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Feb 26, 2021 Twitter shares have surged more than 40% this month — and even briefly touched an all-time high — on optimism that the social-media platform may finally be getting its business strategy straight with new ventures designed to help it branch out and bring in different types of revenue. On Thursday, investors will hear more about these efforts from Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey at the company’s analyst day. As rosy as Dorsey’s presentation is likely to be, it’...

Why Is Everyone Talking About Clubhouse? Why Is Everyone Talking About Clubhouse? The new social media app is tapping into the publics desperate need to connect - and its becoming a flashpoint in the culture wars Kevin T. Dugan, provided by Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, two techies started a new social network built around an increasingly unloved feature of people’s iPhones: actually talking into it. The app, called Clubhouse, was at first ni...

Democratic Senators introduce new bill to remove Section 230 internet speech protections On February 5, three Democratic Party US Senators introduced legislation called the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism and Consumer Harms (SAFE TECH) Act, which would modify laws that provide internet companies with legal protections for content posted on their platforms by users. In a press release accompanying the draft legislation, US Senators Mark Warner of Virginia, Mazie Hiro...

Silicon Valleys safe space Cade Metz, New York Times Feb. 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE — Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, in New York, Jan. 7, 2017. The blog Slate Star Codex, written by a Bay Area psychiatrist, became the epicenter of a community called the Rationalists and a window into the psyche of many tech leaders. Then it disappeared. (Andrew White/The New York Times)Andrew White/NYT The website had a homely, almost slapdash design with a light blue banner and a strange na...

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.

For 15 years, Marcia Gagliardi has been one of the SF restaurant scenes biggest champions The food column, Tablehopper, turns 15 this month FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Marcia Gagliardi, shown in a closed restaurant and socially distanced from the photographer, is celebrating 15 years of writing her food e-column, Tablehopper.Mariah Tiffany/Special to SFGATEShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Marcia Gagliardi, right, poses with Nopa chef and co-owner Laurence Jossel with a bag of takeout. Gagliardi is celebra...

The social media major has acquired Revue for an undisclosed sum to help writers and long-form content curators to reach out to and grow their audience

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This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. After building audiences on social media, many influencers, reporters, and media companies have chosen text messaging as the next frontier to interact with fans. A slew of new startups and established players have emerged to serve them, including Community, Subtext, SimpleTexting (a division of MessageMedia), and Mailchimp, which announced it was acquiring a t...

Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history. Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, is more or less by accident the most successful independent journalist in America.Credit...Tristan Spinski for The New York Times Published Dec. 27, 2020Updated Dec. 30, 2020 Last...