holdings LLC, a wholly owned […]
watchOS 7’s ‘Face Sharing’ feature can help custom watch faces go viral
Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference this morning announced a much-requested feature for Apple Watch: the ability to customize and share third-party watch faces with others. There are now over 20,000 Watch apps available on the Apple Watch App Store, but what has been missing was the ability to fully use all the data from […]
Capsule’s video Q&A platform helps brands reach their community in the post-COVID era
A new startup called Capsule has launched a new way for brands to create original video content with their community in the form of Q&As. But unlike a simple Instagram story’s Q&A session, Capsule provides a full platform for designing the Q&A session, branding the content, curating the responses from users and tracking the resulting […]
Land O’Lakes CEO Beth Ford on Racism in Minneapolis, COVID-19’s Impact on Farmers, And The Need For Rural Wi-Fi
(Miss this week’s The Leadership Brief? This interview below was delivered to the inbox of Leadership Brief subscribers on Sunday morning, June 21; to receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEO’s and business decision makers, click here.) Land O’Lakes’s headquarters are a short drive from the Minneapolis neighborhood where George Floyd was […]
Have we become too reliant on Big Tech firms?
Image copyright Keith Ingram Image caption During lockdown Keith Ingram shifted sales to Amazon “We wouldn’t have survived without Amazon,” says Keith Ingram, owner of vinyl records shop Assai Records.When lockdown hit on 23 March in the UK, Mr Ingram had to shut his shops in Edinburgh and Dundee, and sell his stock through Amazon […]
TIME and Columbia Business School Partner to Launch a Series of Business Classes for Professional Development During Uncertain Economic Times
“The Business of Change” classes are offered on-demand and at an affordable price point, empowering individuals to expand their skill set and facilitate their own success. Support from Deluxe is helping to make this world-class education series accessible to a broader audience, including its own community of small business owners and entrepreneurs (June 18, 2020 […]
Former Facebook exec thinks big tech will get broken up “over the next 10 years”
Investor Chamath Palihapitiya made part of his fortune at Facebook, where he was a vice president for more than four years, leaving one year before its 2012 IPO. Though he has voiced concerns numerous times since about his former employer, he also believes it has played an active role in enabling users to report and […]