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Do your colleagues know how much you earn?

Image copyright Getty Images Discussing pay at work can be a touchy subject.Whether it is the moment in a job interview when the topic of money is raised, or a request for an advance at the end of an expensive month, it is rarely a comfortable conversation.But for almost one in five workers, having a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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).…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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