Forget Apps : Web Browsers Are Internet Gatekeepers for the ‘Next Billion’
The people who have come aboard in the past few years are spending their time in something that was overshadowed long ago in developed countries by apps: the mobile web browser.

The number of internet users world-wide has roughly doubled in the past eight years to around 3.5 billion.
The people who have come aboard in the past few years are spending their time in something that was overshadowed long ago in developed countries by apps: the mobile web browser.
Single-purpose apps like Facebook and Snapchat are the product of markets where monthly data plans and home Wi-Fi are abundant. App stores require email addresses and credit cards, two things many new phone owners just don’t
Source: Web Browsers, Not Apps, Are Internet Gatekeepers for the ‘Next Billion’ – WSJ
Facebook unplugs Thai military propaganda

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Retail in the age of social media
E-commerce is becoming easier and faster, making it increasingly popular. Recently, Instagram introduced a shopping feature that allows users to purchase products within the app.

Social media is transforming retail and expanding the e-commerce world. It goes without saying that the presence of social media in any retail store is critical to its marketing and sales reach.
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It took Facebook a year to take concrete measures to rein in the appalling online hate machine that contributed to the systematic of massacre of Rohingyas initiated by Myanmar’s armed forces on 25 August 2017.

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