Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines the implications of the $150 million fine imposed on Twitter for data privacy violations by the U.S. FTC including diminishing user trust in the social media platform’s adherence to data privacy expectations and guidelines as well as how Elon Musk’s pending takeover could restore trust levels by taking the company private and making its codebase open source.
Instagram Starts Testing NFTs, The Latest Big Platform to Do So
Futurum Analyst in Residence Jared Klee analyzes the announcement of Instagram testing NFT and explores why many of the big platforms including Twitter and Shopify are doing likewise, how the companies will manage the tension between distributed NFTs and their centralized platforms, and how NFTs unlock a powerful new model for commerce.
What Twitter Going Private Could Mean for the Evolution of Social Media
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on what Elon Musk’s move to take Twitter private could mean to the underlying technology stack of social media platforms.
Square Becomes Block – What is Next for Jack Dorsey?
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcements from Square on its corporate rebranding — morphing from Square to Block — Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and where he sees Block focused in the months ahead.
Twitter Puts the Past Behind It and Moves Forward with Solid Growth
Futurum Research senior analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on Twitter’s Q3 earnings. Despite a one-off charge to settle a long-standing legal dispute, Twitter posted solid growth numbers and largely avoided the impact of iOS 14 security updates that have impacted other social media platforms.
Strike and Twitter Partner Up to Change Finance — Legacy Players Better Buckle Up
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the announcement this week of the partnership between remittance network provider Strike and Twitter. As the world of finance becomes increasingly disrupted by new entrants and cloud native players, the landscape just changed dramatically as a social network with over 300 million global users partners with an innovative fintech to disrupt the old guard of the likes of Visa, PayPal, Mastercard and Western Union.
Square Announces Afterpay Acquisition, Potentially Disrupting Everyone
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on payments provider Square’s acquisition of Buy-Now-Pay-Later leader Afterpay. With the landscape for payments and fintech being disrupted daily, this acquisition will disrupt everyone from the credit card providers, to banks, as well as the wider digital payments landscape.
It’s Apple Versus a Huge Swath of the Tech World and Apple is Winning
The feud between Apple and Facebook is heating up, as Apple turns its attention to protecting the privacy of its users and implementing aggressive measures to increase the bar for platforms to extract user data without their consent.
Leave Amazon out of Big Tech Regulation — it Doesn’t have a Monopoly
Calls for regulation have accelerated as Capitol Hill ramps up what it sees as anti-competitive behavior to widespread abuse of technology hurting privacy, security and democracy.
Google and Nokia Strike a Five-Year Cloud Deal
Google Cloud and Nokia strike a five-year cloud deal where Nokia plans to fully migrate its on-premise IT infrastructure to Google Cloud. This is a significant telecom win for Google and reaffirms the trend of the major cloud players’ focusing on industry verticals.
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