Telegram Raises $1.7 Billion in Initial Coin Offering
With Telegram, people can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc), as well as create groups for up to 100,000 people or channels for broadcasting to unlimited audiences. They can write to phone contacts and find people by their usernames. As a result, Telegram …
Telegram’s Initial Coin Offering Raises $1.7B
Telegram, an encrypted messaging app, has raised a total of $1.7 billion after its second round of funding, making it the world's largest initial coin offering to date. Telegram raised $850 million in March and $850 million in February, the British Virgin Islands-based firm reported, according to filings with … Read …
YouTube Says It Hasn’t Ordered a Jake Paul Show
The 21-year-old digital influencer is working with production houses Propagate Content and Five All in the Fifth Entertainment to develop a series for YouTube Red, THR reported Thursday. However, a source familiar with the situation said YouTube has not made a decision even about the show's format … Read More
Vimeo’s 34-year-old CEO on why she’s not worried about YouTube or Netflix, and how she plans to …
Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud got the job in July 2017, for her vision on how to differentiate Vimeo from larger video services, like YouTube and Netflix. At 34, she's the youngest CEO of an IAC company. She explained what is was like growing up in Flint, Michigan, and career advice …
Some Firefox users can’t watch 4K videos on YouTube
Ultra-high-definition content has been gaining prominence these past couple of years, with Netflix, YouTube and many other video services bolstering their content to include 4K resolution. Unfortunately, some Firefox users aren't getting this option, with the browser capping them at 1080p and in rarer … Read More
No Under Armour: 150 million users’ data lifted from MyFitnessPal
The positive takeaway is that Under Armour didn't store password data unsalted, unlike some other large organisations, including LinkedIn, which failed to secure their members' details against unauthorised access. At least Under Armour had a modicum of under armour to cover itself, and has handled … Read More
LinkedIn Just Launched Native Video Ads. Here’s What it Means for Marketers
LinkedIn announced that brands can now post a native video to their Company Pages and then run targeted ad campaigns. The significance of this product release should not be underestimated, especially for B2B brands. Here's why. LinkedIn finally launched native video for individual users last August … Read More
Katy Perry swoons over Orlando Bloom’s ‘washboard’ abs on Instagram as rekindled romance …
The Dark Horse hitmaker couldn't help but gush about her boyfriend's amazing 'washboard' abs in the comments section after he uploaded a shirtless selfie to Instagram on Thursday. He captioned the snap: '#tbt capetown 'Brian fit' for #zulumovie this photo saved not JUST for vanity but as a lil reminder … …
Don’t Slide Into Atisha Paulson’s DMs
As a straight man with a self-described "feminine" name, Paulson often gets mistaken on Instagram for the female subjects he shoots and posts on his account. With a personal understanding of the underlying misogyny in our culture, Paulson, along with his wife and photo team, created a zine, cTKTKT, … Read …
Finally, an Instagram client for the terminal!
Well, Reddit user ghostreport, who goes by billcccheng on GitHub, finally has the answer: an Instagram news feed for the terminal. It has all that chaos and randomness of the regular Instagram news feed algorithm, except now it's difficult to tell what the images are of because they're in ASCII. …