Hello and welcome to our roundup of the latest and greatest from the world of digital and technology.
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- Facebook explores Favourites for ‘micro-sharing’, paying for Viewpoints, and adding additional brand safety whitelisting features
- In an M&A flurry, Paypal has bought browser deal plug-in honey (here’s why) and Ebay has offloaded StubHub to Viagogo
- UK regulator turns up the heat on ad tech over GDPR
- Verizon and Snap partner on 5G
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- Average daily active users interact with AR nearly 30 times per day. Snapchat offers tips to brands on how to get the most out of AR
- Top 1% of app publishers drive 80% of downloads
- How Tik Tok is attracting influencers (by paying them)
- Hip sneaker maker Allbirds has called Amazon out for selling ‘similar looking’ footwear at one-third the price but without the eco-creds
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- Tesla’s truck launch was a big hit on social media, no more than you would expect from a company that’s bootstrapping into a highly capital-intensive industry and using product design as a marketing tool
- The role of robots in Amazon’s 30 minute delivery goal
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- Inventor of the web, Tim Berner-Lee unveils a plan to save it
- Unleashing AI on AI to combat deepfakes
- Google looks to shed light on machine learning with Explainable AI