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Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank

Elon Musk continues to take steps towards a dream that he had more than 20 years ago. Before he merged his financial services company with Peter Thiel’s company to create PayPal, Musk dreamed of building an all-in-one financial platform, X.com.

8th Nov, 2023
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Expert: Cory Doctorow - This guy HATES big tech & plans to change it

Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British journalist and author who has a recently released his latest book - The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation.

26 October
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It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.

The rise of the LinkedIn influencer - putting up daily polls and personal stories - doing anything to juice engagement.

13th Oct, 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3

Meta CEO Mark Zuckeberg sits down with Decoder guest host Alex Heath for a rare interview on the future of AI, his feud with Elon Musk, and all the Quest 3 news out of Meta Connect.

3rd Oct, 2023
Twitter doesn't exist anymore

Join Sascha and Darcy as they travel through three headlines that have them intrigued. Apparently, Twitter no longer exists, one million people are going to be given free vapes in the UK.

17 April
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The relationship between social media use and mental health is becoming clearer

Darcy chats to Hannah Murphy from the Financial Times about the teen mental health crisis caused by our increased exposure to social media.

7 April
TikTok: Is time running out for Chinese apps?

Today Darcy and Sascha ask - if we ban TikTok, will we need to ban all Chinese developed apps?

5 April
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Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content

This article felt particularly timely given France’s new ‘Sharenting Law’. Aimed to curb parents excessively sharing the lives of their children online, France’s law recognises that parents have a legal duty to protect their children’s privacy.

22nd Mar, 2023
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Pounding the table on Meta

With an opening line like that, how could we not include this article from Bireme Capital. Bireme believe that investors are missing the strong story in social media because of all the noise about TikTok.

8th Dec, 2022
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Twitter, cut in half

There is an open question about whether these layoffs will lead to a Twitter outage. According to this article, employees that remained at the company were torn on the risk.

8th Nov, 2022
Social Media
Metas $677 Billion Rout Boots It Out of Worlds Top 20 Stocks

Meta Platforms Inc. shareholders are paying dearly for its spending on the metaverse: The Facebook parents market value has collapsed by a whopping $676 billion this year, forcing it out from the ranks of the worlds 20 largest companies.

3 Nov, 2022

SOURCE: Bloomberg.com
Social Media
Binance CEO says he anticipates 90% of Elon Musk's newly proposed Twitter features will fail: 'The majority of them will not stick'

Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, whose company invested $500 million in the acquisition, said Musk has been a "hard guy to predict" over the past few months.

3 Nov, 2022

SOURCE: Business Insider
Social Media
Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job cuts - Washington Post

Twitter, which was acquired last week by billionaire Elon Musk, plans to let go of a quarter of its workforce as part of what is expected to be a first round of layoffs, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

1 Nov, 2022

SOURCE: Reuters
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TikTok's infinite scroll spotlights a growing media literacy crisis

Google search is facing its biggest challenge in decades. And it’s not from Bing or Ask Jeeves. It’s from TikTok and Instagram.

27th Oct, 2022
Social Media
Snap sets off alarm bells in ad-reliant social media sector

Snap Inc shares sank nearly 30% in premarket trading on Friday, after the company's forecast of zero revenue growth pointed to more pain ahead for a social media sector heavily dependant on digital advertising.

24 Oct, 2022

SOURCE: Reuters
Is it BeReal time?

It is time to BeReal. Move over TikTok, there’s a hot new social media platform in town. With 53 million downloads and monthly active users up more than 2,000% since January, we thought it was time to explore the business behind the hottest social media app of the year.

18 October
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Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral

That is a quote from an analyst at investment bank Needham that covers the Facebook stock. And it’s a big call. Facebook, well now Meta, still operates some of the biggest online platforms in the world - Instagram alone is certainly a business to be admired. But the sentiment of the quote is shared amongst more and more of the investment community these days - can Meta figure it out?

10th Oct, 2022
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"It's a modern-day Facebook" - How BeReal became Gen Z's favourite app

When we think about the next generation of social media challenging Meta’s supremacy, we often think about TikTok and Snapchat (Snapchat isn’t so much new as just incredibly popular with Gen Z). But there are other social platforms out there giving Facebook and Instagram a run for their money. One of these apps is BeReal.

9th Sep, 2022
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Teens, social media and technology 2022

Pew Research have recently released a report into young people’s use of social media and technology, and have highlighted some interesting trends for investors (and parents) to note.

22nd Aug, 2022
Bots enter the chat: Elon's Twitter deal on hold

On the weekend Elon tweeted: Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users. Then he hit pause on his takeover deal with Twitter. Then all hell broke loose.

17 May
Who’s winning the war for our attention?

The total time we spend on social media and streaming platforms is mind-boggling. Every minute, there are 44 million views on Facebook live. But TikTok smash those numbers with three times that engagement - there's 167 million views every minute. So recently, when Netflix, the previously unrivalled king of content, announced its first drop in subscribers in a decade recently… Darcy and Sascha sat down to discuss: Who’s winning in the war for our attention?

30 April
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Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid

This is a long article but it has uniquely important insights for those seeking to understand politics in 2022 and how we contextualise the past 10 to 15 years. For while this article is focused on American politics, the insights apply across the world.

29th Apr, 2022

Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank

Expert: Cory Doctorow - This guy HATES big tech & plans to change it

It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.

Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3

Twitter doesn't exist anymore

The relationship between social media use and mental health is becoming clearer

TikTok: Is time running out for Chinese apps?

Influencer parents and the kids who had their childhood made into content

Pounding the table on Meta

Twitter, cut in half

Metas $677 Billion Rout Boots It Out of Worlds Top 20 Stocks

Binance CEO says he anticipates 90% of Elon Musk's newly proposed Twitter features will fail: 'The majority of them will not stick'

Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job cuts - Washington Post

TikTok's infinite scroll spotlights a growing media literacy crisis

Snap sets off alarm bells in ad-reliant social media sector

Is it BeReal time?

Facebook scrambles to escape stock's death spiral

"It's a modern-day Facebook" - How BeReal became Gen Z's favourite app

Teens, social media and technology 2022

Bots enter the chat: Elon's Twitter deal on hold

Who’s winning the war for our attention?

Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid