🎼 Does it matter to you if you're the FIRST of YOUR FRIENDS to discover a new music artist/group?
anonymous poll

I don't care – 49
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%

YES – 18
👍👍👍 23%

NO – 11
👍👍 14%

👥 78 people voted so far.

🔋 Wi-Charge

A long-range wireless charging system that charges your device wherever you are in the room. Range can be up to 10 meters indoors.

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​​💰 The largest buys of tech’s Big Five: a look at M&A deals

In startup land, the mandate is to get bought, go public or die trying.

And, as far as getting bought goes, one of tech’s Big Five could be a desirable acquirer. They have a lot of weight to throw around. #Alphabet (the parent company of #Google), #Amazon, #Apple, #Facebook and #Microsoft account for a titanic amount of market value — close to $3.9 trillion at time of writing.

The largest acquisition of each of the Big Five:
1. Apple: Beats Electronics ⇢ $3 Billion
2. Amazon: Whole Foods ⇢ $13.7 Billion
3. Alphabet: Motorola Mobility ⇢ $12.5 Billion
4. Microsoft: LinkedIn ⇢ $26.2 Billion
5. Facebook: WhatsApp ⇢ $19 Billion

The chart below shows the number of acquisitions made by members of tech’s Big Five from 2007 through 2017.

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STAT
⚡️ Millennials list music as their #1 passion, followed by food, fitness, fashion, sports and gaming. (Source: Spotify)

INSIGHT
👋 How to Find Your Earliest Users: prs.pctvix.co/2MepLKd

OTHER NEWS
📉 #Xiaomi posts $1.1B quarterly loss ahead of much-anticipated IPO: t.me/iXNews/27175

📊 How #Pinterest is wooing ad buyers with a consumer insights message: prs.pctvix.co/2JCknPk

👻 #Snapchat's low-end theory: prs.pctvix.co/2JxmxzW

🤳 Chinese city gets 'smartphone zombie' walkway: prs.pctvix.co/2JxXpsx

🤦‍♂️ #Facebook shared user details with firms after cutting developers' access: prs.pctvix.co/2t210bE

EXTRA
📺 Watch all of Recode’s interviews from Code 2018 (Evan Spiegel, Sheryl Sandberg, Daniel Ek, Dara Khosrowshahi and more): t.me/iXNews/27146

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​​📱 How Long Do You Have To Work To Afford An iPhone X?

The #iPhoneX had a price tag of $999 on launch day in November 2017 making it the most expensive version of the device ever manufactured. Most of the time it was even more expensive outside the U.S. due to sales and import taxes. Even though many feared the phone could flop due to that high price tag, Apple reported better than expected results for its second fiscal quarter in early May. The company is still firmly on course to surpass the trillion-dollar mark in market capitalization.

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​​❗️ Trump-Kim Summit on Twitter

#Twitter made a special emoji for the Trump-Kim summit. Trying to imagine a worse job in tech than designing a cute emoji to celebrate a murderous dictator!

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STAT
⚡️ 46% of millennials browse social media while streaming music. (Source: Spotify)

INSIGHT
😎 Why do we care so much about privacy? (via The New Yorker): prs.pctvix.co/2sOoDoM

OTHER NEWS
🎞 #Instagram plans June 20th launch event for long-form video hub: t.me/iXNews/27205

👻 Now #Snapchat lets you unsend messages like #Faceboook promised: t.me/iXNews/27227

🔇 Instagram is launching mute and 'You're All Caught Up' features: prs.pctvix.co/2sQ9zXE

⚽️ Spanish soccer app caught using microphone and GPS to snoop: t.me/iXNews/27279

🎮 All the biggest announcements and trailers from #Sony PlayStation at E3 2018: t.me/iXNews/27270

EXTRA
🤑 I wouldn't be surprised if spend on influencer marketing reaches INR 1,000 crore, says Kwan Entertainment founder: prs.pctvix.co/2MlltAJ

🇮🇳 The India Influence Report 2018 by Zefmo (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MjvvCz

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​​🗣 How Engagement With Social Media is Changing

Sharing and #SocialMedia are often seen as synonymous, but in today’s chart, we take a look at how sharing on social increasingly takes place alongside other, more “purposeful” activities. Internet users continue to share updates of their lives, but do it alongside research for content, work, and products to buy.

