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Facebook is powerful enough to face-off with the gov. I reckon, this is why Facebook is blocked in China ...
Facebook CEO urges Brazilians to decry WhatsApp block
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO - Facebook Inc's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called on Brazilians to demand his company's WhatsApp messaging service never be blocked again after an appeals court on Tuesday overturned the application's second suspension in five months.
In a post in English on his Facebook page, the U.S. billionaire and Facebook founder urged Brazilians to gather outside Congress in the capital Brasilia at 6 p.m. (1700 EDT) on Wednesday to rally in favor of legislation that would prevent Internet services from being blocked.
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(04-05-2016, 09:30 AM)CityFarmer Wrote: Facebook is powerful enough to face-off with the gov. I reckon, this is why Facebook is blocked in China ...
Facebook CEO urges Brazilians to decry WhatsApp block
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO - Facebook Inc's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg called on Brazilians to demand his company's WhatsApp messaging service never be blocked again after an appeals court on Tuesday overturned the application's second suspension in five months.
In a post in English on his Facebook page, the U.S. billionaire and Facebook founder urged Brazilians to gather outside Congress in the capital Brasilia at 6 p.m. (1700 EDT) on Wednesday to rally in favor of legislation that would prevent Internet services from being blocked.
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http://www.todayonline.com/business/braz...k-whatsapp
Facebook has won this round...
WhatsApp blockage ends in Brazil: Facebook
04 May 2016 10:50
[SAO PAULO] A Brazilian court on Tuesday agreed to end its blockage of the smartphone messaging service WhatsApp after suspending it for failing to surrender user data, the company said.
WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, appealed against the shutdown imposed on the company on Monday for not handing over information requested in a drug trafficking investigation.
The court rejected an initial appeal, but a second appeal was upheld, a spokesman for WhatsApp told AFP early on Tuesday afternoon.
"WhatsApp is now back online in Brazil!" Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his page at the leading online social network.
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It is a small case in $ sense, but carries a strong signal base on the norm in China...
Facebook wins trademark case against Chinese factory
BEIJING — Facebook has won a Chinese trademark case against a company that registered the brand name “face book”, in a sign that Beijing attitudes are softening towards the world’s largest social networking site, which is blocked to China’s 700 million Internet users.
Mr Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, has been at the forefront of a charm offensive apparently aimed at prying open the Chinese market.
As well as trying to master the Chinese language, Mr Zuckerberg has entertained China’s chief censor at his San Francisco home, met the head of the ruling Communist Party’s propaganda apparatus and jogged through Tiananmen Square on a polluted day.
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Facebook has stepped into others' turf, probably more on YouTube...
Facebook signs deals with media firms, celebrities for Live: WSJ
Facebook Inc <FB.O> has signed deals worth more than $50 million with media companies and celebrities to create videos for its live-streaming service, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Facebook has signed nearly 140 deals, including with CNN, the New York Times, Vox Media, Tastemade, Mashable and the Huffington Post, the Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a document.
Comedian Kevin Hart, celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, wellness guru Deepak Chopra and NFL quarterback Russell Wilson are among the celebrities that Facebook has partnered with.
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Citron's Andrew Left Says Facebook Could Lose Nearly One-Third Of Its Value
Snapchat and Pokemon Go demonstrate the challenges facing the social media giant.
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The chatbot deployment, might create a giant e-commerce market for Facebook. Anyway, chatbot has been proven in China, but not sure globally?
Facebook Messenger allows for direct merchant sales
13 Sep 2016 08:53
[SAN FRANCISCO] Facebook announced Monday a new online payment system that will allow businesses to sell directly to consumers on its Messenger application.
"We're kicking off the beginning of messages with payments that will allow businesses to sell products and services directly to customers in Messenger," the huge social network said in a statement.
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I keep a close eye on FB. And its increase for this time inspires trust. It would be nice to know whether there are start-ups, similar to Facebook. Could you advise something?
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The data should already be anonymized, before available to the developer, but coupled with other info, individual privacy is still jeopardized. This is a dilemma of Big Data innovations. Using it to tackle criminal cases is OK, but controversial on crime prevention.
Facebook bars developers from using data for surveillance
14 Mar 2017 08:47
[SAN FRANCISCO] Facebook Inc barred software developers on Monday from using the massive social network's data to create surveillance tools, closing off a process that had been exploited by US police departments to track protesters Facebook, its Instagram unit and rival Twitter Inc came under fire last year from privacy advocates after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said in a report that police were using location data and other user information to spy on protesters in places such as Ferguson, Missouri.
