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...And there are aggrieved yelps across the digital world from creators who know that massively profitable sites are built by scraping the internet for their original work....
...Ja Rule shouted at the crowd of frat boy lookalikes. Downstairs, catering staff cleared away steaming, stainless-steel troughs of sliders and onion rings....
...Like others, Telnova has now opened a page on the Russian domestic platform VKontakte, a Facebook lookalike that recently came under state control....
...In this, the Facebook lookalike’s trajectory has mirrored that of the Russian internet as a whole — from the freewheeling Ru-net of the 2000s to what is increasingly being dubbed sovereign-net by local media...
...Their campaign is a reminder of how virtual romance was conducted in the pre-internet era: by such quaint means as handwritten letters popped into red postboxes, followed up by dirty talk from a phone box...
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...Amazon has at least three Chinese lookalikes, the most famous of which is Alibaba (bell rings). If you hail a ride in China, you won’t be stepping into an Uber but probably into a Didi instead (ping)....
...Almost every site on the internet has a Facebook pixel installed, which tracks everything you do and shares it with Facebook....
...Related links: Someone is wrong on the internet - FT Alphaville...
...Tiger Global’s search for Amazon lookalikes began in China in 2003. On a trip following the Sars viral outbreak, Shleifer struck rapid fire deals in three ecommerce companies, Alibaba, eLong and Joyo....
...- FT Alphaville PayPal is shilling crypto on the internet - FT Alphaville People are freaking out about Tether - FT Alphaville...
...For example, Facebook allows marketers to upload their own email lists and search for “lookalike audiences”....
...Perhaps we’re searching for something authentic in lookalike corporatised cities, or for a human touch in an anonymous online world....
...A couple of weeks ago we flagged how Tether’s ballooning issuance of dollar-lookalike crypto liabilities was fueling internet speculation that much of Bitcoin’s recent rally could be related to these tokens...
...Facebook has made several failed attempts with new services designed to be “Snapchat killers”, though it recently claimed more success in emulating Snap’s Stories feature with a lookalike service on its...
...That was true, for example, for both the combination of 58.com and Gangi and Uber lookalikes Didi and Kuadi....
...Now one of the LSE’s competitors, Bats Europe, is having a crack at the index business by launching its own lookalike benchmarks....
...Facebook’s Periscope lookalike is live Facebook is opening its Live feature to all iPhone users in the U.S....
...Twitter is the latest company to fall victim to the ease and speed at which fake information can travel around the internet — spread either by those seeking a quick financial gain or pranksters....
...“There used to be 1,000 Groupon lookalikes in China,” said Neil Shen, who runs Sequoia’s China business. “But now Meituan and Dianping have about 70 per cent market share....
...In a world of Mark Zuckerberg-lookalikes in their 20s and 30s, London-based Ms Noble is a woman approaching her 55th birthday....
...• . . . in retail, your biggest competitor is the internet....
...Jack Ma, chairman of Chinese ecommerce group Alibaba, said imitation consumer goods continued to be a problem in the country – and blamed “greedy” consumers who were willing to buy fake $4 Rolexes on the internet...
...Mr Lent asserts that thanks to everything from the internet to 3D printing to micropayment systems, entrepreneurs are leading a start-up revolution, while small, independent initiatives and campaigns are...
...Facebook is deepening its ability to target adverts at its almost 1.3bn users by deploying tracking data that shows the sites they visit across the internet....
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