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Tuck shop 2.0: How to promote positive entrepreneurship skills for teens

The Next Web

The movie “The Social Network” introduced the general public to how many entrepreneurs start young – building multi-billion-dollar businesses while still at university. Joe Mathewson is cofounder of learning platform Firefly, working with nearly 300 schools around the world. This youthful enterprise need not be confined to the States.

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Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok

TechSpot

The new study comes from Common Sense Media and the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital (via Insider). It tracked the screen time of 203 Android users – Apple doesn't share this type of data with researchers – aged 11 to 17 for nine days via an app. Read Entire Article

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A teen is reportedly the mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking group

The Verge

The teenager is apparently based about five miles outside of Oxford University, and Bloomberg says it was able to speak to his mother for ten minutes through a “doorbell intercom system” at the home. The teenager’s mother told the publication she did not know of allegations against him.

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Watch what this group of teens did for their community. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S. Join us in telling him this is unacceptable!

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Netflix drops trailer for the Russo brothers’ The Electric State

Ars Technica

Paragraphs of text, accompanied by larger artworks, tell the story of a teen girl named Michelle who must travel across the country with her robot companion to find her long-lost brother, while being pursued by a federal agent.

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Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

TechCrunch

A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more. Image Credits: Tagg.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

TechCrunch

Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. There are many universities that don’t have the best branding.

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