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Twitter Shut Down 235,000 Accounts Since February for Promoting Terrorism

August 24, 2016 Comments Off on Twitter Shut Down 235,000 Accounts Since February for Promoting Terrorism

HIGHLIGHTS 360,000 the total number of accounts sidelined since the middle of 2015 Tech titans have been enlisting software to battle extremist propaganda Getting quicker at identifying extremist content and shutting down accounts involved Twitter announced Thursday that it had cut off 235,000 accounts during the past six months in a heightened crackdown on use of the global messaging service ... Read More »

The market for tech IPOs hasn’t been this awful since the Great Recession

April 13, 2016 Comments Off on The market for tech IPOs hasn’t been this awful since the Great Recession

The US market for tech IPOs has totally frozen over. Zero Internet or tech companies went public on US exchanges in the first quarter of 2016. The last time that happened was in the first quarter of 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, according to data from Dealogic. Just two years ago, the picture looked quite different. In ... Read More »