Influencer marketing is the shiny new gem in the crown jewels of digital marketing. We have previously discussed the differences between traditional and influencer marketing, as well as the latter’s advantages in the ever-evolving digital landscape.
With the massive media buzz the South Korean series “Squid Game” has been getting, you would have to live under a rock to not know about it. It is so popular that a South Korean broadband firm has sued Netflix over the surge in network traffic.
To say that Covid has been a biological nightmare for the world is an understatement. In a bid to wake up from it, companies and investors have turned their attention to science, medicine and innovation—or simply, biotechnology. With vaccines and cures becoming the need of the hour, BioTech rose like never before.
In 2013, the then two-year-old Chloe Clems went viral as her hilarious side-eyeing expression made her into a beloved internet meme. In her meme avatar, little Chloe has ruled over the hearts of many a Twitter and Reddit enthusiast and has been dubbed the “Patron saint of Tumblr” by Buzzfeed.
Social media has become a part of our everyday lives. As of September 2021, the largest social media platform Facebook has over 2.89 billion active users monthly. With people across the world relying heavily on social media platforms, it is expected that some of them would exploit these platforms for negative purposes as well.
On September 17, 2021, the “Maker in China” SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Global Contest 2021 Grand Final was held in Guangzhou, China. MAD Gaze, a Cyberport incubatee specializing in augmented reality smart glasses, was declared the winner of the championship.
A week after crypto mining operations in China’s Sichuan province came to a halt, the country has now declared all crypto transactions illegal. On September 24, ten Chinese government agencies, including the central bank, made a statement saying that they would work closely to ensure a “high-pressure clampdown” on crypto trading.
Every year, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meets in a regular session, beginning on the third Tuesday of September at the UN headquarters in New York City. The platform brings together leaders from around the world to discuss specific issues through dedicated agenda items and adopt respective resolutions.
In its latest bid to strengthen surveillance, Singapore deployed two robots to police bad behavior in public places. According to the press release shared by the Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) of Singapore, the robots detected behavior such as the flouting of Covid-19 norms, smoking in prohibited areas, illegal hawking, improper parking of bicycles, and riding motorcycles on walking paths.
Understanding and accessing your legal rights has never been an easy task, be it for individuals, startups or non-profits. Legal jargon can be tough to decipher, particularly when you don’t have a law firm you can rely on to help you with legal research. Here’s where law tech can come into play.
When you think about art, what crosses your mind? Be it Van Gogh’s Starry Night or Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, when most people look at art, they try to think about what was going on in the artist’s mind when they created it. But what if the art you were looking at was not created by a person at all?
In 2020, over 240,000 people in the U.S. reported being victims of phishing. The second most commonly reported cybercrime was the non-delivery of products, followed by extortion. Cybercrimes are more rampant than ever. Recognizing that, 154 countries have enacted cybercrime legislation. Still, that has not deterred cybercriminals who steal information and money from vulnerable people and companies.
Twitter has been an important tool in any startup’s marketing arsenal; as such, the updates have brought about some excitement.The updates revolve around original content creation and aim to give users more security and control over their tweets.
On September 14, 2021, OpenSea, a popular NFT marketplace startup, admitted to insider trading on their website. The event is unprecedented in crypto history. Within 24 hours of the incident, the company had put in new employee policies to regulate trading on their platform. OpenSea’s insider trading incident highlights the fact that while the popularity of digital items is on the rise, so are cybercrimes that seek to make a profit at the expense of genuine creators and buyers.
On September 21, social network company Twitter announced that it would pay US$809.5 million to settle a shareholder’s class-action lawsuit. (Read more about that here!) The lawsuit is based on the claim that Twitter was misleading its investors on how people used its platform and how much its user base was growing.
The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically impacted many sectors of the world economy. One of the sectors that fell on its face was the supply chain.The pandemic and lockdown have resulted in businesses’ inefficiency in meeting unprecedented consumer demand across all product categories. Recently, Morten Engelstoft, Chief Executive at Maersk-owned APM Terminal, echoed a similar sentiment.
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