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😸 Clever!

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STAT
⚡️ For every £1 spent on influencers within the beauty industry in 2017, brands received an average return of £8.81. (Source: Celebrity Intelligence)

INSIGHT
🤯 Here Are 18 Things You Might Not Have Realized #Facebook Tracks About You: prs.pctvix.co/2t1KI2l

OTHER NEWS
🛍 #Instagram will now let you shop products through Stories: t.me/iXNews/27361

📈 #Twitter stock is at a three-year high. What is going on? t.me/iXNews/27401

🎮 The first #Fortnite World Cup with $100 million in prize money is happening in 2019: t.me/iXNews/27392

🍎 #Apple quietly banned developers from selling and sharing users’ contacts: t.me/iXNews/27375

🏛 Court approves merger of AT&T and Time Warner: t.me/iXNews/27371
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​​📈 Information Created Worldwide (in ZettaBytes)

2005 → 0.1 ZB
2010 → 2 ZB
2015 → 12 ZB
2020 → 47 ZB
2024 → 163 ZB

1 Terabyte = 1,024 Gigabytes.
1 Petabyte = 1,024 Terabytes.
1 Exabyte = 1,024 Petabytes.
1 Zettabyte = 1,024 Exabytes.

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STAT
⚡️ More than a third (37%) of UK consumers think Facebook does not care about its users. (Source: the7stars)

INSIGHT
🤳 How pro-eating disorder posts evade filters on #SocialMedia: prs.pctvix.co/2t2nQkf

OTHER NEWS
👍 #LinkedIn introduces Kudos: say thanks and show your appreciation: prs.pctvix.co/2sU1Rfg

⏯ #Reddit rolls out auto-play video ads for web and mobile: prs.pctvix.co/2sYfpWX

🍎 #Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting: prs.pctvix.co/2sWzltm

🍏 Apple will update #iOS to block police hacking tool: t.me/iXNews/27474

👻 At #Snapchat, Redrawing the Bounds of Reality: prs.pctvix.co/2sWZqID

EXTRA
🗞 Fewer people 'using Facebook for news': prs.pctvix.co/2sW5WPY

⬇️ Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018 (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2sRVdWL
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​​📰 Social Media & News

After a few years of relentless growth in the use of #SocialMedia for news, now, in many countries, growth has stopped or gone into reverse.

Taking the 🇺🇸 as an example, weekly social media use for news grew steadily from 27% in 2013 to a peak of 51% before falling back significantly this year to 45% (-6). To some extent this represents a readjustment after the social media frenzy around the Trump inauguration last year – but these patterns also exist elsewhere. In the 🇬🇧 usage grew from 20% in 2013 to 41% in 2017 before falling back. The decline in 🇧🇷 appears to have started in 2016.

Also, average news usage for #Facebook has fallen from 42% in 2016 to 36% today while other networks are stable or have been growing rapidly.

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STAT
⚡️ U.S. podcast ad revenue rose a whopping 87 percent in 2017 ($314 million) and is forecast to reach $659 million by 2020, a 110 percent growth from this year. (Source: IAB/PwC)

INSIGHT
💬 Encrypted messaging is not magic. It has limitations: prs.pctvix.co/2taJ4eF

OTHER NEWS
📸 #Instagram Stopped Notifying People When You Screenshot A Story: prs.pctvix.co/2t7DUjK

🔎 #LinkedIn is the hottest B2C social media platform in town (yes, I said B2C): prs.pctvix.co/2JMiTSQ

📚 Snap launches a developer platform to bring Snapchat’s camera and Bitmoji to other apps: t.me/iXNews/27504

🐦 #Twitter announces major updates for content discovery and real-time alerts: prs.pctvix.co/2tbYY8C

🏡 Finally! The 800 million ways #Facebook gets serious about local business: prs.pctvix.co/2JNmTm2

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​​💬 Heavy Social Media Users

How attitudes differ in line with the time people spend on #SocialMedia, and what this means for brand communication.

