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STAT
⚡️ The average U.S. adult now spends more than 6 hours a day watching video, an 11 minute increase from Q4 2017. (Source: Nielsen)
INSIGHT
👶 How Alexa could be better at responding to toddlers: prs.pctvix.co/2Ok92p4
OTHER NEWS
😶 Snapchat monitors Infowars as Alex Jones promotes “Censorship” gag AR filter: t.me/iXNews/31102
🤖 This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo: t.me/iXNews/31103
🚕 New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft: t.me/iXNews/31110
🍻 Heineken is still worried about Snapchat’s age-gating policies: prs.pctvix.co/2KDtT4F
🌽 Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think: t.me/iXNews/31113
🐠 Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data: t.me/iXNews/31122 | 📺 Watch Live: prs.pctvix.co/2KGArzz
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STAT
⚡️ The average U.S. adult now spends more than 6 hours a day watching video, an 11 minute increase from Q4 2017. (Source: Nielsen)
INSIGHT
👶 How Alexa could be better at responding to toddlers: prs.pctvix.co/2Ok92p4
OTHER NEWS
😶 Snapchat monitors Infowars as Alex Jones promotes “Censorship” gag AR filter: t.me/iXNews/31102
🤖 This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo: t.me/iXNews/31103
🚕 New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft: t.me/iXNews/31110
🍻 Heineken is still worried about Snapchat’s age-gating policies: prs.pctvix.co/2KDtT4F
🌽 Your vegetables are going to be picked by robots sooner than you think: t.me/iXNews/31113
🐠 Microsoft’s undersea data center now has a webcam with fish swimming past 27.6 petabytes of data: t.me/iXNews/31122 | 📺 Watch Live: prs.pctvix.co/2KGArzz
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📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ The use of #ad and #sponsored posts on Instagram grew by 44% in the first six months of this year, compared to the same time frame in 2017. (Source: Buzzoole via TheDrum)
INSIGHT
🎙 Reddit CTO On Fake News, QAnon, Harassment, And Running 'The Front Page Of The Internet': prs.pctvix.co/2On1e63
OTHER NEWS
💸 Facebook now deletes posts that financially endanger/trick people: t.me/iXNews/31198
👫 Emoji couples might come in 55 gender and skin tone combinations next year: t.me/iXNews/31209
🤳 Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs: t.me/iXNews/31145
🤮 New Panasonic device sucks up your shoe smells, if you have five hours: t.me/iXNews/31144
EXTRA: Samsung
📱 Samsung Galaxy Note 9: t.me/iXNews/31156
🔈 Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby smart assistant: t.me/iXNews/31169
⌚️ New Galaxy Watch: t.me/iXNews/31163
✏️ New and more powerful S-Pen: t.me/iXNews/31157
🎶 Spotify as its go-to music partner: t.me/iXNews/31175
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STAT
⚡️ The use of #ad and #sponsored posts on Instagram grew by 44% in the first six months of this year, compared to the same time frame in 2017. (Source: Buzzoole via TheDrum)
INSIGHT
🎙 Reddit CTO On Fake News, QAnon, Harassment, And Running 'The Front Page Of The Internet': prs.pctvix.co/2On1e63
OTHER NEWS
💸 Facebook now deletes posts that financially endanger/trick people: t.me/iXNews/31198
👫 Emoji couples might come in 55 gender and skin tone combinations next year: t.me/iXNews/31209
🤳 Google launches Cameos, a video Q&A app aimed at celebs: t.me/iXNews/31145
🤮 New Panasonic device sucks up your shoe smells, if you have five hours: t.me/iXNews/31144
EXTRA: Samsung
📱 Samsung Galaxy Note 9: t.me/iXNews/31156
🔈 Galaxy Home speaker with Bixby smart assistant: t.me/iXNews/31169
⌚️ New Galaxy Watch: t.me/iXNews/31163
✏️ New and more powerful S-Pen: t.me/iXNews/31157
🎶 Spotify as its go-to music partner: t.me/iXNews/31175
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📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ Mobile search is still Google’s kingpin. For the second-quarter of 2018, Alphabet’s total revenue was $32.7 billion with mobile search leading the way. That’s up 26% from the year prior. (Source: Alphabet)
INSIGHT
🤖 What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Oxexkt
OTHER NEWS
🚫 Amazon to be told to ditch 'guaranteed next-day delivery' claim: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OxWoTG
🤳 With news-feed user growth slowing, Facebook revs its pitch for Instagram Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31313
😂 Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it: https://t.me/iXNews/31304
👻 Snapchat expands Shoppable AR to its top creators: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OAr8DF
😬 The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet: https://t.me/iXNews/31315
😮 The Turkish lira is so volatile it’s making Bitcoin look tame by comparison: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KKWEw5
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STAT
⚡️ Mobile search is still Google’s kingpin. For the second-quarter of 2018, Alphabet’s total revenue was $32.7 billion with mobile search leading the way. That’s up 26% from the year prior. (Source: Alphabet)
INSIGHT
