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Twitter plans to double revenue by 2023, reach 2021-02-25 10:23:49Just ahead of its 2021 virtual investor day on Thursday, Twitter this morning announced its three long-term goals focused on user base and revenue gro

New Facebook ad campaign extols the benefits of 2021-02-25 09:00:36Online advertising can be a “pretty dry topic,” as Facebook’s head of brand marketing Andrew Stirk acknowledged, but with a new camp

After Facebook’s news flex, Australia passes bargaining code 2021-02-25 07:52:50A week after Facebook grabbed eyeballs globally by blocking news publishers and turning off news-sharing on its platform in Australia, the country&rsq

Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp face tougher rules in India 2021-02-25 04:41:44India announced sweeping rules to regulate social media firms, streaming services and digital news outlets on Thursday, posing new challenges for gian

YouTube to launch parental control features for families 2021-02-24 08:59:03YouTube announced this morning it will soon introduce a new experience designed for teens and tweens who are now too old for the schoolager-focused Yo

Daily Crunch: Facebook brings news sharing back to 2021-02-23 18:16:49The Facebook-Australia news battle seems to have reached an end, Android gets an update and Lucid Motors is going public via SPAC. This is your Daily

Quill, the messaging app backed by Index, quietly 2021-02-23 14:31:36Slack took the workplace communications landscape by storm after it launched its integration-friendly, GIF-tastic chat platform in 2013. Within the sp

Reddit ups Series E round by another $116 2021-02-23 14:17:40Reddit, which announced a $250 million Series E earlier this month, has added over $116 million to the financing event, upping the round’s most

Twitter relaunches test that asks users to revise 2021-02-23 10:20:51Twitter is running a new test that will ask users to pause and think before they tweet. According to the company’s announcement, when Twitter de

Maple launches with $3.5 million in funding to 2021-02-23 09:00:30Much of our daily lives have been transformed in one way or another by technology – and often through intentional efforts to innovate thanks to

Facebook to restore news sharing in Australia after 2021-02-23 00:57:37Facebook said it will begin restoring news sharing to Australian users’ feeds in “the coming days” after reaching an agreement with

Snack, where TikTok meets dating, gets $3.5 million 2021-02-22 10:00:18After online dating’s tremendous 2020 growth that culminated in last week’s epic Bumble IPO, a new entrant has tossed its hat into the dat

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Hackers break into far-right social network Gab, collect 2021-03-01 17:20:59Remember when archivists collected every post on the conservative social media platform Parler earlier this year? A similar thing just happened to ano

A bunch of juicy iPhone rumors just dropped 2021-03-01 15:41:15We've been waiting for Apple to jack up the iPhone's refresh rate for a while now. If the latest round of iPhone 13 rumors are to be believed, we wo

David Dobrik's photo app Dispo relaunched with an 2021-03-01 14:57:28David Dobrik's new photo app that reimagines the old way photography worked has launched a new version of the app with an ad that dresses the YouTube

You can customize almost anything on this laptop, 2021-03-01 14:51:11The consumer electronics company Framework makes products that are easily customized and repaired in an effort to reduce e-waste.  Read more...Mo

Seth Rogen launched a weed brand, and the 2021-03-01 14:41:21Seth Rogen announced the launch of his cannabis brand and the internet loved it so much, the site immediately went down.  The actor/filmmaker/sto

Taylor Swift and fans call out 'Ginny & 2021-03-01 12:47:59The crafty, scheming Ginny and Georgia may have finally met their match: Taylor Swift fans. The mother-daughter duo had more than enough problems to d

Netflix's 'Operation Varsity Blues' trailer is deliciously dramatic 2021-03-01 12:23:32 Operation Varsity Blues, otherwise known as the college admissions scandal of 2019, was one of the rare news stories to unite gobsmacked viewers as

'Maquette' is a sweet story about love and 2021-03-01 12:17:51Maquette is a story about a relationship that didn't work out, and the process of finding closure in an exploration of the memories left behindMaquet

'Raya and the Last Dragon' is a beautiful 2021-03-01 12:01:03It's a cliché at this point to say this movie or that hits different during a pandemic — but, well, sometimes clichés are clich&e

Light your way on late-night runs with a 2021-03-01 11:51:29TL;DR: Whether you're camping or just taking the trash out at night, the Liteband Activ 520 Headlamp can light up the way. As of March 1, get it for

Here's where you can get 'Super Mario 3D 2021-03-01 11:19:38SAVE $10.05: The three-game Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection is on sale at Walmart for just $49.94 as of March 1. (That's 17% off its $59.99 MSRP.

