অক্টোবর ১st, ২০১৭ by bdpress
Snap Inc, searching for ways to reinvigorate a slowing growth rate and increase advertising revenue for its Snapchat messaging app, said this week it has racked up 10 million users for its Discover news and video feature in France a year after launching there.
The figure, which has not previously been reported, is equivalent to about 15 per cent of the country’s population.
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The European Union on Thursday gave an ultimatum to Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies to rid their platforms of hate speech or face legal consequences.
The European Commission, EU’s top regulator, said the social media firms are still failing to act fast enough. It said it would pass laws allowing the EU to impose punishments on co...[Read more]
অক্টোবর ১st, ২০১৭ by bdpress
EU leaders will look to the bloc’s digital future at a summit in Tallinn on Friday, a day after debating wider plans unveiled by French president Emmanuel Macron to strengthen the union.
Macron is expected to seek to persuade sceptical counterparts to overhaul tax rules so that more of the profits from Silicon Valley giants like Facebook and Google fall into Europe’s public coffers.
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Nearly 2 million people logged onto Amazon.com for the online retailer’s first livestream of Thursday Night Football, the US National Football League said on Friday.
Some 1.9 million people tuned in to Amazon’s kickoff show and game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, according to the NFL. That compares to 2.3 million for the first digitally streamed game last year on Twitter In...
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BBC has reported that a portrait of Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been removed by Oxford University, where she was previously awarded an honorary degree, am...
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সেপ্টেম্বর ৩০th, ২০১৭ by bdpress
World Food Programme (WFP) will provide food assistance to 500,000 Rohingyas, who entered Bangladesh fleeing violence in Myanmar.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley announced the food support for Rohingya refugees when he met relief and disaster management minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya in a city hotel on Saturday, an official release said.
Secretary of the ministry Md Shah Ka...
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The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) have nabbed five members of a gang involved in duping retired persons and making off with their hard-earned savings.
At a press con...
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সেপ্টেম্বর ৩০th, ২০১৭ by bdpress
Russian government-controlled news agency Sputnik has said the Indian government has denied reports that it is interested in mediating between Myanmar and Bangladesh to resolve the R...
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