BlueSky: the social media venture finding a new use for domain names
The social media company BlueSky–founded in 2019 by Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey–was initially a research initiative for Twitter to investigate the feasibility…
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Friend… or scam?
The Canadian Securities Association is warning its users that online scammers are turning to social media applications, particularly dating and relationship apps, to try to…
Facebook bought Meta domain from a Finnish legislator
When Facebook rebranded to Meta, it had to begin acquiring all of the “meta” domain names for its new internet presence. However, when the time…
Recent Slack and Facebook outages
The Verge has broken down the widespread outages reported on Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook VR sections of their business. Facebook issued an explanation for…
Beware Building Businesses on Social Media
With social media taking centre-stage in so many of our lives, it’s the perfect place to build a business, right? Well, not really. CIRA recently…
Global Survey results reveal growing distrust in internet media
The Canadian Press reports that a recent global survey has revealed that 90% of respondents have reported being fooled by a false news report at…