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Following the successful release of his posthumous album “Legends Never Die,” the late Juice WRLD rises significantly on the Global YouTube Artists Chart. Juice WRLD soars forty-five places to #12 on this week’s chart, which ranks artists based on total YouTube streams across official uploads and other eligible content. Juice WRLD registered 148 million such streams during the July 10-16 tracking period, topping last week’s mark by 158%. His top-performing songs for the week included “Come & Go (with Marshmello)” (14.9 million views), “Wishing Well” (12.5 million), and “Hate The Other Side (with Marshmello, featuring Polo G & The Kid Laroi)” (10.4 million). YouTube adds that his biggest audiences came from Chicago, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, and London.

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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Allowing millions of Brazilian users of Facebook’s (FB.O) WhatsApp to send money as easily as texts seemed a golden opportunity for the world’s largest social media company. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's Central Bank President Roberto Campos Neto speaks near Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes while leaving Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File PhotoThe ubiquitous messaging service was finally entering the financial services arena with a payment service in Latin America’s largest economy, after years of questions over how Facebook would make money from it. The June launch, years in the planning, was meant to be the pilot for a potential global rollout - but eight days after going live, the central bank pulled the plug on it. The shock decision underscores the challenge for Facebook in trying to win over financial regulators and the complexities facing watchdogs in assessing the risks of letting tech giants, with their vast network of users, loose in their world. In Brazil, it also raises questions about the communications around the launch. WhatsApp executives and central bank officials had held at least three meetings in the previous 21 months, including two in the week running up to the launch. In the first time he has spoken in detail about the decision, Central Bank President Roberto Campos Neto told Reuters the regulator had not determined how to deal with the proposed payment model - a new phenomenon in Brazil, which has no card money transfer service operated via an app. “Prior to the launch, there was a meeting in which WhatsApp kind of explained its plan, but the central bank was taken by surprise with the launch on June 15,” he said in an interview. The regulator - which said it never received a formal launch request - suspended…

Posted By: Staff July 16, 2020 @ 4:40 am Country Daypop Reba McEntire will air her Reba Live concert special for the first time on YouTube this Friday, July 17. Reba Live was filmed in 1994 at the Omaha Civic Center. The hour-long special initially aired on NBC in November 1994, and features Reba performing 12 songs, including “They Asked About You,” “Is There Life Out There,” “Walk On,” “Fancy” and more, as well as covers of Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” and Aretha Franklin’s “Respect.” The show also features Reba as “Flucy” in a special Thanksgiving-themed I Love Lucy spoof.  The special will premiere at 7 p.m. CT on July 17 via YouTube, with Reba celebrating with fans with a chat.  You can view the Reba Live trailer at the link: here Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On April 3, Terrence K. Williams, a politically conservative actor and comedian who’s been praised by President Donald Trump, assured his nearly 3 million followers on Facebook that Democrats would light ballots on fire or throw them away. Wearing a red “Keep America Great” hat, Williams declared, “If you mail in your vote, your vote will be in Barack Obama’s fireplace.” The video has been viewed more than 350,000 times. On May 8, Peggy Hubbard, a Navy veteran and police officer who this year sought the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, warned on Facebook that the country was heading toward civil war. “Your democracy, your freedom is being stripped away from you, and if you allow that then everything this country stood for, fought for, bled for is all in vain.” The cause? California’s recent expansion of voting by mail: “The only way you will be able to vote in the upcoming election in November is by mail only,” Hubbard said. The video has attracted more than 209,000 views. On June 27, Pamela Geller, an anti-Muslim activist with nearly 1.3 million followers, weighed in. “Mail-in ballots guarantee that the Democrats will commit voter fraud,” she said on Facebook. There’s no evidence for any of these statements. While California will mail absentee ballots to all registered voters, polling places will also be available. Voter fraud is exceedingly rare, including with mail-in ballots. A recent Washington Post analysis analyzed three states with all-mail elections — Colorado, Oregon and Washington — and found just 372 potential irregularities among 14.6 million votes, or 0.0025%. Facebook’s community standards ban “misrepresentation of who can vote, qualifications for voting, whether a…

Hadiqa Kiani's ode to Kashmir, a song released in collaboration with Turkish artist Ali Tolga has been taken off by Youtube. The singer took to Instagram to share the unfortunate news, revealing that they will stand determined against the forced silencing. "Our tribute to Kashmir was removed from YouTube a few hours ago," she posted. "There seems to be a systematic silencing taking place but we will not be silenced because our message is of love and peace." She also informed her followers that Kashmir Civitas, an international advocacy organisation devoted to the rights of the Kashmiris, was "actively working to re-upload the video." 'Daimi Bahar' featured visuals from both Turkey and Kashmir, including those of violence and protests that took place in the disputed territory.

Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin's Grand Canal district. Photo: PAThe European Union’s top court on Thursday found that a key framework used to transfer user data by technology giants to the US was invalid, ruling that it does not provide adequate privacy protection to EU citizens.The European Court of Justice nevertheless partially sided with Facebook (FB) by ruling in favour of key contracts used to transfer the data of the bloc’s citizens to other countries, even as it opened up the social media giant to further challenges and called into question their use for transfers to the US.The invalidation of the framework, known as the Privacy Shield, is a blow for the EU, which had hoped that the framework would afford EU citizens the protections outlined within the bloc’s charter of fundamental rights while still allowing data transfers to firms in the US.READ MORE: Apple wins appeal in top court against €13bn EU tax rulingThe core of the issue was on the contradiction between US law, which requires social media firms to hand over user data to national security agencies, and both the charter and the GDPR regulation, which give every EU citizen substantial data privacy rights.It covers about 5,000 US companies, including Facebook, Google (GOOG), and Twitter (TWTR), that handle the data of EU citizens.The European Court of Justice found that contracts known as standard contractual clauses — which are far more routinely used for data transfers than the Privacy Shield — were valid, however.But the court also outlined ways in which specific clauses could be struck down, ruling that such clauses are legal only if the data protections they promise can be assured under the laws of the countries where the data of EU citizens is sent. “Everyone is focusing on Facebook as a familiar household name, but in reality, this is…

Allu Arjun in Sarrainodu Tollywood super hit film Sarrainodu’s Hindi dubbed version has surpassed 300 million views on YouTube. It is reportedly the first Indian film to cross the 300 million mark on YouTube. The movie was a hit when it released in the theatres as well. The film stars T’town heartthrob Allu Arjun, Rakul Preet, Catherine Tresa and Aadhi Pinisetty. The movie originally released in 2016, and was helmed and written by Boyapati Srinu. Meanwhile, superstar Allu Arjun's fans showed their love for the film by tweeting and retweeting about it with the hashtag #Sarrainodu300MillionViews.  

Two days after the Cyber Crime Branch (CCB) of Tamil Nadu registered a case against Karuppar Koottam, a Tamil YouTube channel run by Periyarist-Dravidianist activists , police arrested M Senthil Vasan, one of the key members of the channel, on Wednesday evening.Surendra Natarajan, another prominent anchor of the channel, is said to have filed an anticipatory petition in Madras High Court to prevent his arrest.The police made the arrests based on complaints filed by RC Paul Kanakaraj, head of the state BJP Advocates’ division in Tamil Nadu, Vinoj P Selvam, BJP’s state youth wing leader, on behalf of BJP State vice president MN Raja.The complainants had sought immediate action against a video uploaded on the YouTube channel by Surendra Natarajan on Monday over vulgar remarks about Hindu deity Murugan and a prayer sung in his praise called ‘Kandha Sashti Kavacham’.The CCB registered a case under Sections 153, 153(A)(1)(a), 295(P), 505 (1)(b) and 505(2) of IPC on Monday.A video made by Karuppar Kootam (Black group/mob) ridiculing the holy Skanda Sashti Kavacham (a hymn to Lord Skanda, son of Lord Shiva, seeking his total protection) had left Tamil Hindus angry and upset.The Skanda Sashti Kavacham, made popular by siblings Soolamangalam Sisters Jayalakshmi and Rajalakshmi, is a hymn that resonates daily in the homes of Tamil Hindus. People recite the hymn seeking good health, fortune, and mental peace.The Karuppar Kootam has, in particular, ridiculed verses between 64 and 92. These verses seek from Lord Skanda protection of each part of the body from head to the toe.In one particular video, Karuppar Kootam, which enjoys the support of DMK-allied influential Periyarist ideologues like Suba Veerapandian, launched vulgar and misogynistic tirade against the devotional poetic verses seeking divine protection for organs of reproduction and excretion.Several Hindu groups have criticised the Karuppar Kootam video, saying it…

Read Article VideoMeet, a Made in India Video Conferencing Application, has announced the introduction of a new feature of Live Streaming webinars on Facebook and Youtube. This integration came as a result of a growing user base and feedback. The webinars once shared on social media platforms help the organizer garner higher views and shares.Dr. Ajay Data, Founder and CEO, Data Ingenious Global Ltd, the parent company for VideoMeet said, “Live Streaming is a popular and efficient tool for the promotion of webinars, and therefore it was integrated for our users. We are constantly improving our software. Our unique framework helps the user regulate their data consumption, unlike other virtual conferencing platforms.”VideoMeet has been progressing and serving lakhs of conference/webinar minutes every day. The organisation is based in Jaipur, Rajasthan, but plans to expand Pan India with priority touchpoints in four states — Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for uninterrupted video calling service to their users.VideoMeet was developed as an invitation to the Ministry of Electronics and IT’s Made in India Video Conferencing Challenge. The application was one of the top ten contenders and has received great appreciation from the officials. The competition by the Government of India was aimed to seek out an alternative to foreign applications.The platform promises full data security and complete privacy to every user with its end-to-end encryption. Some of the other unique features of the application are screen recording, screen share, music share, flip cameras, chat during video calls, etc. If you have an interesting article / experience / case study to share, please get in touch with us at Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now. Express Computer is one of India's most respected IT media brands and has been in publication for 24 years running. We cover…