DigiKnow Epsiode 70

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Episode 70 features Amazon’s achievement as the Third Most Valuable Company and its plan to venture into banking. Also, Dropbox is going to public and will integrate G Suite Tools, Facebook’s new features and Googles plan to label all HTTPtes as “NOT Secure” and of course WeChat’s new milestone.

Featuring Andrew McCauley (@andymac71) and Will Hanke (@redcanoemedia)

Show Notes

Amazon

Amazon is Now Worth More Than Microsoft, Becomes the World’s Third Most Valuable Company
http://fortune.com/2018/02/15/amazon-microsoft-third-most-valuable-company/

Amazon Reportedly Wants to Venture into Banking
https://www.webpronews.com/amazon-reportedly-wants-venture-banking/

Dropbox

Dropbox Gets Ready to Go Public After Earning $1.1 Billion in Revenue for 2017
https://www.itbnews.info/2018/02/dropbox-gets-ready-to-go-public-after-earning-1-1-billion-in-revenue-for-2017/

Dropbox Announces Plans to Integrate Google G Suite Tools into Its Platform
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/01/dropbox-to-add-native-g-suite-integration-in-new-partnership-with-google/

Facebook

Facebook Pulled the Plug on Its Test of Separate News Feeds
https://hugethinking.com/post/facebook-pulled-the-plug-on-its-test-of-separate-news-feeds/

50+ More Publishers Will Soon Begin Testing Facebook’s Breaking News Tag
https://marketingland.com/facebook-opens-breaking-news-label-50-publishers-north-america-latin-america-europe-australia-235475

Facebook is Now Testing a Reddit-Like ‘Downvote’ Feature
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/02/09/facebook-tests-downvote-feature/

Google

Google Chrome Browser Will Label HTTP Sites as ‘Not Secure’ Come July
https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-chrome-will-start-labelling-all-http-sites-as-not-secure-from-july-1810641

Google Chrome’s New Adblocker is Now in Effect
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/14/how-chromes-built-in-ad-blocker-will-work-when-it-goes-live-tomorrow/

Google Rolls Out Hangouts Chat, Set to Compete with Slack and Microsoft Teams
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-hangouts/google-launches-slack-competitor-hangouts-chat-idUSKCN1GC2L8

Google Drive Update Will Use AI to Help Organize and Retrieve Shared Files
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/05/google-drive-getting-ai-powered-organization-shared-files/

Wechat

WeChat Reaches a New Milestone — 1 Billion Monthly Active Users
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-07/wechat-reaches-one-billion-monthly-users/9523278

Misc

2018 Will See Continued Decline in Facebook Use Among Teens
http://snip.ly/wjze0