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LinkedIn, the professional social network Microsoft purchased back in 2016 is reportedly getting ready to enter the market of freelancer platforms currently dominated by Upwork and Fiverr. According to a new report from The Information, LinkedIn’s new platform will be named Marketplaces and could launch as soon as September. LinkedIn is the largest professional social network with over 740 million members in more than 200 countries, with more than 260 million monthly active users. It makes sense for Microsoft to help LinkedIn members get in touch with freelancers, especially at a moment when the gig economy is on the rise due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Suzi Owens, a LinkedIn spokesperson told The Information that the platform saw an increase in people searching for LinkedIn members with “open for business” in their profiles. In the future we’ll be building new ways to share more about the services you offer directly through your LinkedIn profile,” Owens said. According to the report, LinkedIn has been working on its new Marketplaces platform since fall 2019, and it could replace LinkedIn’s existing Profinder Feature. The new platform should bring more revenue to LinkedIn by taking a cut on transactions, similar to how Upwork…

TV maker Vestel will bring live streaming app Twitch to its smart TVs across Europe. The free app will be available to any Vestel-manufactured smart TV that have been produced from June 2018 onwards. This includes sets designed for brands including Hitachi, JVC, Telefunken and Techwood, many of which have a dedicated Twitch button on the TV’s remote. Barış Altınkaya, Deputy General Manager of Marketing and Product Management, Vestel, said: “We are extremely proud to be able to launch Twitch on our Smart TVs. With this addition to our app line-up, we can connect everyone at home to an endless library of live entertainment that covers everything from games, sports, and travel to cooking and talk shows. Whatever their interests, thanks to this app collaboration, we can offer viewers more of the content they love, whilst also maximising their Twitch viewing experience with cutting-edge, big-screen TVs.”  Sajjad Rehman, Director of Business Development at Twitch said: “Twitch is first and foremost a community which comes together to experience live entertainment, based on their passions and fuelled by interactivity. And there is no more important community than a family. Bringing Twitch into the living room through the Vestel TV’s will make it…

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CANBERRA (Reuters) - Facebook said on Tuesday it would restore Australian news pages after negotiating changes with the government to a proposed law that forces tech giants to pay for media content displayed on their platforms.FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationThe standoff between the Canberra government and the tech giant has been closely watched by other countries, which are considering whether to follow Australia’s lead in challenging big technology firms’ dominance in the news content market.AMENDMENTSThe deal came as Australia agreed a series of changes to the original legislation.Australia’s treasurer will now consider whether a digital platform has made a “significant contribution to the sustainability of the Australian news industry through reaching commercial agreements with news media businesses” when deciding whether to apply the proposed law to Facebook or Google.A two-month mediation period has been inserted into the code. This, Australia said, would allow more time to broker agreements before they are forced to enter a binding final offer arbitration process.Australia will tweak the final offer arbitration process to ensure that mediation is first sought.THE END OF THE STANDOFF?Australia says the amendments will encourage Facebook…

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After a whistleblower complained that Coca-Cola was asking its employees to engage in diversity training offered by LinkedIn Education that encouraged them to "try to be less white," the social media firm has removed the program."The Confronting Racism course featuring Robin DiAngelo is no longer available in our course library, at the request of the 3rd party content provider we licensed this content from," LinkedIn vice president of corporate communications Nicole Leverich told Newsweek in an email on Monday."We provide a wide variety of learning content, including more than 270 courses on the topics of diversity, inclusion and belonging," Leverich said. "We will continue to add new courses to help people learn the skills they need to be more successful in their career, including the foundational skills we all need to be effective allies and help build a more equitable future."Coca-Cola has been criticized on social media since Friday when Karlyn Borysenko, who is an organizational psychologist and YouTube commentator, tweeted screenshots of the LinkedIn course.Borysenko received the tip from whistleblowers at Coca-Cola who said employees were "required" to take the online course, though other companies were similarly asking their staff to engage in the course, as well."The real story…

Maharashtra Lockdown News: A morphed screenshot carrying the logo of TV9 Marathi channel and Uddhav Thackeray is going viral on social media platforms falsely claiming that the Maharashtra chief minister has announced a 15-day strict lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus cases.  Netizens shared the screenshot of the false news bulletin on Facebook, Whatsapp, and Twitter. However, when we conducted a fact check, the viral post turned out to be fake. Also Read - Is Lockdown Necessary in Mumbai? Read What Experts Say CLAIM: After a sudden spike in coronavirus cases, CM Thackeray has announced a 15-day strict lockdown in the state from March 1. Also Read - Lockdown Imposed in THESE Districts of Maharashtra | Check FULL LIST HERE FACT: Nothing of this sort has been announced by the Maha Vikas Aghadi government as yet. Also Read - Delhi Metro, Public Buses to Run on Limited Capacity as Coronavirus Cases Rise Again This comes days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray asked people to follow ‘COVID-appropriate’ behaviour and safety norms, and said he would observe the situation for a week to 15 days and then decide whether to impose another lockdown. Last month, a document was going viral on…

Facebook-owned WhatsApp had a pretty horrid first month this year. Their attempt to make people agree to their new terms and conditions or stop using WhatsApp was not well received, to say the least. WhatsApp figures that people were not happy with the somewhat rude language they used in their earlier notice, so they are trying again. They are probably right. The wording of their original notice couldn’t have been more arrogant. They basically said, agree to our new spying terms or stop using our App by February, yours truly, the smug crew at Facebook. I was pretty nettled by the language alone and that annoyance, it turns out, was shared by a lot of people. Now WhatsApp wants to use a softer approach to coax people into giving it the permission to spy on them. So has WhatsApp made any changes to the changes they wanted to make back in January? No, they are just praying that their new phrasing which uses a lot more words and confusing legalise is going to be enough to fool people into just tapping that Agree button. In January there were also a lot of conspiracy theories that hurt WhatsApp’s attempt to make…

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