In response to the ACLU report, the companies shut off the data access of Geofeedia, a Chicago-based data vendor that said it works with organisations to "leverage social media," but Facebook policy had not explicitly barred such use of data in the future.
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Similar dilemma is faced by telcos too. The apps are using most of the data traffic, but paid nothing on the infra. The model isn't sustainable, IMHO
US newspaper group assails Google-Facebook online 'duopoly'
11 Jul 2017 00:01
[WASHINGTON] The US newspaper industry on Monday warned of a "duopoly" in online news by Google and Facebook, and called for legislation that would relax antitrust rules allowing collective negotiations with the internet giants.The News Media Alliance said that because Google and Facebook dominate online news traffic digital advertising, "publishers are forced to surrender their content and play by their rules on how news and information is displayed, prioritised and monetised". A statement by the association of some 2,000 media groups said news organisations "are limited with disaggregated negotiating power against a de facto duopoly that is vacuuming up all but an ever-decreasing segment of advertising revenue." The group, formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America, includes large dailies like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as hundreds of smaller media groups and regional news organisations.The request comes amid a prolonged slump in traditional print news, as readers increasingly turn to online platforms.News Media Alliance president David Chavern, writing in a Wall Street Journal commentary, said that the internet platforms "distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting". He said Google and Facebook account for more than 70 per cent of the US$73 billion spent each year on digital advertising, and they eat up most of the growth, with nearly 80 per cent of all online referral traffic coming from the two firms."But the two digital giants don't employ reporters. They don't dig through public records to uncover corruption, send correspondents into war zones, or attend last night's game to get the highlights," Mr Chavern said."They expect an economically squeezed news industry to do that costly work for them." Facebook and Google, which share some revenue with news organisations on certain platforms, have been stepping up efforts to help media groups with grants and other programs.Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in a statement to AFP: "We're committed to helping quality journalism thrive on Facebook. We're making progress through our work with news publishers and have more work to do." Google said in a statement: "We want to help news publishers succeed as they transition to digital. In recent years we've built numerous specialised products and technologies, developed specifically to help distribute, fund, and support newspapers."AFP
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(11-07-2017, 09:26 AM)YMPL Wrote: Similar dilemma is faced by telcos too. The apps are using most of the data traffic, but paid nothing on the infra. The model isn't sustainable, IMHO
US newspaper group assails Google-Facebook online 'duopoly'
11 Jul 2017 00:01
[WASHINGTON] The US newspaper industry on Monday warned of a "duopoly" in online news by Google and Facebook, and called for legislation that would relax antitrust rules allowing collective negotiations with the internet giants.The News Media Alliance said that because Google and Facebook dominate online news traffic digital advertising, "publishers are forced to surrender their content and play by their rules on how news and information is displayed, prioritised and monetised". A statement by the association of some 2,000 media groups said news organisations "are limited with disaggregated negotiating power against a de facto duopoly that is vacuuming up all but an ever-decreasing segment of advertising revenue." The group, formerly known as the Newspaper Association of America, includes large dailies like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as hundreds of smaller media groups and regional news organisations.The request comes amid a prolonged slump in traditional print news, as readers increasingly turn to online platforms.News Media Alliance president David Chavern, writing in a Wall Street Journal commentary, said that the internet platforms "distort the flow of economic value derived from good reporting". He said Google and Facebook account for more than 70 per cent of the US$73 billion spent each year on digital advertising, and they eat up most of the growth, with nearly 80 per cent of all online referral traffic coming from the two firms."But the two digital giants don't employ reporters. They don't dig through public records to uncover corruption, send correspondents into war zones, or attend last night's game to get the highlights," Mr Chavern said."They expect an economically squeezed news industry to do that costly work for them." Facebook and Google, which share some revenue with news organisations on certain platforms, have been stepping up efforts to help media groups with grants and other programs.Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in a statement to AFP: "We're committed to helping quality journalism thrive on Facebook. We're making progress through our work with news publishers and have more work to do." Google said in a statement: "We want to help news publishers succeed as they transition to digital. In recent years we've built numerous specialised products and technologies, developed specifically to help distribute, fund, and support newspapers."AFP
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Ben Thompson doesn't seem to agree. He thinks the future for publications in general will be "paid subscription" - meaning that although the days of large-scale monopolies and above-average ROA by newspapers are definitely over, content will still be the key decisive factor to make (abeit less) money - So things like local news, or specialized publications like fishing/motoring magazines (Men's Health anyone?) will continue to be profitable and thrive accordingly.
https://stratechery.com/2017/publishers-...ublishers/
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