Social Media and its influence

Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data as it could adversely affect the company’s trade secrets and i...

An Austrian group called Europe versus Facebook has so far made 22 complaints regarding the social network’s practices. In the process, the organization has stumbled upon an important tidbit:

Facebook says it is not required to give you a copy of some of your personal data if it deems doing so would adversely affect its trade secrets or intellectual property.

Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership,” says Google engineer.

A Google engineer wrote a brilliant memo that wound up being shared to the masses on Google+. The gist: Google doesn’t know a thing about platforms and that fact threatens its existence given that Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook understand them.