BJP-Congress Twitter spat: Rahul calls PM ‘Big Boss’ who spies, BJP rubbishes charge
He's the Big Boss who likes to spy on Indians. Now he wants data on our children. 13 lakh NCC cadets are being forced to download the APP,” Gandhi said on Twitter using the hashtag “DeleteNaMoApp“. The BJP, however, rubbished the charge and alleged that the Congress chief was speaking …
Donald Glover fan goes viral after posting photo of encounter on Twitter
A comedy screenwriter has told of the moment he bumped into his idol Donald Glover and was able to tell him how he had inspired him. Jaboukie Young-White , who was named as one of Rolling Stone's '25 Under 25' last year, met Glover on 24 March and shared the …
How To Regulate Facebook
Imagine that Jimmy Wales and the other good people who built Wikipedia had also created a free, non-commercial version of Facebook ― call it Wikiface. People could use it to stay in touch with family and friends, to pass along items that they found interesting, and create networks of common …
There is ‘good’ data collection and then there’s Facebook, and you need to know the difference
That's because of the same things that got Facebook into its latest privacy mess. The same data that can be used to allegedly influence voters by lying to them is also used to make life easier through personalization. The difference is not the data itself or how it's being collected; …
Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
After an Ars Technica report that Facebook surreptitiously scrapes call and text message data from Android phones and has done so for years, the scandal-burdened company has responded that it only collects that information from users who have given permission. Facebook's public statement, posted … Read More
Sales professionals in UAE lag behind in ‘social selling’
The most listed skills on LinkedIn profiles of sales professionals in the country, however, were business development (32 percent), customer service (32 … increasing popularity of “social selling” as a sales technique, it is important for UAE sales to have “solid” social media skills in today's current climate. Read More
Hospitality Social Media Marketing News – Issue #1
Welcome to the first issue of Hospitality Social Media News, where we cover what just happened in social media and what it means for the hospitality industry. Marketing tactics are ever-changing, but social media is on another level. New features, changes, and updates to the algorithms happen so fast … Read …
Goa CMO says Parrikar letter doing rounds on social media is a hoax
The Goa Chief Minister's Office (CMO) on Sunday issued a statement clarifying that a “letter of repentance and introspection” being circulated on social media attributing it to ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar at the end to make it look like authored by him was “not authentic but a mischief.”. Read …
Social Media Platforms Should Tell The Truth
EU officials are intimidated by social media platforms, the industry attitude summed up by Twitter representatives testifying before British officials in early March, “We are not the arbiters of truth.” Social media platforms are loath to censor fake content, acutely cognizant that its novelty and sensationalism … Read More
Reputational risk of social media
In the sometimes-fraught relationship between major corporations and ordinary citizens (consumers), the explosion of social media has shifted the power into the hands of the masses. Events that routinely slipped through the cracks of public scrutiny prior to the age of Twitter and Facebook now hardly go … Read More