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EU, Meta agree to July stress test on EU online content rules

Meta and the European Union (EU) have agreed on a stress test in July on the EU's online content rules, following EU industry chief Thierry Breton's demand that the soc

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APD | Weekly top 10 hot news (Mar 11- Mar 17)

yearZuckerbergweekend Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a rundown of the latest hot news.This week the following hot news you should knowTop 1 Pakistan police

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Meta to lay off another 10,000 workers after initial cuts in November

ZuckerbergyearCEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday that the company will lay off another 10000 employees according to his blog post.It makes Meta the first Big Tech

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Donald Trump allowed back on Facebook and Instagram, Meta announces

Meta announced it is allowing former President Donald Trump back on Facebook and Instagram "in the coming weeks," ending a two-year suspension.Trump was locked out of h

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Salesforce to lay off 8,000 workers in latest tech purge

Business software maker Salesforce is laying off about 8,000 employees, or 10% of its workforce, as major technology companies continue to prune payrolls that rapidly e

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Russia slaps sanctions on U.S. and Canadian officials and figures

Russia on Thursday announced more entry bans on U.S. officials, including Vice President Kamala Harris and 28 other American officials, businesspeople and journalists.T

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Investment legend Peter Thiel to step down from Meta Platforms board

Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel will leave Facebook parent Meta's board, the firm said Monday, after a lengthy tenure that saw the network's rise and his voc

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Disney wants to become the happiest place in the metaverse

Mickey Mouse is poised to venture into the metaverse.Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek said the entertainment conglomerate is preparing to make the technological leap into a v

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TikTok and Snap alums launch mayk.it, a social music creation app, with $4M in seed funding

After living through the global upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers are re-evaluating their career path. Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, a former Head of Global Marketing at TikTok and Chief Ma

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Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems

Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has bu

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Panorama raises $60M in General Atlantic-led Series C to help schools better understand students

Panorama Education, which has built out a K-12 education software platform, has raised $60 million in a Series C round of funding led by General Atlantic.Existing backers Owl Ventures, Emerson Collect

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Facebook and Apple smart glasses will soon be upon us - but are they just another fad?

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg expects the social media giant's products will eventually see the company considered a "metaverse business" focused on helping people participate in the virtual world, while Apple's Tim Cook has hinted he sees augmented reality as the next big thing in tech.

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Move fast and break Facebook: A bull case for antitrust enforcement

This is the second post in a series on the Facebook monopoly. The first post explored how the U.S. Federal Trade Commission should define the Facebook monopoly. I am inspired by Cloudflare’s recent po

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Romanian marketing expert Robert Katai explains how to get the most out of your content

There’s a lot of advice out there on how to grab people’s attention, but there’s one aspect of marketing that Robert Katai thinks isn’t talked about as often: maintaining their

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A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation)

Disinformation, misinformation, infotainment, algowars — if the debates over the future of media the past few decades have meant anything, they’ve at least left a pungent imprint on the English langua

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

Facebook is a monopoly. Right?Mark Zuckerberg appeared on national TV today to make a “special announcement.” The timing could not be more curious: Today is the day Lina Khan’s FTC refiled its case to

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In growing battle with TikTok, Facebook to test ‘Facebook Reels’ in the U.S.

Reels are coming to Facebook in the U.S. The company this morning announced it will begin testing a new feature, Facebook Reels, which will give Facebook users the ability to create and share short-fo