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Twitter invests in ShareChat, an Indian social network for regional language users

Aug16
by on August 16, 2019 at 5:29 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, India


Twitter announced today it has invested an undisclosed amount into ShareChat, an Indian social media app for local languages. The company led the investment round of $100 million along with TrustBridge Partners, Shunwei Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SAIF Capital, India Quotient, and Morningside Venture Capital. ShareChat is a popular local language content app which has over 60 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) in India. The app has been downloaded over 100 million times and supports 15 languages, not counting English. This is Twitter’s first investment in an Indian startup. The company’s managing director for India, Manish Maheshwari, said the investment makes…

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Lobbying group takes out full-page ads to prove Beyond Meat’s veggie burger is unhealthy — but it’s not

Aug16
by on August 16, 2019 at 1:40 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Beyond Meat has taken the world by storm. Its signature “bleeding” burger manages to resemble that of real meat and has become a menu item at a number of restaurants, from TGI Friday to Carl’s Jr. — its competitor, Impossible Burger, just rolled out nationwide at Burger King. Perhaps feeling the pressure, a group called the Center for Consumer Freedom — a PR group that has done work food companies, restaurants, and other special interests (including the meat industry) — has taken out full-page ads in the New York Post and Wall Street Journal highlighting the chemical additives in the…

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Project Veritas and ‘whistle-blower’ published bullshit ‘data-leak’ to dox Google employees

Aug16
by on August 16, 2019 at 1:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Google, Opinion


Project Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the ‘bombshell’ that it’d obtained hundreds of leaked internal documents from a whistle-blower showing Google‘s bias against Conservatives. Unfortunately, as is almost always the case with Project Veritas, the claims are crap. As TNW’s Ravie Lakshmanan pointed out, the documents are probably authentic. I’ve pored over every single one in the document dump on Project Veritas’ website and it’s my opinion that almost all of them appear completely legitimate – the exception being screenshots of a Google employee’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, which I’m guessing were taken by the ‘whistle-blower,’ as…

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The iPhone 11 could launch September 10, according to an iOS 13 clue

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by on August 16, 2019 at 12:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Shortly after Apple launched iOS developer beta 7 today, sleuths found some interesting tidbits potentially pertaining to the iPhone 11. Specifically, Brazillian site iHelp BR noticed the beta contains an image of the home screen with a calendar date set to Tuesday the 10th – presumably in September. While a random date on a hidden image may not seem like much to go on, it corroborates previous rumors about the iPhone 11’s launch and lines up with previous early-September iPhone launches. As 9to5Mac notes, Apple tends to launch announce iPhones on the second Tuesday or Wednesday of September; a quick search…

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