by Admin | Dec 6, 2017 | News, Social Media, Technology
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced in a December 4 blog post that the platform is going to bring aboard about 10,000 reviewers in 2018. Their job will be to screen YouTube videos and assist the company’s machine learning algorithms to more accurately find troubling...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2017 | News, Social Media
A group of British Parliament members has asked Facebook to provide information on any ads bought by Russia-linked Facebook accounts around important votes. Damian Collins, chair of the House of Commons Select Committee for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, has...
by Admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Companies, News, Social Media
It’s a match made in social app heaven. Snapchat users will now be able to use the popular social media app to book a ride through Uber or Lyft. Users will also be able to book restaurant reservations to establishments featured on the app. This is courtesy of a new...
by Admin | Oct 2, 2017 | News, Social Media
Tech giants Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been called to testify before Congress about how their platforms may have been used to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. This has experts wondering: how much, if any, culpability do these companies have when...
by Admin | Sep 11, 2017 | News, Social Media
Last week, Facebook found itself under scrutiny for potentially inflating the size of its ad reach to advertisers. According to Brien Wieser, an analyst with Pivotal Research Group, Facebook claimed that its ads can reach millions more young adults in the U.S. than...
by Admin | Jul 14, 2017 | Companies, News, Social Media
When Snap, the parent company of social app Snapchat, made its IPO on March 2, it had a banner day. When the stock market opened, Snap shares were already trading higher than their IPO price of $17 per share. It closed the day at $24.48 per share and made its founders...
