Facebook Apologizes for Translating Chinese President’s Name as ‘Mr Shithole’

Facebook claims that a “technical issue” in its system caused Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name to be translated to “Mr Shithole.”Photo: Lintao Zhang (Getty Images)Facebook has apologized for translating Chinese President Xi Jinping’s name as “Mr Shithole” on its platform during his visit to Myanmar this week. The company said the incident was due to…

Biden to Zuckerberg: You Wanna Go? Let’s Go You Cow-Handed Fussbudget!

Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images)Democratic presidential contender and former Vice President Joe Biden called the Silicon Valley set “creeps,” said that Facebook and “other platforms” should lose their Section 230 protections under the Communications Decency Act, and argued that Mark Zuckerberg should face lawsuits and possibly criminal charges over political ads smearing him in an…

How to Create a Voice Marketing Funnel With Alexa Flash Briefings

Looking for a unique way to increase your social media engagement? Have you considered gamifying an Alexa flash briefing? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a voice marketing funnel that increases social media reach and engagement. Using Voice Technology to Improve Social Media Engagement Voice technology is becoming increasingly prevalent with the explosion…

Why Sony is skipping E3 (again)

E3 is still an exciting show with an unmatched selection of press conferences and video game reveals. But it’s an expensive place to exhibit, which is partly why so many companies have moved their events to a location outside the Los Angeles Convention Center. EA’s sprawling Play event, for instance, takes place at the Hollywood…

America’s Most Powerful Woman Called Mark Zuckerberg a Crook. Facebook Has No Rebuttal

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, leaves after speaking at her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2020, in Washington, DC. Photo: Olivier Douliery (GettyShameful. Irresponsible. Accomplices.These are the words House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to describe Facebook and its executive board this week during one of the most…

Facebook Quietly Made a Ton of Updates Hours After Trump Got Impeached

Photo: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP (Getty)There are a few things Facebook’s proven, time and again, that it can’t get quite right—like keeping its user data under wraps, curbing partisan political ads, and, as proved this week, blogging. Truly though, you need to give props to the multibillion-dollar tech giant for perfecting the art of the well-timed news dump in…

Top Democrats go to war with Facebook

New York (CNN)A few years ago, then President Barack Obama was appearing at dinner and on stage with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Nancy Pelosi was heaping praise on COO Sheryl Sandberg for “inspiring women across the world to believe in themselves.” No…

In Paris, Ecommerce Warehouses Get a Chic Makeover

Paris is classy, so it calls the distribution centers “logistics hotels”—les hôtels logistiques.In France’s capital, as in other affluent cities around the globe, cheap or free “instant deliveries” from companies like Amazon, DPD, and Deliveroo have exploded in the last decade. French consumers make roughly 400 million internet purchases each year worth some $734 billion,…

Daily Crunch: NBCUniversal reveals its streaming plans

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. NBCU’s streaming service Peacock launches April 15 for Comcast subscribers, everyone else on July 15 NBCUniversal shared the details about its…

Facebook abandons plan to sell ads in WhatsApp

Facebook has reportedly abandoned efforts to sell ads inside WhatsApp, plans that resulted in co-founder Jan Koum leaving the group in 2018. According to the report: Facebook Inc. is backing away from efforts to sell ads in WhatsApp, in a retreat from a controversial plan that drove the creators of the popular messaging service to…

How to Leverage Online Communities to Grow Your Business

These three steps can help you use internet communities as a tool for growth. January 16, 2020 2 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At ClickFunnels’ annual Funnel Hacking Live conference, Emily Richett interviews Steve Shideler, CEO of Fan Shop HQ, to learn how he transformed two sports-related Facebook pages into…

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