This gadget uses NASA-inspired technology to banish bad 2021-03-01 11:10:01TL;DR: Get rid of stinky smells for good with the VentiFresh ECO: Next Generation Odor Eliminator, on sale for $44.99 as of March 1 — a 37% savi

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How to Build an SEO Strategy for 2021 2021-02-12 07:00:00The E-Commerce Times discussed with Steve Wiideman, president and CEO of Wiideman Consulting Group, the essentials of how to build an SEO strategy for

Standing Out From the Crowd: Investor Selection Criteria 2021-02-10 09:14:00When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many investors began to hold their funds back and we're waiting to see how things unfold. But at the same time, crisi

E-Tailers Squandering a Fortune in 'NUMO' False Declines 2021-02-09 08:12:00Is your list of new business customers falling short due to issues with their rejected credit approvals? New User Missed Opportunity or "NUMO" is a

B2B Payments Industry Trends to Watch in 2021 2021-02-05 07:00:00At the start of 2020, it's doubtful that anyone would have guessed how much the pandemic would change almost everything. With that mindset, it almost

A New Era of Leadership on the Horizon 2021-02-03 17:16:46Amazon gets a new chief executive this summer. Jeff Bezos plans to step down from that role and transition into a new job -- executive chair of Amazon

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7 Reasons Why Quotes and Memes Work So 2021-02-18 21:08:41There are two types of people of people on social media – the marketers and the consumers (sellers and buyers). Quotes and memes are great for s

Moniece Slaughter claims she received death threats via 2021-02-18 15:31:08Reality TV star Moniece Slaughter claims to have gotten menacing calls from supposed members of Dr. Dre’s crew after publicly discussing his dat

First-of-its-kind study to infect young persons with Covid 2021-02-17 19:02:24A study that will expose healthy and young people to Covid-19 as part of initiatives to further comprehend the germ has been approved in the UK. Backe

University in Norway Throws Shade on the US 2021-02-17 11:00:53The University of Adger in Norway throws shade on the US as a reaction to a Superbowl ad by GM. Since the release of teasers up until days after the o

Salma Hayek says she’s still “traumatized” from her 2021-02-16 16:00:18In a podcast interview recently, Salma Hayek noted she ‘suffered’ while shooting the love scene in the 1995 feature Desperado. The movie s

Man built 11 speed bumps near home after 2021-02-15 15:58:00One man became so fed up with the noise from automobiles passing by his abode that he erected 11 speed bumps in the adjacent road. Nor Muhamad Roslam

4 Entrepreneurs Using Social Media to Inspire Others 2021-02-15 15:50:09Social media has greatly changed the way humans interact and stay in touch with one another. As most people are active in at least one social media pl

Reasons Why the Senate Acquitted Trump for Inciting 2021-02-15 11:00:18We need reasons why the Senate acquitted Trump for impeachment and we need these reasons NOW. The US watched the impeachment trials worriedly in their

Pirate skeletons unearthed off coast of Cape Cod 2021-02-12 12:57:22Six pirate skeletons have been found off the coast of Cape Cod in a shipwreck, investigators announced Friday. According to the Whydah Pirate Museum i

Twitter Commemorates History’s Most Inspiring People for Black 2021-02-12 11:00:48Black History Month would not be what it is without all the incredible and amazing people behind it. People of African descent have influenced all asp

Research Suggests the Pandemic Reading Surge Will Continue 2021-02-11 03:46:13The stay-at-home orders that swept the nation in March 2020 inspired many people to take up new hobbies, and delve more deeply into old hobbies. 

Caught On Tape: Lion Enters Hotel By Leaping 2021-02-10 19:35:31Disconcerting CCTV footage displays the moment a lion decided to check into Hotel Sarovar Portico Monday morning. Surveillance camera recording from t