Shortly after an Amtrak train crash involving GOP lawmakers in January, the Daily Beast's Ben Collins quickly checked Facebook and discovered a trove of conspiracy theories inside Facebook's trending news section, which is prominently positioned to be
seen by millions of users.
The ads were
seen by millions of users, and the protests launched by these fake news accounts were attended by actual voters.
Not exact matches
By the fall
of 2010, just a year after the buyout, Skype was surging:
Users had climbed to 600
million from about 400
million a year earlier — and it
saw rising usage
of its video calling services.
The company has been haunted
by criticisms
of how it handles
users» data in the wake
of a scandal that
saw millions of people's data shared without their permission to Cambridge Analytica.
If you
see this notification, that means you are one
of the
millions of users who were affected
by the data breach.
It remains to be
seen what will become
of Netlog, the non-dating focused social networking service operated
by Massive Media, that had close to 100
million users in its heydays.
Users will be able to link levels together to provide longer gameplay experiences without the breakup
of going back to the «Pod» and you'll be able to
see what LittleBigPlanet 2 levels / games your friends are playing via activity steams, so gamers will now spend less time searching and more time playing the
millions of levels / games created
by gamers around the world!
After a not so successful fourth quarter in 2011, when only 200k tablets were delivered to stores (not necessarily sold to
users) and a net loss
of about $ 80
million seen by the company, Motorola is trying hard to reach out to its customers and avoid having the Xoom «experience» again with the Xyboard tablets.
Seeing as both versions should be otherwise identical, and the fact that the Xbox 360's
user base still leads the PlayStation 3
by approximately six
million more consoles, it seems safe to attribute this discrepancy to the popularity
of Batman's arch nemesis, who is laughing his way to the bank with almost 300 % more pre-orders.
Mobile eSports will
see huge growth this year driven
by core titles like King
of Glory and casual titles like Battle
of Balls, both
of which are being played
by 75
million users per day.
I'm not expecting AAA 100
million dollar budget games made exclusively for VR with a
user base that can't support that kind
of money yet, but it would be nice to
see SOMETHING
by now...
By the end
of the four - year, $ 1.5
million grant, the team plans to build a simulator that will let
users see how the different choices for carbon dioxide mitigation available to individual countries might map to different local and global costs and benefits.
Frankly, I don't
see how social media sites could operate without them; with
millions of users posting content on these sites daily, their very existence would be threatened if the sites themselves had to be responsible for the content posted
by the
users with no recourse against the violators.
Twitter has a tiger
by the tail — it has an active
user base in the hundreds
of millions, it has become an almost indispensable tool for both news junkies and the media (although this carries risks as well) and it is starting to
see some favorable responses to its ad model.
The chief executive is currently managing the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, which
saw as many as 50
million Facebook
users» profiles accessed
by the Trump - connected data mining firm in violation
of the company's terms
of service.
During its most recent earnings call, Zuckerberg acknowledged that Facebook
users spent 50
million fewer hours per day on the social network than they did the previous quarter, in part
by seeing fewer viral videos — a consequence
of Facebook's new push to prioritize the quality
of interactions on its platform over the popularity
of content.
Since Cambridge Analytica was accused this weekend
of misappropriating data linked to 50
million accounts in an attempt to sway
users» political opinions, Facebook has faced questions from Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and has
seen its stock price drop
by around 10 %.
Sjors has already had a tremendous impact on the way
millions of people use digital currencies, but I'm excited to
see him continue making that impact, across an even greater
user base
by shifting his focus to the protocols themselves.
Facebook
saw its stock drop
by almost 7 percent Monday following reports that the company shared personal data
of as many as 50
million users.
The magnitude
of the public outcry and the amount
of media attention given to the ordeal has been significant even in the context
of the scope
of the incident which is said to have
seen Cambridge Analytica harvest data
of some 50
million Facebook
users while informing less than one - percent
of them
of that activity several years back, then leveraging that information to fight an information war during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, an accusation made
by a whistleblower that the firm repeatedly denied.
In the wake
of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which
saw some 50
million Facebook
users» personal information collected
by a data analytics firm without their knowledge, the social network's CEO stopped short
of promising to extending the privacy protection that it will afford to
users in the European Union, to people beyond those borders.
Since smart contracts alone do not ensure complete transaction security
of the transaction stream fluxing through the system, as
seen from recent mistakes that
saw about $ 300
million locked away in Ethereum smart contracts
by an anonymous
user unknowingly.
For NBC, it already
sees a high level
of engagement to its current Snapchat content and it's being bolstered
by the app's 173
million active
users.
18 August 2017 Android Instant Apps Now Accessible
by 500
Million Devices, Says Google Google also pointed out that developers are
seeing increased
user engagement and acquisition as a result
of creating Instant Apps.
The following month, an article
by The New York Times and ProPublica found that national employers like Verizon, Goldman Sachs and Amazon had placed job recruitment ads limited to certain age groups, while hundreds
of millions of other internet
users never
saw the ads.
The company is facing multiple privacy investigations in the U.S. and U.K. over the leak
of personal information pertaining to as many as 60
million Facebook
users to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (
see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed
by Data Leak Blowback).
Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada continue to spring into action to try and unravel the events that led to the personal information
of as many as 60
million Facebook
users leaking to a voter - profiling firm (
see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed
by Data Leak Blowback).
The company is facing multiple privacy investigations in the U.S. and U.K. over the leak
of personal information pertaining to 60
million Facebook
users to voter - profiling firm Cambridge Analytica (
see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed
by Data Leak Blowback).
By the same year, there will be 52.8
million smart speaker
users in the country, with smart speakers expected to
see far greater rates
of growth over the following two years.
The social media company is
seeing mounting pressure and a collective outcry over personal data for
millions of its
users having been collected
by a voter - profiling firm once retained
by the Trump campaign.
Regulators, attorneys general and lawmakers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada continue to spring into action to try and unravel the events that led to the personal information for upwards
of 60
million Facebook
users leaking to a voter - profiling firm (
see Probes Begin as Facebook Slammed
by Data Leak Blowback).
Their investigation showed that only one
of their over 40
million users had
seen their data accessed
by this unknown hacker but that no «password, financial or payment information» had been revealed.
The resume is
seen by a hand - selected number
of people, but the LinkedIn profile can reach over 500 +
million users.