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Sean Parker’s govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers
Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and…
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Facebook warned over privacy risks of merging messaging platforms
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has asked the company for an “urgent briefing” regarding plans to integrate the…
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Leaked TikTok ad deck suggests it has 17M+ MAUs in Europe
An advertising pitch deck used by fast-growing short form video sharing app TikTok has leaked, providing a snapshot of usage in…
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Sapphire Ventures launches $115 million sports tech fund with big-name backers
Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm Sapphire Ventures has formally launched a new $115 million fund focused on sports technology…
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Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit
Tinder recently agreed to settle a $23 million class-action age discrimination lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed last April in California, alleged…
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Just 1% of Twitter users exposed to 80% of fake news during the 2016 U.S. election
Just a small percentage of Twitter users were responsible for sharing fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a…
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SoundCloud co-founder and chief product officer, Eric Wahlforss, is leaving
SoundCloud’s Eric Wahlforss is stepping away from the music and podcast streaming platform he co-founded after more than a decade at…
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WhatsApp Business brings quick replies, labels, and chat list filtering to desktop and the web
WhatsApp has announced that the business-focused version of its messaging service, WhatsApp Business, is now actively used by 5 million…
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Twitter testing ‘Original Tweeter’ tag to distinguish who started a thread
Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread. The new feature,…
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Google will bring political ad transparency tools to India ahead of general elections
Google is joining Facebook in bringing greater transparency to its political advertising tools in India as the world’s largest democracy…
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