2019-7-9 10:30 |
South American social networking giant Taringa! has partnered with MakerDAO and Airtm to launch a stablecoin-powered points system for its 27 million strong user base
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In a previous article we discussed the increasing movement of social media juggernauts towards blockchain technology including Twitter and recently Facebook too. During the weekend a social media giant in South America, Taringa! – Facebook-esque network – announced their plans to introduce cryptocurrencies on their platform in a bid to reinvent itself. The announcement was […]
2019-7-8 16:48 | |
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Coinspeaker Facebook’s Key Competitor from Latin America ‘Taringa!’ Launches Crypto RewardsFacebook's major competitor from Latin American social media giant Taringa! is launching a stablecoin-powered reward system for its 27 million users in collaboration with MakerDAO and e-wallet provider Airtm.
2019-7-8 14:42 | |
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Not only is LinkedIn painfully boring, but it often feels like a sausage party filled with senior level white men. And research backs this up: in 2017, a study by LinkedIn revealed how sexist norms infiltrate the way men and women present themselves on LinkedIn.
2019-7-3 14:19 | |
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The Blockchain Association has taken over the “Defend “Crypto” fund setup to help finance the legal battle between Kik and the SEC. The social messaging firm has stated that it feels the money could be better put to use by the industry collectively.
2019-6-29 02:00 | |
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Long before Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram ruled the social media world, there was Myspace. One of the earliest social networks crossed the mark of 100 million users in 2006. However, a report published by Vice today suggests that its employees used a specific tool to spy on its users.
2019-6-25 14:28 | |
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Billionaire Mark Cuban is often the guy on "Shark Tank" who graciously declines to make an investment into one of the hopeful entrepreneurs pitching to him and a panel of investors. He's also backed some smash hits whose revenues have soared.
2019-6-25 03:15 | |
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The latest news from EOS’s new foray into social networking is that Block. One paid $30 million for the Voice. com domain name. Although the transaction went through at the end of May, the news was formally announced on June 18.
2019-6-22 18:18 | |
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"Social money" startup Roll raised a $1.7 million seed round from BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes, Gary Vaynerchuk and Techstars.
2019-6-20 15:00 | |
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As part of its broader plans to make its decentralized social media platform Voice hugely successful, EOS block producer, Block. one has purchased the Voice. com domain name from MicroStrategy for a whopping $30 million, according to a filing published by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 18, 2019.
2019-6-20 15:00 | |
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Eos developer Block.one has paid $30 million in cash to purchase the voice.com domain name for its new blockchain-based social media, called “Voice”
2019-6-19 12:14 | |
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By CCN Markets: When it comes to what’s gone wrong with Big Tech, the only surprise you would expect is if Facebook was missing from the list. From data privacy violations to aiding genocide to enhancing the spread of fake news, the social media giant has become a global ignominy.
2019-6-16 18:37 | |
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Last month, another well-funded social robot startup, Anki, closed its doors for good. And it wasn’t the first. In March, Jibo, which had received $73 million in funding, announced that it was shutting down its servers.
2019-6-15 17:00 | |
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The crypto-market has long been preparing to welcome Facebook and its pet crypto-project. The social media giant continues to expand its reach after receiving backing from Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber.
2019-6-14 17:30 | |
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Facebook has begun assembling a who’s who of big tech companies to back its soon to be unveiled cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin. The likes of Mastercard, Visa, Uber, and PayPal are all backing the social media giant’s upcoming digital coin due to be unveiled later this month, and officially rolled out next year, reports The Wall St Journal.
2019-6-14 11:49 | |
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By CCN Markets: A gang in India’s Madhya Pradesh state which scammed U. S. citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars through Bitcoin and other methods has been busted and its members arrested. The gang which ran its operations out of a call center is estimated to have made around $1.
2019-6-14 15:07 | |
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A screenshot of what appears to be a message from Block. one CEO Brendan Blumer reveals that he expects top social media influencers to be able to generate $50–100 million in revenue from Voice, EOS’s new social media platform.
2019-6-13 03:44 | |
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Only Real Users, Not Bots Can Open Accounts on Voice Mr. Blumer explained that they spent a year working on this social media platform that is called Voice. The product was announced, however, on June 1, 2019.
