Are you a fan of the video website vine? If you are then prepare yourself to say goodbye to the website as Twitter, the company that bought Vine, will be closing the Vine website. Several layoffs have already come of the website’s financial burden. To learn more about Vine closing down, read more here.
Social media is facing a new scrutiny as Facebook is being accused of letting advertisers discriminate based on race. ProPublica is reporting that Facebook allows advertisers to narrow their audience by including an Ethnic Affinity. This means that if the company wants to target just African Americans or Asians then they can. To learn more about this new report on Facebook, go here to read more in this article.
Facebook Accused of Letting Advertisers Discriminate by Race
Once you have worked for a major company, where do you go from there? Why on to bigger endeavors of course. A former Twitter executive left to build a virtual reality startup. He left the company to join NextVR which is a virtual reality startup. To learn more of what Danny Keens is doing after leaving Twitter, read more in this article.
Why This Former Twitter Exec Sees Major Potential in Virtual Reality
Google has been working on the hardware and the voice-activated Google assistant for the Pixel phone in an attempt to hammer out minute details of the first phone that will be brought to you by Google. Right now Google software runs on the majority of smartphones worldwide, this new voice activated feature can change all of that with the touch feature. To learn more about this, check out more in this article.
Most people need an external stimulus to get things done–for example, needing an alarm clock to get out of bed. These stimuli can push you out of your comfort zone and help you accomplish things. However, sometimes they push you into a discomfort zone, and can actually hurt your ability to get work done. It’s important when this happens to take a step back and figure out if there is another way you can push yourself that will fix your discomfort zone.
People think that if they try to sell their business with the words unique that it will work. Scott Salyers, the casting producer from Shark Tank explains that this will not work. He sees products from all over the place and most of time it is something he has seen before. People should talk about a different aspect of their product or business to explain tit.
