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...On Tuesday, a man with the moniker “Ukraine solider” [sic] posted a live video on TikTok shot from a window showing blocks of flats in the blazing sun, sirens wailing in the background....
...Its opening tournament was screened free-of-charge live on YouTube and Facebook....
...The events attracted 21.8m views on digital platforms, including Twitch and Facebook....
...According to Samuel Woolley, a professor at the University of Texas Austin’s school of journalism, TikTok’s relative inexperience in the field and more limited resources also put it at a disadvantage....
...Lauren Kunis, programme director of National Voter Registration Day, said she expected the campaign to register a record number of people this year thanks to backing from companies including Facebook and...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 16, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“For a long time, people wanted to live in New York, but they felt the jobs weren’t here,” says Julie Samuels, executive director of the nonprofit Tech:NYC, which represents the city’s technology industry...
...Sic transit gloria. John Plender is an FT columnist...
...The plan has sparked opposition among some consumer advocacy groups and tech companies such as Google and Facebook....
...But some defended the app, with Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist who sits on Facebook’s board, tweeting: “there’s a fascinating aspect lots of people are missing”....
...“There would have been tens of millions of people online, on Facebook, Twitter....
...Facebook’s “Move fast and break things” motto is the corporate equivalent of Samuel Beckett’s dark attempt at hope: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”...
...Stratfor played down the incident on Tuesday, saying on its Facebook site that this was not a list of companies with which it had relationships, but merely a record of those that had bought the company’s...
...“It happens a lot via Facebook pages,” he explains. “It’s like: ‘Hey, we are going to bring down your pages’, and you have an answer like: ‘Bring it on’.”...
...From the heights of his position as Facebook’s founder and chief executive, he decrees: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity” (from The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick...
...I used to think Mark Zuckerberg’s achievement with Facebook was a fabulous inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere. Now I’m not so sure....
...Its clean-tech exits so far include Agri.capital, a biogas power producer, and SiC Processing, a silicon waste recovery company. But most investors admit that the clean-tech journey has not been easy....
...Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”....
...We tried on a myriad of dresses and outfits, and I had b.o. [sic] by the end of it from wrestling with all of those dresses.”...
...In addition to not participating in political gatherings, the policy states that employees “must not advocate for political or other polarising issues online …including your Facebook page or a personal blog...
...be drearily familiar, writes the FT’s Sir Samuel....
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