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Zenly is still hugely popular, so why’s Snap shutting it down?

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Snapchat’s parent Snap became the latest tech company to announce a huge round of layoffs, confirming ongoing rumors yesterday that it was cutting 20% of its global workforce , affecting at least 1,200 people. There’s a map for that. It can be defined as a social app that revolves around a map.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. A new book, “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,” by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov , has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage.

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Daily Crunch: Ransomware group threatens to release Nvidia’s ‘most closely guarded secrets’

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Apple Maps is back to noting that Crimea is not part of Russia in most of the world; Microsoft is halting sales in the country ; Airbnb is suspending operations in Russia and the co-belligerent Belarus. In response? Russia blocked Facebook. Staying up to date. Preparing your team to interact with the code source.

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