Backlink: THE BL China’s state-owned media has recently invested in two short-form video social platforms, Kuaishou and Douyin. According to Straits Metropolis Daily, data from the Tianyancha platform on October 26 showed that Kuaishou had made a strategic financing, and that the investor was Beijing Radio & Television (BRTV).       […]

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  Backlink: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. saw its operating losses more than triple last year to above $7 billion as it spent heavily to continue its torrid growth, according to a financial report shared with employees that offers a rare look inside the private company’s closely guarded finances. […]

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  Backlink: THE BL A few days ago, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla, posted a poll on Twitter about the war between Russia and Ukraine. In the poll, Musk proposed ways to resolve the conflict. The tweet went viral and garnered over 2,400,ooo votes. For Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of the state-run Global […]

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  Backlink: CURIOSMOS Earlier this year, a Google engineer made headlines around the world when he claimed that Google’s most advanced Artificial Intelligence system laMDA was conscious and aware of its existence. The story went on for weeks, the engineer was put on administrative leave and eventually fired. Before he left Google, the story developed […]

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  Backlink: VISIONTIMES Author Ashley Carman summarized the scheme in a Sept. 26 Bloomberg article, “Each time a player taps on one of these fleeting in-game ads—and wins some virtual loot for doing so—a podcast episode begins downloading on their device.” “The podcast company, in turn, can claim the gamer as a new listener to its program […]

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  Backlink: REUTERS Alphabet Inc’s Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece, the company said on Thursday, giving a boost to the country’s efforts to become a world cloud computing hub. The deal is estimated to contribute some 2.2 billion euros ($2.13 billion) to Greece’s economic output and create some 20,000 jobs […]

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