Washington Post to require employees to be vaccinated
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The Washington Post will require all employees to provide proof that they have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 if they plan to return to the newspaper’s newsroom this fall. The
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Big Tech reporting strong quarterly results
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The big tech kicked off its earnings season with Apple, Alphabet and Microsoft all reporting very strong quarterly results. Google’s mother company Alphabet nearly tripled its net income to USD
Fin-tech Klarna aiming at social shopping growth
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Fin-tech Klarna, which became successful by providing the possibility of shopping payment by instalments, announced the acquisition of Swedish start-up APPRL, a SaaS platform that connects influencers to e-commerce retailers
Taboola bringing e-commerce recommendations to the open web
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Taboola, which helps companies advertise on some of the world’s most popular websites and apps, announced an acquisition to expand its reach further into e-commerce. The company is paying $800
Bye-bye noisy WhatsApp group chats!
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Even though we’re huge fans of WhatsApp, group chats on the popular messaging service can sometimes get seriously noisy. WhatsApp has added a new option to manage group chat threads,
Twitter’s new diversity data show gains in women representation
Twitter released its Inclusion & Diversity data for the first half of 2021, which show some progress regarding women representation in its global workforce and representation of under-represented communities in
A partnership to share stories of young people in STEM
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More girls are in school today than ever before, however they are particularly under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, and consequently in STEM careers. According to UNESCO’s
Tech giants take further action to tackle extremism
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter are going after white supremacist and far-right groups, as part of an expansion of their efforts to combat extremism and dangerous hate speech, the companies
Facebook makes new pledge to increase gender parity in patenting
Facebook has committed to a new initiative aimed at increasing diversity within its workforce as part of the Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference which is being held this week, aiming
WAN-IFRA awarding best European digital media
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WAN-IFRA has announced European Digital Media Awards 2021 with six of ten awarded media companies being Norwegian. These awards honour European news publishers who ”excel in their work and deliver