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Why (and how) China is tying social-media behavior to credit scores

The Parallax

In 2020, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, China’s most popular social networks, will be required to include all users in social-credit systems unique to their platforms. Some of the social-networks have already built in and launched social-credit systems, albeit on an opt-in basis for now.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector.

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River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, launches with $10.4 million in funding

TechCrunch

River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. adults get their news either “often” or “sometimes” from social media.

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Tencent backs digital rights startup Pex in $57M round

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, Pex had previously raised $7 million , and it acquired music rights startup Dubset last year. We are social animals.” ” (Plus, recognition can lead to moneymaking opportunities.). Pex says the new funding will allow it to continue scaling the Attribution Engine.

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Exacerbating our ‘fake news’ problems: Chatbots

The Parallax

VANCOUVER—Of all the tactics hackers use to attack a target, the most common by far is the innocuous-sounding “social engineering.” Social engineering has become a big business for cybercriminals. READ MORE ON SOCIAL ENGINEERING. Why (and how) China is tying social-media behavior to credit scores. They’re being analyzed.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Along this journey of global, open, and social digital networks, we’ve also encountered enormous challenges in grappling with issues such as individual privacy and equal access, as well as the inherently large inequalities that emerge from the gaps between the digital haves and have-nots. Workforce communities. Marketplace.