Dissatisfaction with Mainstream Social Media Fuels Opportunities for Challengers
In the gripping aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, something equally seismic was happening on the social media scene. Content moderation and censoring on mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter took centerstage when these companies began removing or censoring posts and accounts …
The Curious Case of the TikTok App: The Good & the Ban
TikTok – the app that started out as Musical.ly in the US and went through a (Kafka-like) metamorphosis overnight only to be introduced to us as ByteDance’s Tik-Tok. Its journey has taken a very melodramatic turn. While the app is every adult and teen’s sweetheart, …
Facebook Debuts its Gaming App (First on Google Play)
Seeing a silver lining amid social distancing and a lockdown owing to coronavirus, Facebook fast-tracked the debut of its gaming app and launched it on Monday, April 20th. That is two months prior to its scheduled release in June. And the timing couldn’t have been …
The Business of Apps: Three Fateful Rivalries Show Why the Idea Itself Matters Less Than You Think
A billion-dollar app idea? Not likely. Before every intellectual property (IP) attorney in the world begins calling to argue otherwise, let me clarify. There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet. Any idea for an app has likely been thought up hundreds of times …
Pros and Cons of Facebook
Many people have at least one Facebook account. Adults use Facebook to connect with high school friends, co-workers, and other people in their network. Teens use Facebook to keep in touch with their friends and post every documentation of their life via pictures and statuses. …
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