The author criticizes Forbes for profiting from promoting and then reporting on fraudsters, such as Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, and Charlie Javice, who were all alumni of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list. The author also mentions a previous article about Sam Ovens, who was also a Forbes “30 Under 30”Continue Reading
While negotiating a $44 billion arrangement to procure Twitter, Elon Musk let financiers know that he would focus on cutting the organization’s bottom line. As reported by Bloomberg Musk talked about cutting both costs and jobs for the social network. In calls with bankers before the deal was reported, Musk answeredContinue Reading
“As part of our ongoing commitment to support creators, we’re beginning to test several new tools that will enable creators to experiment with different ways to monetize what they’re building in Horizon Worlds. While we’re launching this today as a test with a handful of creators to get their feedback,Continue Reading
YouTube Started As A Video Dating Site The founders (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim) registered the domain name on Valentine’s Day. They weren’t sure of the direction they wanted to take the site, but gave it the tagline “Tune In Hook Up.”, because of the date. According to CNET,Continue Reading
Since people are asking what the blue star on tinder means, we’re answering. Tinder has two features that use a blue star. Super Likes and Verified Profiles. We’re using Tinder’s official press images to illustrate, so we don’t out anyone’s matches. What Is The Tinder Blue Star: Super Like OnContinue Reading
Once known by everyone as Facebook, Meta is no longer among the top ten most valuable global companies. At market close Thursday, the social media colossus was worth about $565 billion. Back in September 2021, Meta was a trillion-dollar company ranking as the sixth-most valuable globally. According to Bloomberg, Meta currently ranks 11th.Continue Reading
According to Cloudflare, TikTok is now visited more than Google. Behind Google, are Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, and WhatsApp, according to the company. Here’s the full list of this year’s top 10 most popular domains: TikTok.com Google.com Facebook.com Microsoft.com Apple.com Amazon.com Netflix.com YouTube.com Twitter.com WhatsApp.com Back in September TikTok saidContinue Reading
Zoom announced that it has begun rolling out an advertising program for millions of Basic users who take advantage of the free video conferencing service. At least for now, ads will show only on the browser page that users see after a meeting ends. In Zoom’s announcement blog post, the companyContinue Reading
Two headlines caught my eye today, and sadly they are related. Meta (the faceless corp. once known as Facebook) took down a large troll farm on Facebook run by Nicaragua’s government. The tale of the troll farm plays out like I would have expected, from Facebook’s report, “We removed a networkContinue Reading
Facebook has been a busy little beaver this week. It’s just possible the social network, with 2.89 billion users, generated more headlines this week than Dave Chappelle’s extremely overly discussed three-week-old stand-up special. Here’s a bit of a round-up of some of the reason’s the social network made headlines thisContinue Reading