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Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major…
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Former Facebook manager says company is ‘failing’ its black employees and users
Facebook, like pretty much every other Silicon Valley company, still struggles to hire, retain, and include diverse employees — earlier…
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‘The problem is Facebook,’ lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerberg’s accountability stand-in
A grand committee of international parliamentarians empty-chaired Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing earlier today, after the Facebook founder snubbed repeat invitations…
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Watch: Facebook’s Richard Allan fields questions from 9 countries at U.K. Parliament hearing
Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy, is answering questions posed by lawmakers from Britain, Canada, France, Belgium, Brazil,…
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LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook
LinkedIn, the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users, has been called out a number…
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Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the international ‘fake news’ grilling that Zuckerberg won’t
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions…
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Google lays outs narrow “EU election advertiser” policy ahead of 2019 vote
Google has announced its plan for combating election interference in the European Union, ahead of elections next May when up…
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LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting
A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be…
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Facebook has poached the DoJ’s Silicon Valley antitrust chief
Facebook has recruited Kate Patchen, a veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who led its antitrust office in Silicon…
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Why chatbot surveys are taking over
The way to really know what your customer wants, needs, or even would like you to stop doing, is to…
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