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- Plato, Greek philosopher.
Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft Back EU Hate Speech Rules
By Julia Fioretti and Foo Yun Chee. BRUSSELS- Facebook, Twitter,
Google' s YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of
conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe. As part
of the pledge agreed with the European Commission, the web giants will
review the majority of va...
7Commerce takes full stake in Stylight
7Commerce, the investment arm of media company ProSiebenSat.1, is
upping its stake in Munich-based fashion aggregator and discovery
startup Stylight, intending to acquire 100 per cent of the company by
July — pending regulatory approvals. Read More
Apple TV begins hiding apps from the charts if you have them installed
Apple rolled out a small but interesting change to its Apple TV App
Store Top Charts recently, which, for the first time, are now
personalized to the individual user. Instead of simply showing a list of
the Top Paid, Top Free and Top Grossing apps on the platform, the
charts are now hiding listings...
CoreOS launches Torus, a new open source distributed storage system
CoreOS today announced the launch of Torus, its latest open source
project. Just like CoreOS’s other projects, Torus is all about giving
startups and enterprises access to the same kind of technologies that
web-scale companies like Google already use internally. In the case of
Torus, that’s distrib...
Austin and Seattle: applications for the TC Pitch-Offs close on Friday
It’s time. The TC Pitch-offs are just a couple short weeks away, and
applications for the competition close on Friday. That means you have
only two days to get in on the action. Ten companies will be given 60
seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of judges, including TC editors
and local VCs. The...
Sheryl Sandberg: Peter Thiel will remain on the Facebook board
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, said today on
stage at Vox Media’s Code Conference that Peter Thiel would remain on
the company’s board of directors despite the controversy surrounding his
involvement in a lawsuit against Gawker. It was revealed that Thiel was
backing Hulk Hog...
Social Nature raises $1M to promote natural products with influencer marketing
We write about a lot of influencer marketing companies at TechCrunch,
but Social Nature has a unique focus — natural products. The company is
announcing it has raised $1 million in seed funding from investors,
including Shopify co-founder Scott Lake, the Pereira/Wharton family, the
founders of Pomm...
Tubular Labs raises $10 million to measure online videos across social platforms
Just how popular was that video of the mom laughing in her Chewbacca
mask? And how did that video stack up against the mermaid pillow
one that went viral in January? Are videos published by Last Week
Tonight watched more or shared more than videos published by The Late
Show with Stephen Colbert? Mo...
Crunch Report | Internet Trends Report 2016
Mary Meeker releases her annual internet trends report, sales force
acquires Demandware for 2.8 Billion Dollars, Google now lets both iOS
and Android users find their lost phones, Apple’s world wide developers
conference is going to be June 13th, Peter Thiel to remain on Facebook’s
board of director...
In defense of online lending
The marketplace industry will be just fine. It is uncertainty – rather
than a fundamental flaw in the business model – that is the root cause
of the sector’s present turmoil. There’s uncertainty over the platforms’
internal monitoring processes, over the veracity of loan data, over
shifts in loan r...
Xiaomi unveils the Mi Band 2, a Fitbit-like activity tracker for $23
Xiaomi just unveiled a brand new wearable device, the Mi Band 2.
Despite the name, it’s the company’s third fitness tracking device after
the Mi Band and Mi Band Pulse. It track your steps, monitors your heart
rate and (for the first time) features a tiny display. It costs RMB
149, or a little less...
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