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Social platform Little Red Book is seeking a $6 billion valuation. The platform is reportedly in talks with investors to raise between $400 million and $500 million. It’s also worth mentioning that it has the backing of internet giants Alibaba and Tencent holdings.Xiaohongshu which means “little red book” has tried to release its app before now. The startup though has indicated that the app will be available for download to about 300 million users in app stores from July this year. It is also...

On Thursday, January 9, Block.One appointed Salah Zalatimo as the CEO for its decentralized media network Voice. As per the announcement, Zalatimo will join the company and his new role on January 20..@VoiceSocial_ welcomes @Salafel, former @Forbes global Chief Digital Officer as CEO. https://t.co/kjzR2Acnbr— block.one (@block_one_) January 9, 2020Previously, Salah Zalatimo was working as the chief digital officer for Forbes. He joined Forbes four years back in 2015 after the acquisition of...

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has decided to check if money can make people happy in this world. To test that, the Japanese billionaire gives away $9 million (or 1 billion yen) to his Twitter followers. 1000 randomly selected users who retweet the post below may become lucky.ZOZOTOWN新春セールが史上最速で取扱高100億円を先ほど突破！！日頃の感謝を込め、僕個人から100名様に100万円【総額1億円のお年玉】を現金でプレゼントします。応募方法は、僕をフォローいただいた上、このツイートをRTするだけ。受付は1/7まで。当選者には僕から直接DMします！ #月に行くならお年玉 pic.twitter.com/cKQfPPbOI3— Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) 前澤友作...

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his vision for 2030, but also a whole bunch of decade-end aims for his social media Goliath, including an extensive “opportunity” for Facebook to “decentralize” finance and business.He wrote in a post:“Over the next decade, we hope to build the commerce and payments tools so that every small business has easy access to the same technology that previously only big companies have had.”As the reader could further see, in this vision are included Instagram...

On Thursday, TON founders received an order to open their TON ICO documents to the investigators. The order came via a court filing by the U.S. regulator. Per the document:“Plaintiff respectfully moves to compel Defendants to answer questions and provide documents regarding the amounts, sources, and use of funds raised from investors in connection with the unregistered sale of securities at issue in this case.The requested bank records are highly relevant to the issues in dispute in this...

This follows YouTubes’ recent removal of Vitalik Buterin‘s “Roadmap” video as well. Sources say that a YouTube Spokesperson said that it had made “the wrong call”. Sources also say that the video-sharing giant said:“With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it’s brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it. We also offer uploaders the ability to appeal removals and we will re-review the...

Two days back, several crypto enthusiasts reported that YouTube has removed several crypto-related channels. The attack on these channels came without any prior warning as the video platform removed crypto videos suddenly.The crypto channel owners said that YouTube removed the videos flagging them as “harmful and dangerous”. Moreover, one of the channel owners said YouTube flagged his video as “sale of regulated goods”. It has turned out that YouTube has also not spared several informational...

A few days ago we reported about the YouTube crypto ban. It has turned out that the biggest video sharing platform moved, deleted or banned some videos related to crypto. Hell, it deleted the whole groups connected to it, as well as the users’ profiles.However, the force is strong in the crypto community and it has been proven once again. Just a day after it was reported YouTube removed what it said was “harmful or dangerous content”, the crypto community went wild. And, as we already...

Even though Google tracks Santa and seems to be very Christmas-like, it doesn’t seem to care for the crypto community at all. YouTube, the Google-owned video-sharing platform apparently started restricting or even deleting crypto-related videos or those who were flagged to be that way. Some crypto influencers even said their videos or even the whole channels were completely removed. The founder of Skill Incubator, a company that teaches valuable skills to help people thrive in today’s...

Social network Commun, a fork of Steemit—a decentralized social media network that looks like Reddit, which is created on Web3 technologies base, announced it has successfully launched its mainnet for online communities.The platform is composed of Decentralized Autonomous Communities (DAC) and it is made to act as a web, Android, and iOS portal. Through this, the users can assemble different interest-based forums and groups to share, read, watch, rank, and discuss content with others.Commun...