Amazon suddenly announced in recent days that it will close its Chinese website amazon.cn and its official app store in China on July 17, without giving any reason. Observers believe that it signals the U.S. e-commerce giant’s complete retreat from China and the Chinese regime’s further uncoupling from the West. In an email sent to…

Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is criticizing social media platform LinkedIn for allegedly interfering with a presidential election as it locked his account over comments he made about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Biden administration, and climate change. “If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone. It’s remarkable that…

Employment platform LinkedIn has announced it is slashing hundreds of jobs and phasing out its app in China as part of a “streamlining” process amid declining revenue. Ruiqi Chen, editor at LinkedIn News, announced the move on May 8, noting that the platform plans to reduce roles across its sales, operations, and support teams. LinkedIn will also…

Commentary From the beginning of the COVID panic, it felt that something was very wrong. Never had a pandemic, much less a seasonal pathogenic wave, been treated as a quasi-military emergency requiring the upending of all freedoms and rights. What made it more bizarre was how alone those of us who objected felt until very…

LinkedIn ran undisclosed social experiments on more than 20 million users for five years, testing the importance of weak associations or acquaintances in the process of positively affecting an individual’s job mobility. “The authors analyzed data from multiple large-scale randomized experiments on LinkedIn’s People You May Know algorithm, which recommends new connections to LinkedIn members,…

Microsoft Corp’s LinkedIn said that its app and website were functional after a brief interruption on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, nearly 15,000 users had reported issues with the social networking service, according to Downdetector. “Pardon us. If you were having trouble viewing LinkedIn today, we’re back in action,” LinkedIn said in a tweet. Downdetector…

We’re all “publishers” now, thanks to the ease of using social media platforms to instantly share content. With that in mind, here are a few tips to ensure that your audience happily and eagerly continues to come back for more. Watch Your Spelling One of the fastest ways to create a negative impression online is…

FBI special agent Sean Ragan has said that cryptocurrency investment scammers on Microsoft Corporation’s social networking platform LinkedIn are a significant threat to the platform and consumers. According to an exclusive interview with CNBC, Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento, said that crypto-related fraudulent activities on LinkedIn are becoming more…

We have just left the month of January. January was named after the Roman god Janus, who had two heads: one looking forward, which meant that he was the god of new beginnings, and one looking backward, which meant he was a god of wisdom. Because, of course, we need to learn from what has…

Commentary Just a few days ago, I linked to an epic article in the history of the pandemic response. It was posted April 10, 2020, less than a month after lockdowns. The legendary Harvard epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, whose impeccable academic record includes writing statistical packages used the world over to assess vaccine safety, could not find…