Must Reads from this week 

LOL of the week

“Yelling ‘Dilly Dilly’ Is Banned at the Masters, and Bud Light Is Royally Offended

Simple read of the week


Powerful read of the week


Alternative read of the week 

James Gall was in a freak hockey accident and was in a coma and now incredibly is planning for the commonwealth games - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43540284 

Social Media 


“For years, Twitter's zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it’s scrambling to make up for lost time.” https://www.fastcompany.com/40547818/did-we-create-this-monster-how-twitter-turned-toxic 

“Gorgeous, popular, sought-after by brands... but these models on Instagram aren't real. They're digitally created. And to a lot of people, that doesn't matter at all.” http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180402-the-fascinating-world-of-instagrams-virtual-celebrities

It has not been Facebook month has it.... 
Facebook Broadcast of Mets Game Runs Into Glitches and Complaints https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/sports/baseball/wheres-the-mets-phillies-game-on-facebook.html 

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-messages/

DeleteFacebook movement might be harder than you’d think, thanks to “technical obstacles” - https://www.wsj.com/articles/some-facebook-quitters-face-technical-obstacles-1522947553

Instagram is building a team to stop people from feeling bad on Instagram https://quartzy.qz.com/1238074/instagrams-new-wellbeing-team-will-address-its-effect-on-mental-health/

Grindr the dating app were allowing third parties to access private HIV information - https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/grindr-hiv-status-privacy?utm_term=.lm5R612Yk3#.yn1xkgVDB4

Business

“The Medium Model - How we are building a system for high-quality publishing at scale” https://blog.medium.com/the-medium-model-3ec28c6f603a

Google
‘The Business of War’: Google Employees Protest Work for the Pentagon https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html

“Britain's biggest estate agent is working with Google's former UK MD to build an online mortgage broker” http://uk.businessinsider.com/countrywide-and-blenheim-chalcot-launch-digital-mortgage-broker-dynamo-2018-4?r=US&IR=T

Google have appointed AI engineer to lead search as they concentrate on AI first results - https://9to5google.com/2018/04/02/report-new-google-search-ai-heads/ 

Blackberry are at it again... BlackBerry accuses Snapchat of using its patented messaging technology http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-blackberry-snapchat-20180403-story.html

Chinese bike-sharing pioneer Mobike sold to ambitious Meituan Dianping for $2.7B https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/chinese-bike-sharing-pioneer-mobike-sold-to-ambitious-meituan-dianping-for-2-7b/

“Walmart now price matching Amazon on 53% of products” https://www.retaildive.com/news/walmart-now-price-matching-amazon-on-53-of-products/520577/