🤖 What stands in the way of all-powerful AI isn’t a lack of smarts: it’s that computers can’t have needs, cravings or desires: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Oxexkt
OTHER NEWS
🚫 Amazon to be told to ditch 'guaranteed next-day delivery' claim: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OxWoTG
🤳 With news-feed user growth slowing, Facebook revs its pitch for Instagram Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31313
😂 Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it: https://t.me/iXNews/31304
👻 Snapchat expands Shoppable AR to its top creators: https://prs.pctvix.co/2OAr8DF
😬 The DNC’s lawyers subpoena WikiLeaks with a tweet: https://t.me/iXNews/31315
😮 The Turkish lira is so volatile it’s making Bitcoin look tame by comparison: https://prs.pctvix.co/2KKWEw5
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📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ In a recent survey of 595 VR and AR professionals, 24% reported strong sales in the enterprise market but only 18% showed strong sales in the consumer market. When asked about the barriers to entry, 52% said a lack of content is the biggest barrier, although this is down from 62% the previous year. (Source: VR Intelligence & SuperData)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MneaLU
OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook joins forces with LaLiga 🇪🇸 to livestream matches in the Indian 🇮🇳 subcontinent: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mk2Joj
👻 How IGN is using Fortnite and Marvel to grow on Snapchat Discover: https://t.me/iXNews/31386
📉 Ethereum’s falling price splits the crypto community: https://t.me/iXNews/31380
🤔 The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control: https://t.me/iXNews/31376
🇸🇦 In the Tesla drama, Saudi Arabia reminds Silicon Valley of its weight: https://t.me/iXNews/31372
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STAT
⚡️ In a recent survey of 595 VR and AR professionals, 24% reported strong sales in the enterprise market but only 18% showed strong sales in the consumer market. When asked about the barriers to entry, 52% said a lack of content is the biggest barrier, although this is down from 62% the previous year. (Source: VR Intelligence & SuperData)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MneaLU
OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook joins forces with LaLiga 🇪🇸 to livestream matches in the Indian 🇮🇳 subcontinent: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mk2Joj
👻 How IGN is using Fortnite and Marvel to grow on Snapchat Discover: https://t.me/iXNews/31386
📉 Ethereum’s falling price splits the crypto community: https://t.me/iXNews/31380
🤔 The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control: https://t.me/iXNews/31376
🇸🇦 In the Tesla drama, Saudi Arabia reminds Silicon Valley of its weight: https://t.me/iXNews/31372
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Telegraph
🧓 Shock of the old
It struck me yesterday that I haven’t started using a new app or piece of technology in months. This is highly unusual for me, and it’s got me wondering – have I changed or have the kinds of tech I need in life just become more stable? I’ve noted before in…
📰 #iXDailyBrief
STAT
⚡️ Nearly half of over 65s in Great Britain are now shopping online. The percentage of over 65s using the internet to shop has trebled since 2008, rising from just 16% to 48% in 2018. (Source: Office for National Statistics)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGAGl6
OTHER NEWS
🗣 New Apple patent hints that Siri could offer multiuser support: https://t.me/iXNews/31406
😑 Apple's Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September: https://t.me/iXNews/31410
5️⃣ Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019: https://t.me/iXNews/31433
👩⚕️ Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health: https://t.me/iXNews/31434
💰 Square Cash expands bitcoin support to all 50 US states: https://t.me/iXNews/31446
👹 Instagram published a note about the recent jump in the number of hacked accounts: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGDizq
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STAT
⚡️ Nearly half of over 65s in Great Britain are now shopping online. The percentage of over 65s using the internet to shop has trebled since 2008, rising from just 16% to 48% in 2018. (Source: Office for National Statistics)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGAGl6
OTHER NEWS
🗣 New Apple patent hints that Siri could offer multiuser support: https://t.me/iXNews/31406
😑 Apple's Group FaceTime isn’t arriving in September: https://t.me/iXNews/31410
5️⃣ Sprint and LG will release a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019: https://t.me/iXNews/31433
👩⚕️ Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health: https://t.me/iXNews/31434
💰 Square Cash expands bitcoin support to all 50 US states: https://t.me/iXNews/31446
👹 Instagram published a note about the recent jump in the number of hacked accounts: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nGDizq
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Telegraph
🤔 What’s the deal with HQ Trivia’s VC funding?