2019-6-8 00:44 | |
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In a bid to boost public confidence in its proposed GlobalCoin cryptocurrency and reassure financial regulators, leading social media network, Facebook is reportedly looking to hand over the management of Project Libra to an independent foundation.
2019-6-8 23:00 | |
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Last week Block. one confirmed the launch of an EOS-based social network. Having purchased over $20 million worth of RAM prior to the announcement, pundits had already guessed the company was up to something big.
2019-6-8 21:17 | |
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GlobalCoin, Facebook’s own cryptocurrency, will reportedly be announced this month. According to a report in The Information, the social media giant is set to provide more details about the coin and could allow its employees to take their salary in the form of the new token.
2019-6-7 01:49 | |
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Social media mogul Facebook will reportedly announce its cryptocurrency later in June. The company will also charge third-parties $10M to become validator nodes. Facebook to Charge $10M For Validator Nodes The largest social media website in the world, Facebook, is reported to announce its cryptocurrency later this month.
2019-6-6 14:00 | |
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By CCN: John de Mol, who is behind the reality television hit show “Big Brother,” blames Facebook for scammers using his likeness on fraudulent bitcoin-fueled ads that stole nearly $2 million from investors.
2019-6-6 22:30 | |
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In a press release issued June 4, 2019, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated that it was suing Kik Interactive Inc. for conducting a $100 million illegal initial coin offering (ICO) of digital tokens.
2019-6-5 11:00 | |
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As expected, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Kik Interactive Inc. The regulatory body alleges that the social messaging firm turned crypto company broke securities laws when it held its $100 million ICO in 2017.
2019-6-5 00:00 | |
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On May 28, 2019, during the Unchained podcast, the co-founder of the social media platform Kik and its cryptocurrency arm Kin Foundation, Ted Livingston, announced the launch of a $5 million fund to fight Kin’s ICO case with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
2019-5-30 20:00 | |
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By CCN: Canadian mobile-messaging company Kik is preparing to fight the SEC tooth-and-nail when the agency sues the firm over its $100 million ICO. Many companies settle to avoid a protracted and expensive legal war.
2019-5-31 17:36 | |
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Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.
2019-5-29 23:15 | |
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Canadian tokenized social media startup Kik has launched a $5 million initiative to fund a lawsuit against the U.S. SEC
2019-5-28 19:36 | |
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Beginning in 2016, China saw the sudden and meteoric rise of the short video social media platform Kuaishou lion people, with 100 million daily active users. What makes it unique among Chinese apps is not its feature set, but the demographics of its user pool, which is comprised of a higher percentage of rural and… This story continues at The Next Web
2019-5-28 12:38 | |
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Will Facebook cryptocurrency GlobalCoin be the catalyst to mass adoption propelling cryptocurrency usage from 30 million to 2. 4 billion? Maybe, but several concerns remain. Facebook Quietly Planning Killer App If one thing was notable about Facebook and cryptocurrency this time last year, it was the platform’s hostility towards it.
2019-5-24 12:00 | |
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Some investors, who staked $100,000, received a $6.6 million return, and while Block.one has promised to launch a social media platform in June, most are wondering where exactly the crypto firm made its money in the wake of crypto winter.
2019-5-22 19:16 | |
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Nanogames is a fair and impartial prediction and guessing platform that aims to eradicate all unfair factors and make players feel comfortable and have fun. The platform has generated 10 million verified hashes and each hash corresponds to a curve crush multiplier.
2019-5-21 05:45 | |
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By CCN: Another day, another Facebook data leak affecting millions of dubious users. This time around, security researcher Anurag Sen discovered a public Amazon Web Services (AWS) database containing the contact information of more than 49 million Instagram accounts, TechCrunch reports.
2019-5-21 00:35 | |
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The Bitcoin bull market is changing investor habits – but the vast majority of the supply has stayed in the same wallet since 2018. 10. 5 Million Bitcoins Dormant Analysis of data from BitInfoCharts and social media transaction monitoring resource Whale Alerts produced some interesting reading this week.