Heavy Users are 23% more likely than average to want to work and live abroad and agreement with this increases in line with time spent on social media.

Furthermore, they’re much more likely than Light/Non Users to have an interest in travel and cultures. This shows how inspirational platforms like #Instagram can be “eye-openers” to the world, different cultures and are especially important in the promotion of travel.

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😳 Umm... Why?

Why would calculator wanna manage phone calls!?

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​​🏆 How Prize Money Will Be Distributed At The World Cup

While the 32 teams involved in the FIFA World Cup will be aiming to go as far as possible and achieve success on the pitch, they will also be battling for a sizeable pot of prize money. Late last year, FIFA announced the amount of prize money available for the tournament in Russia and it's at record levels once again. Excluding the Club Benefit and Protection Programmes, prize money this year stands at $400 million, an increase on 2014's $358 million.

The following infographic provides an overview of how the performance-based prize money will be distributed. When Germany won the trophy in 2014, it was awarded $35 million. This year, the eventual winner in Russia will receive even more, $38 million. The runner-up will get $28 million while third place will receive $24 million.

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STAT
⚡️ 54% of people say playlists are replacing albums in their listening habits. (Source: DiMA)

INSIGHT
💸 Attention Economy: Dealing with Information Overload: prs.pctvix.co/2t78WJh

OTHER NEWS
⏳ First look at #Instagram’s self-policing Time Well Spent tool: t.me/iXNews/27652

🚫 #Facebook bans weapons accessories from being advertised to minors: t.me/iXNews/27669

⚽️ Paul Pogba owns the most influential Instagram account among Premier League players: prs.pctvix.co/2MxuUNA

🗺 #iOS12 will automatically share your iPhone location during 911 calls: t.me/iXNews/27678

💰 #Google makes $550M strategic investment in Chinese e-commerce firm JD: t.me/iXNews/27672

🇮🇳 Almost 1 million people 'testing' #WhatsApp payments service in India: prs.pctvix.co/2t6eaF8

EXTRA
⬇️ 2018 Annual Music Report by the Digital Music Alliance (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MCdqzZ

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🍰 Look & Taste

Dinara Kasko is a pioneering pastry chef who creates delicious edible sculptures using 3D-printed moulds.

#3DPrinting

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​​☠️ Music Piracy is Down More than 50% since 2013

Due to investments by DiMA’s members in creating licensed digital music services, consumers are able to legally access creative works with more ease than ever before.

Back in 2013, shortly after #Spotify’s launch in the US, music P2P penetration stood at 9.8 percent. At the end of 2017 streaming music revenues were four times larger than in 2013, while P2P penetration was less than half of its 2013 rate. Quite simply, streaming is taking away most of the incentive for piracy, pushing piracy to the margins.

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STAT
⚡️ 75% of executives say they've seen brands advertising alongside unsavoury or objectionable stories or videos (Source: Reuters)

INSIGHT
🏥 ‘Gaming disorder’ is officially recognized by the World Health Organization: t.me/iXNews/27733

OTHER NEWS
😐 #Amazon faces pressure to stop selling facial recognition to police: prs.pctvix.co/2MCn8SN

👻 Even Evan Spiegel’s wife Miranda Kerr hated the #Snapchat redesign: prs.pctvix.co/2MF9TRt

⛔️ Unilever stops working with digital media influencers who buy followers: prs.pctvix.co/2MFbxCf

🏩 Amazon launches an Alexa system for hotels: t.me/iXNews/27754

🔈 Alexa is coming to Spain 🇪🇸 and Italy 🇮🇹 later this year: t.me/iXNews/27757

🤖 What it’s like to watch an IBM #AI successfully debate humans: t.me/iXNews/27739

🎧 #YouTube rolls out its music subscription services to 12 more markets: t.me/iXNews/27706
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