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Cryptocurrency blockchain YouTube’s Crypto Xmas Purge is a Tactically Evil Powerplay
YouTube mass deletes cryptocurrency videos suddenly and without warning. Tactical timing over the Christmas holidays suggests the social media sought to minimize outrage and pushback. This could be a pre-emptive proxy attack by Google in its quest to make a move into the finance industry. While the world slept on Christmas Eve, the YouTube team…
Mark Zuckerberg decides to ditch new year personal challenge
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Last year was a tough one for Facebook with huge fines and more hearings in Washington for Mr Zuckerberg Traditionally, at the beginning of each year Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg takes on a personal challenge.These have ranged from learning Mandarin, to visiting every state in the US, to last year’s…
Cryptocurrency blockchain Universal Group, A New Chapter Starts From NASDAQ MarketSite
Dec 23, 2019 New York — Universal Group, a real estate blockchain platform, ran an advertising campaign on NASDAQ Tower in Time Square. The ad serves as a statement to Universal Group’s determination to expand into the U.S. market, following the listing of Unipay gold coin (UPG), an international tourism cryptocurrency substitute for the leisure…
What to expect in digital media in 2020
As we start 2020, the media and entertainment sectors are in flux. New technologies are enabling new types of content, streaming platforms in multiple content categories are spending billions in their fight for market share and the interplay between social platforms and media is a central topic of global political debate (to put it lightly).…
Cryptocurrency blockchain BiKi.com Launches Lending, Another Step to Becoming a Blockchain Financial Center
7th January, 2020, Singapore – Digital assets trading firm BiKi.com has been launching leverage and staking, amongst other financial products on its platform. The latest product on offering is digital asset lending, another strategic step the exchange is taking towards becoming a financial center in the blockchain industry. Mirroring elements of traditional finance where loans…
Will online privacy make a comeback in 2020?
Last year was a landmark for online privacy in many ways, with something of a consensus emerging that consumers deserve protection from the companies that sell their attention and behavior for profit. The debate now is largely around how to regulate platforms, not whether it needs to happen. The consensus among key legislators acknowledges that…
Cryptocurrency blockchain BiKi.com Makes First Foray into Latin America and UAE
16th December, 2019, Singapore – Continuing in its quest for the grail of globalization, digital assets trading platform BiKi.com is venturing into previously unbroached territories. 2019 has seen the young exchange expanding in Southeast Asia, Asia, the Western regions as well as Russia. It now makes its first foray into Latin America and the United…
Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users
China’s TikTok, which has taken the world by storm, is working its magic in its home nation, too. The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, has amassed 400 million daily active users, parent company ByteDance revealed in its annual report this week (in Chinese). This is an impressive growth for the addictive video app, which had…
Tech 2019: Our biggest technology stories
As 2019 splutters to a close, it’s time for our annual lookback at our most-read tech stories, and to ask: “What happened next?”.Facebook and its family of apps dominates this year’s list with four entries – it probably won’t be a surprise that none of them were particularly brand-enhancing. The Chinese viral video app TikTok…