2019-5-20 18:00 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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Over a million internet users are visiting Binance every day as the cryptocurrency exchange manages a $40 million hack scandal amidst a bitcoin price boom. Toronto-based Kevin Rooke, known for his insightful crypto-related social media analysis, revealed that Binance’s daily average traffic had gone up by 13 percent in April.
2019-5-11 14:00 | |
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Modern slavery is unfortunately still part of our global reality, with more than 40 million people believed to be victims of human trafficking around the world. It’s up to governments, organizations, and society as a whole to battle this evil – and as we heard at TNW2019 Conference, data science can help.
2019-5-10 14:27 | |
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Cryptocurrency’s best-known figures continue to debate exchange Binance’s handling of its $40 million hack amid claims executives planned to undo past Bitcoin transactions. Binance CEO Rejects Reorg In a lengthy debate still playing out on social media, Binance received mixed reviews after CEO Changpang Zhao appeared to suggest there was a plan to conduct a reorganization (‘reorg’) of the Bitcoin blockchain.
2019-5-9 00:00 | |
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The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has suffered a hack on May 7th where it lost over $40 million in Bitcoin. The exchange’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, considered pursuing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain, which sparked mass outrage on social media and was followed by a drop in Binance’s BNB coin.
2019-5-8 21:11 | |
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In a world of celebrity-promoted everything, does crypto need a celebrity revolution to go mainstream, or would that do more harm than good? Crypto of Personality In late April 2019, it was announced that reality star and social media influencer Kim Kardashian charges up to a million dollars for each Instagram post on her pageRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-7 19:00 | |
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Phone scams are on the rise according to officials at the New York Police Department. Thieves have stolen over $2 million posing as false social security officials. Requesting payments are made in BTC, prepaid gift cards and bank wire transfers, they have forced the police to issue warnings to unsuspecting targets. Using trust warranted by […]
2019-5-4 02:25 | |
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New York’s Police Department (NYPD) is alerting the public about phone scammers posing as Social Security Administration officials and requesting payment in Bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, and bank wire transfers.
2019-5-2 13:05 | |
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Vault. io, Inc. , a New York-based startup headed by former Facebook veterans, has announced the launch of Editional, an Ethereum-based social platform that allows users to create, claim, and trade unique collectibles online.
2019-5-1 21:01 | |
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On April 30, 2019, ex-Facebook employees announced the launch of an Ethereum-based social media platform, Editional. The use of blockchain technology in this instance renders all images unique and non-replicable and hopes to return power to creators.
2019-4-30 16:40 | |
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By CCN. com: Times Square visitors were treated to an embarrassing shellacking of Elon Musk and his Tesla clown car on Monday. Three advertisements appeared in the popular area of New York City demanding that Tesla provide Shenma, a high-end Chinese ride-hailing firm, with compensation.
2019-4-30 09:18 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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Within the next 50 years, Facebook could feel more like a place for the dead than the living. According to academics from the University of Oxford, by 2069, the dead could outnumber the living on the social network.
2019-4-29 16:19 | |
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Australian fraudsters earned $4. 3 million (AU$6. 1 million) with cryptocurrency scams last year—a revenue increase of 190 percent when compared to 2017. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)’s new report details the extent of the nation’s problem with cryptocurrency fraud.
2019-4-29 13:01 | |
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The relevance of blockchain-powered marketplaces has been on an upward swing, leading to sovereign governments entering the fray as well. SOMA, the decentralized platform allowing social interaction via blockchain technology has secured a whopping €1.
2019-4-29 11:00 | |
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AI studio SOAR, created by Ancestry founder Paul Allen, brings Project Liberty data sharing and storage portals for families and communities focused on local government.
Users will be able to convert Blumer tokens for other cryptocurrencies and withdraw to wallets.
Could blockchain fight against state-sponsored censorship in a post-coronavirus era?
Facebook has started advertising for a head of data science to work on its Calibra wallet
A decentralized platform that rewards content creators on social networks says it allows influencers to convert their fame into concert tickets, clothes and crypto #SPONSORED
The startup says it is launching a “revolutionary investment platform” based on blockchain. The idea is to use social networks for gaining access to premium investment products previously available only to the wealthy #SPONSORED