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Taxing gatekeepers~II

Unlike conventional advertising, digital advertising increases impact by individualising ads while also reducing businesses’ advertising costs. Nobel Laureates Acemoglu and Johnson are not the first to suggest a tax on revenues from digital ads.

Taxing gatekeepers~I

By 2016-17, Facebook had designed a business model that aimed at maximising the ‘user engagement’, that is how much time users spent on their platform, and started collecting data on what they liked and shared.

WhatsApp to bring self-destructing messages soon: Report

In two beta versions, 2.20.83, as well as 2.20.84 of the app, the option to set self-destructing messages in private chats, was be found and one can choose the expiry period of the messages between one hour, one day, one week, one month or one year, GSMArena reported on Saturday.

COVID-19 patient shares her experience on Facebook

In the post, the Seattle-based woman named Elizabeth Schneider revealed how she contracted the virus, symptoms, immune system, precautions and misconceptions about it and the fact that she has now recovered.