Snapchat hides a million Easter eggs on the Snap Map in a geocaching game
Cue that inner child because Snapchat just launched a grownup Easter egg hunt with more than a million eggs. Only instead of elbowing out other kids for candy-filled plastic eggs, Snapchat wants you to compete with friends to find the unlock the most World Lenses in an augmented reality geocaching … …
Telegram ICO Raises $1.7B (What?)
With Telegram's latest raise, it seems that we have set a new scale for crypto projects. $1.7 billion with room for more makes Filecoin's $258 million ICO look downright tawdry. If we'll see another billion-dollar-plus ICO is a fun question to entertain. The aggregate value of crypto tokens and currencies …
Telegram Completes Second ICO, Raising $1.7 Billion, a Third ICO May Be on the Horizon
Telegram Group Inc., the encrypted messaging platform, has completed its second initial coin offering (ICO) — the world's largest — bringing the amount raised to $1.7 billion. The ICO was held to help establish the Telegram Open Network (TON), a “fast, scalable, and user-friendly” cryptocurrency and … Read More
Lawsuit against American Airlines Center links Mark Cuban to ‘noose’ incident
A former employee fired by the company that runs American Airlines Center filed a federal complaint alleging gender, sexual and racial issues in January, according to a Dallas Morning News report. She is now seeking information from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about an incident involving a … Read More
How to Make Money on YouTube in 2018
Have you ever watched a YouTube star's video and thought, I could've done that? Me neither. Out of all the influencer platforms, YouTube strikes me as the most intimidating. But it can also be the most lucrative, with top YouTubers earning well into the six figures from advertising revenue alone. …
YouTube’s best meme took a year and help from another meme to become popular
YouTube operates a little differently. It only takes watching one video for the company's complex and controversial recommendations algorithm to kick into gear. By that logic, it would only take one video to make it to the top of YouTube's trending page to accomplish setting a meme in motion, even …
Jake Paul is getting his own talk show on YouTube Red
Controversial vlogger Jake Paul, brother to similarly controversial vlogger Logan Paul, is developing a talk show for YouTube Red. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul will host and executive produce the show, which is described as having a “late-night variety show feel.” The pilot for the as-of-yet … Read More
5 Limiting Beliefs With the Power to Kill Your Business in the Next 12 Months
As you probably know, LinkedIn had a bumpy start. It didn't attract much positive attention at first. Still, though, that rough start didn't stop Microsoft from eventually buying LinkedIn for a whopping $26.2 billion. Clearly, then, your product or service doesn't need to be perfect at launch. You simply need …
Land-hungry Google spends $79.5M on San Jose, Mountain View properties
The company in 2016 agreed with professional networking giant LinkedIn to swap out 3.5 million square feet of property and development rights in Mountain View and Sunnyvale to allow both tech giants to grow unimpeded. Some of that real estate and development rights were on the site around its … Read …
US wins extradition battle against Russia over Yevgeniy Nikulin, accused LinkedIn hacker
Mr. Nikulin was sent to the U.S. overnight, Czech Justice Ministry spokeswoman Tereza Schejbalova said Friday, nearly 18 months after he was apprehended in Prague pursuant to an international arrest warrant issued in connection with allegedly hacking U.S. internet companies LinkedIn, Dropbox and … Read More