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A look back at how Facebook and Twitter evolved over the 2010s, chasing size and influence at a cost to society that will take years to understand — The two companies had a bad run in the 2010s. It was their own fault. — It's been a rough decade for Facebook and Twitter.| Kate Cox / Ars Technica: |
A retrospective on Facebook's past decade, during which it grew to 2.45B users to become a major facet of life worldwide and wound up in regulatory crosshairs — Facebook grew 600% in 10 years, worming its way into basically everything. How? — By the end of 2009, Facebook …
Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica
| Shunsuke Tabeta / Nikkei Asian Review: |
China launches two more satellites for BeiDou, its GPS competitor, says it will be fully complete in June, with centimeters-level accuracy by the end of 2020 — 70% of Chinese smartphones now compatible with Beidou — BEIJING — China announced Friday that it is just months away …
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| David Porter / 8tracks blog: |
As 8tracks prepares to shut down on December 31, its co-founder shares a post-mortem of what went wrong with the once-promising music streaming startup — 8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We're sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind …
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| George P. Slefo / Ad Age: |
Spotify will suspend political ads in early 2020, citing the lack of tools to review them; source: political ads are not a significant source of its revenue — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and the RNC are among Spotify advertisers — Spotify is suspending the sale of political advertising …
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| Allyson McCabe / Wired: |
As labels increasingly rely on streaming data to scout talent, they could become less willing to sign artists whose music isn't engineered to maximize profit — The explosion of metrics and algorithms isn't just reflecting what's happening in the music industry. It's transforming it.| Zachery Eanes / Raleigh News & Observer: |
Profile of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, including the development of Fortnite, why he chose North Carolina as a base, and his ambitious land conservation efforts — The News & Observer's Tar Heel of the Year — The News & Observer recognizes North Carolina residents who have made significant contributions …
Tweets: @will_doran, @newsycombinator, and @newsobserver
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Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 grew 18.8% YoY, for a 14.6% share of the total retail sales during the period — (Reuters) - U.S. shoppers spent more online during this year's holiday shopping season, a report by Mastercard Inc (MA.N) … | Constance Grady / Vox: |
With print books often cheaper than ebooks, whose sales stabilized at ~20% of total book sales, a look at the aftermath of Apple's ebook price fixing lawsuit — Publishing spent the 2010s fighting tooth and nail against ebooks. There were unintended consequences.| Alexander Lee / Washington Post: |
Tuvalu, a tiny island nation with the .tv TLD, has been cashing in on domain sales to Twitch and others, representing ~8% of the island's gross national income — In 1995, Stephen Boland sat in his government office while working as the macroeconomic planner for the Pacific microstate of Tuvalu when the fax machine whirred to life.
Tweets: @yancyeaton, @brianstelter, @atossaaraxia, and @islandsinnovate
| William Suberg / Cointelegraph: |
BitMEX Research report: of 12 big initial exchange offerings in 2019, 11 are almost worthless compared to the price their tokens first traded for on exchanges — Initial exchange offerings (IEOs), which launched in 2019 have lost investors up to 98% of their money, damning new statistics show.| Emma Lee / TechNode: |
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