Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2016

Customers today extrapolate their relationships not only from personal contact, but from every aspect of their interface with your company, including web site and social media interactions, access to peer reviews, as well as the actual services experience. New media shapes and reflects the customer experience.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Investors have been concerned about the social media giant’s slowing growth rate in a year when it has been under scrutiny for data privacy violations and its role in the spread of false and divisive messages by fake user accounts traced to Russian agents during U.S. election campaigns.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium initially focused on helping corporations, government agencies, and other “enterprise” customers to manage “tags,” the snippets of JavaScript embedded in Web pages or e-mails. Tags are a creature of Web analytics, generating data that enable marketing teams to determine if users viewed a Web page or e-mail.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2016

We all know it’s less expensive to automate the support role, through web site forms and touch-tone phone systems. Today’s generation is accustomed to relationships via social media and texting, as long as social protocols are honored. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/08/2016.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Until you have a business, you shouldn’t get a web domain name or social media accounts, since these all should match and are hard to change later. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/22/2016. Co-founder and equity negotiations work best if you own all the equity.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of that smartphone internet time, mobile apps take up 86% of usage and only 14% access time via the mobile web. By 2016, app downloads are estimated to reach 44 billion and app-to-person messaging is seen to overtake text messaging. Suddenly, maintaining a company website and a social media account is no longer enough.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 26, 2018

s data privacy regulator fined Facebook $645,000 for violations that allowed political marketing firm Cambridge Analytica and other outside companies to extract 87 million Facebook profiles worldwide without adequate user knowledge or consent. The purpose of the U.K.’s

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 27, 2017

We’ve just passed a year full of news about the role of technology companies in U.S. elections, democracy, free speech, fairness in hiring, sexual harassment, privacy, data security, and the future job market for humans in the age of robots and artificial intelligence.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2018

As publicity-shy Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before both houses of Congress last week amid an avalanche of criticism about the dearth of user privacy on the world’s biggest social media network, it became crystal clear that the entire social media industry has entered a new and perilous phase.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At Congressional hearings this week on Russia’s use of social media to interfere with the 2016 U.S. But as senators grilled tech company executives at a Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, the discussion often veered to the actions of the big three social.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2017

News is constantly streaming out these days about the role of Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the 2016 presidential election; most disturbing to the public is the apparent use of social media, search, and video channels by Russian operatives seeking to influence U.S.

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Xconomy

MARCH 26, 2018

Among the host of legal woes Facebook is now confronting amid news about the misuse of its member profiles in election politics: The Federal Trade Commission revealed Monday that it is investigating the social media giant’s privacy practices.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB ) has been under pressure to cleanse its pages of fake news since the discovery that Russian-backed agents using false identities tried to sway voters by spreading false and divisive messages during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The company has since purged hundreds of accounts linked to foreign entities.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

Top media giants Facebook and Alphabet are determined to grow this number with the introduction of various airborne devices designed to bring internet to the far corners of the globe to boost their revenues. In 2016, the price of mobile data will remain relatively stable. Streamlined Online Experiences – Think Slack 2016.

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Xconomy

JULY 17, 2018

Selling a new Web-connected thermostat or other wired gizmo to consumers without a plan to deliver the necessary security patches is not only bad business—it’s unethical. So is failing to challenge a law or tech company rule that governs work on technology products, if that rule causes unjustifiable harms to people or the environment.

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Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

In late 2017, a federal watchdog unit assigned a working group to keep an eye on cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and to sound an alert if those alternate currencies showed signs of becoming a risk to the stability of the US financial system.

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Xconomy

JUNE 4, 2019

But the growing concern about the pervasive control of tech giants in arenas such as social media, advertising, and e-commerce stemmed first from revelations about consumers’ lack of meaningful control over the privacy of their personal data.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Facebook expanded its mea culpa on Monday for failing to prevent “bad actors” such as Russian entities from using the social media platform to distort democratic processes—notably the U.S. presidential election in 2016.

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Xconomy

JULY 18, 2018

If top European leaders faced a testy President Donald Trump in a series of meetings this summer, imagine the mood when the president of the European Commission arrives at the White House next Wednesday.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This is only one of the ways social media and other technologies are changing the experience of forming our views on election issues and choosing our candidates. The items are chosen based on their social media rankings among “political influencers” from both the conservative and liberal camps.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. Further research may refine the method, they say.

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Xconomy

JUNE 24, 2019

To hear some people talk, you’d think the age of bipartisan action in Congress was a lost phenomenon of the distant past. But it’s not so, at least when it comes to certain issues. And no one knows it better than the big Silicon Valley tech companies that are the recent targets of proposed bipartisan bills.

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