Despite Facebook’s effort to rapidly self-regulate in the wake of Russian interference in the US election using Facebook ads, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he would support government regulation if implemented properly. “We’re working with congress on legislation to make advertising more transparent. I think this would be very good if it’s done well” Zuckerberg said… Read More
Facebook is still in the middle of its House Intelligence Committee hearing about Russian election interference, but the looming concerns over misuse haven’t dampened its business as profits continue to soar and its share price hits an all-time high. Still, CEO Mark Zuckerberg saw it fit to break from his traditional “Our business is doing well” script to add “But none… Read More
Russian interests have been attempting to influence public opinion via social media to an extent no one expected. The content itself, however, has largely been a mystery — the ads and fake accounts have long been taken down. But Facebook delivered them to Congress as part of an ongoing inquiry, and the House’s Intelligence Committee has posted a handful ahead of its hearing tomorrow. Read More
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While the Senate has spent the better part of a year making sense of Russia’s actions to influence the 2016 election, tech made quick work of its own analysis — or so it thinks. The glacial pace of Congress is often criticized, particularly contrasted to the tech industry which still moves fast and breaks things, although Facebook gave up that slogan in 2014. But when it comes… Read More
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off the first of three hearings this week examining the relationship between social media and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The hearings mark the first time that lawmakers will hear testimony from Google, Facebook and Twitter around how their platforms were and are manipulated as part of Russian political… Read More
Russian information troll farm the Internert Research Agency spent just 0.05% as much on Facebook ads as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaigns combined in the run up to the 2016 US presidential election. Clinton and Trump spent $81 million, while the IRA spent $46,000. Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch revealed these figures today during the Senate Intelligence… Read More
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You know what’s cool? Not just being worth over $1 billion, but saving your customers $1 billion. Today, zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood announced that it’s hit 3 million registered accounts, $100 billion transacted in its app, and $1 billion in saved commissions considering competitors like E*Trade cost $7 per trade. And now, Robinhood is getting a web version where beyond… Read More
Heyfont is a platform that helps designers to make better decisions related to fonts.
We want to improve the way to choose fonts, creating a more interactive and realistic way to test them before they´re used. You can preview on UI - Branding and Plain text, for our final version we'll have the download option, so you can download the previews and share them with your fellows. At this point we have a list of fonts ready to use but we are searching new font designers that want to be part of this.
User Country API is a GeoIP service that provides a bit more information about the country the user is in, including their currency, timezone, language information, in just one API call in a single step. You no longer have to do multiple lookups (with a database or some API service) for the most common use cases of geo IP lookups.
