Tag: media platforms

• World War II-Era Obstacle Is Curbing French Startup Diversity

  August 1, 2020

  The startup scene in France has the same problem that plagues the industry everywhere — too little diversity. Trouble is, in France you can’t measure it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/world-war-ii-era-obstacle-is-curbing-french-startup-diversity more ›

• The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy.

  August 1, 2020

  The Covid-19 pandemic crushed vast swaths of the economy, slashing consumer demand, closing businesses, and vaporizing millions of jobs. But it’s been good to the nascent sliver of the digital… more ›

• New White Paper on China’s Full-Spectrum Information Operations

  July 28, 2020

  Today the Stanford Internet Observatory published a joint white paper with the Hoover Institution examining China’s covert and overt capabilities in the context of modern information operations. https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/new-whitepaper-telling-chinas-story more ›

• Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook.

  July 28, 2020

  In Bangladesh, there is no Amazon. There is no eBay. If you want to buy a dress or a crested finch from the comfort of your home, you have to… more ›

• India, Jio, and the Four Internets

  July 26, 2020

  One of the more pernicious mistruths surrounding the debate about TikTok is that this will potentially lead to the splintering of the Internet; this completely erases the history of China’s… more ›

• Facebook is simulating users’ bad behavior using AI

  July 26, 2020

  Facebook’s engineers have developed a new method to help them identify and prevent harmful behavior like users spreading spam, scamming others, or buying and selling weapons and drugs. They can… more ›

• How Trello Grew From A Scrappy Startup Into A Powerhouse Brand

  July 25, 2020

  It all started with a sticky note. And a long to-do list. And two developers. And a dream to make people’s lives more organized and productive, wherever they worked and… more ›

• The 80 Best Single-Operator Newsletters on the Internet

  July 24, 2020

  In 1971, MIT grad and computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the world’s first official email. For a long time, these were email’s two primary functions: direct peer-to-peer messaging (your friend… more ›

• Connie Chan – projector phones

  July 19, 2020

  My phone suddenly feels very small. https://twitter.com/conniechan/status/1284610329721225216/video/1 more ›

• Microsoft’s new cloud-gaming service is more about the cloud than gaming

  July 19, 2020

  Microsoft is getting serious about cloud gaming. The Xbox maker will add its Project xCloud game-streaming service to its Game Pass Ultimate subscription tier in September, Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s head… more ›