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Must Reads from this week
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LOL of the week
“Yelling
‘Dilly
Dilly’ Is Banned at the Masters, and Bud Light Is Royally Offended
The brand will send 1,000 shirts with the catchphrase to Augusta”
http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/yelling-dilly-dilly-is-banned-at-the-masters-and-bud-light-is-royally-offended/
Simple read of the week
“Which is worse...”
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2018/04/which-is-worse.html
Powerful read of the week
The Rock has opened up about his battle with depression -
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/04/01/dwayne-johnson-opens-up-about-depression-battle-moms-suicide-attempt.html
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
“YouTube shooting: Twitter and Facebook explodes with misinformation and hoaxes”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/youtube-shooting-fake-news-twitter-facebook-identity-illegal-immigrant-hoax-misinformation-a8287946.html
“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/
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LOL of the week
Simple read of the week
Powerful read of the week
Alternative read of the week
Social Media
Business