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The ‘Digital Town Square’: What Might Musk’s Twitter Deal Mean?
30.4.2022
Jean Burgess, Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, the Queensland University of Technology._____
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around USD 44bn. He says he’s...
Elon's Twitter: bluesky Keeps Independence, Dorsey Praises Musk, Market Awaits Next Step
26.4.2022
Tesla chief and multi-billionaire Elon Musk is taking over Twitter for USD 54.20 a share, and has already received praise from Twitter’s founder Jack Dorsey. Meanwhile, the Twitter-funded decentralized social media project bluesky says it will remain independent “no matter what happens.”...
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Elon Musk in Talks with Twitter Board to Strike Deal - Report
25.4.2022
Twitter and Tesla chief and billionaire Elon Musk are reportedly in talks to strike a deal, after Musk earlier this month laid out an offer to buy 100% of the shares in Twitter for USD 45bn and take the company private. Shares of Tesla rose modestly on the news in pre-market trading...
Japan’s Top Messaging App LINE Launches Marketplace With 40,000 NFTs
15.4.2022
Japan’s top social network and messaging app, LINE, has launched a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The new service allows 90 million LINE users to send and exchange NFTs with their friends. ‘LINE NFT’ Marketplace Launched LVC Corp., the operator of LINE’s...
Spanish Securities Watchdog Calls for Search Engines, Social Network Operators to Stop Promoting Unregistered Investment Platforms
6.4.2022
The CNMV, the Spanish securities regulator, has called for large search engines and social networks to stop offering advertising services for platforms that are not registered to offer investment or financial services. The regulator has also stated that it will take matters into its own hands...
Tether Teases Swiss Bitcoin Plan, VKontakte Mulls NFTs, FTX Ups Its Game, EU Open to Crypto + More News
21.2.2022
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Abandoned TON Crypto Project Could Be Coming to Telegram After All, in a Different Form
20.1.2022
The Russian social media giant Telegram’s once-grand crypto plans may be dead and buried, but developers working on a network based on the abandoned Telegram Open Network (TON) are edging closer to launching their own version of TON.
The TON platform, which was to make use of a coin named...
Crypto Job Postings Increased 400% in 2021 According to Linkedin
18.1.2022
According to new data from Linkedin, a professional work-based social network, the number of cryptocurrency-related job postings soared in 2021. The increase was even higher than the general increase in tech-related job postings. The nature of these posts is also diversifying, with various...
Social network Reddit reveals plans to go public
17.12.2021
After months of speculation, the popular social media site Reddit has finally announced that it is filing for an initial public offering (IPO)
Jack Dorsey’s Decision to Quit Twitter Is Not a Vote of Confidence in Future of Social Media
5.12.2021
Theo Tzanidis, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, the University of the West of Scotland.
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We Know Better Than to Allow Facebook to Control the Metaverse
21.11.2021
Bree McEwan, Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto._______
In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was designed to reflect a focus beyond the Facebook social...
Blockchain-Based Social Network Viblos to Launch Beta Version in March 2022
18.11.2021
PRESS RELEASE. In today’s day and age, social networks play an immense part in people’s lives. However, some privacy issues and other concerns have surfaced and become problems that many centralized bodies have yet to address. Somewhat unexpectedly, the need for a decentralized...
Candao Launches Its First Decentralized Social Network DAO
15.11.2021
Technology is practically charging the future of the world that we know of, along with the universe we are yet to come across. And while any form of nascent revelations in the tech sector has steadily taken its root deep into separate factions in the various industries, blockchain technology...
‘Public’ Adds Cryptocurrency Trading Citing Millions of Investors See Crypto as ‘Compelling Asset Class’
8.10.2021
Investing platform Public, with over 1 million users, is rolling out cryptocurrency trading. “Crypto is gaining momentum as a compelling asset class for millions of investors,” the company said. Public Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Investing platform Public describes itself...
PocketNet Changes Name to Bastyon and Releases Private Messaging App With PKOIN Chat Payments
10.9.2021
Bastyon’s messaging app would include end-to-end encryption, no link to phone number or any other metadata making it the most private messenger. Pocketnet, the social network based on proof-of-stake blockchain technology, enters a new phase of growth by changing its name to Bastyon and...
Sonic Smut Is Flooding Trump’s New Social Network
4.7.2021
Nary a month after the dramatic implosion of former president (and current Twitter refugee) Donald Trump’s attempted blogging career, the septuagenarian authoritarian’s “team” of grifting enablers has launched its latest attempt at a social network for folks who are just too darn patriotic...
Myspace Tom Anderson is ‘Buying The Dip,’ Posts Laser Eyes Meme on Twitter
17.5.2021
Myspace founder Tom Anderson has joined the heated chatter surrounding the recent crypto market drop. The now-retired entrepreneur expressed his feelings about the situation, posting a laser eyes photo of himself accompanied with a short caption, “Buying The Dip.” Myspace Tom Tweets...
Binance Reaches Twitter Trending Topic Status in Venezuela
8.5.2021
Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, has reached a trending topic status in the Twitter social network sphere in Venezuela. The trend before the weekend, shows just how important cryptocurrency topics are for the citizens of the country at the moment. Cryptocurrencies...
Uhive - First Social Network to Create NFTs for Users’ Profiles!
19.3.2021
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
Uhive is a revolutionary new British creator-first social network that has made it its mission to turn current social networks’ business models on their head! The cosmic themed social network is the first social...
Ex-Block.One CTO Larimer Makes a Comeback With Social Network Project
3.3.2021
Dan Larimer. Well-known blockchain developer Daniel Larimer is back with plans for a new, "logically decentralized" communication platform dubbed Clarion, being showered with both praise and criticism for it.
In a Tuesday GitHub post, Larimer introduced the new project, stating that it's...