I wasn’t surprised to see that HQ Trivia’s user numbers are spiraling downwards. It was always going to be a fad. But the real question is how did the company behind this briefly mega-popular online quiz raise VC funding at all? HQ Trivia is largely a content…
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STAT
⚡️ The influencer marketing space is currently valued at £3.9bn globally. 54% of that is being spent on A-list celebrities. Meanwhile millennials remain the most receptive generational audience, followed by Gen Z. (Source: Zine)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2wcX4WQ
OTHER NEWS
🗞 Google releases a searchable database of US political ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31535
🤦♀️ Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job: https://t.me/iXNews/31539
💸 Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows: https://t.me/iXNews/31540
🤔 Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries: https://t.me/iXNews/31549
💰 Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund: https://t.me/iXNews/31560
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STAT
⚡️ The influencer marketing space is currently valued at £3.9bn globally. 54% of that is being spent on A-list celebrities. Meanwhile millennials remain the most receptive generational audience, followed by Gen Z. (Source: Zine)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2wcX4WQ
OTHER NEWS
🗞 Google releases a searchable database of US political ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31535
🤦♀️ Motorola’s latest phone looks exactly like an iPhone X with a Huawei paint job: https://t.me/iXNews/31539
💸 Uber reportedly lost $891 million in the second quarter of 2018 as growth slows: https://t.me/iXNews/31540
🤔 Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries: https://t.me/iXNews/31549
💰 Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund: https://t.me/iXNews/31560
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Telegraph
🐦 A future for third-party Twitter apps
What now for third-party Twitter apps? Twitter is today switching off the APIs that let them offer a decent experience to their users. For an idea of just how much worse they’ll be as a result, here’s Tweetbot’s latest changelog
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STAT
⚡️ 60% of 16-24-year-olds claim to notice ads more if they deal with important issues, compared to 55% of 35-44-year-olds and 37% of those aged 45 and older. (Source: Channel 4)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MXnDXv
OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook secures deal to stream Champions League matches in Latin America: https://t.me/iXNews/31612
🏈 Adidas kicks off Twitter live streaming partnership with high school football: https://prs.pctvix.co/2waxfGR
💰 Coinbase now supports buying and selling Ethereum Classic: https://t.me/iXNews/31647
🤔 As demand for Instagram Stories ads heats up, some early adopters turn to Facebook Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31643
🚘 Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup: https://t.me/iXNews/31634
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STAT
⚡️ 60% of 16-24-year-olds claim to notice ads more if they deal with important issues, compared to 55% of 35-44-year-olds and 37% of those aged 45 and older. (Source: Channel 4)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MXnDXv
OTHER NEWS
⚽️ Facebook secures deal to stream Champions League matches in Latin America: https://t.me/iXNews/31612
🏈 Adidas kicks off Twitter live streaming partnership with high school football: https://prs.pctvix.co/2waxfGR
💰 Coinbase now supports buying and selling Ethereum Classic: https://t.me/iXNews/31647
🤔 As demand for Instagram Stories ads heats up, some early adopters turn to Facebook Stories: https://t.me/iXNews/31643
🚘 Update: New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup: https://t.me/iXNews/31634
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Telegraph
😑 We can’t know
A poll on Twitter has got me mulling our arrogance about the future. Entrepreneur Marshall Kirkpatrick tweeted: “Do you agree with people who say that empathy, problem solving, communication skills etc will be the key workplace skills in a more automated…
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STAT
⚡️ New research suggests that six second linear television ads can generate good levels of engagement. In this research, despite six second ads accounting for just 3%, they actually drove 6% of attention. Interestingly, six second ads generated more attention per second than 15 or 30 second ads. They also yielded higher attention per second among all age groups, with adults aged 35 and over paying slightly better attention to six second ads than younger consumers. (Source: Advertising Research Foundation (ARF))
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mym4Cj
OTHER NEWS
⏯ Netflix sets the record straight over plans to introduce ads: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MIgQ6O
🎰 Apple cracks down on gambling apps in China: https://t.me/iXNews/31756
🐦 Jack Dorsey admits Twitter hasn’t ‘figured out’ approach to fake news: https://t.me/iXNews/31739
🗣 A university is outfitting living spaces with thousands of Echo Dots: https://t.me/iXNews/31735
👨👩👦👦 LinkedIn set to launch redesigned Groups platform by end of August: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nTpxgK
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STAT
⚡️ New research suggests that six second linear television ads can generate good levels of engagement. In this research, despite six second ads accounting for just 3%, they actually drove 6% of attention. Interestingly, six second ads generated more attention per second than 15 or 30 second ads. They also yielded higher attention per second among all age groups, with adults aged 35 and over paying slightly better attention to six second ads than younger consumers. (Source: Advertising Research Foundation (ARF))
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2Mym4Cj
OTHER NEWS
⏯ Netflix sets the record straight over plans to introduce ads: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MIgQ6O
🎰 Apple cracks down on gambling apps in China: https://t.me/iXNews/31756
🐦 Jack Dorsey admits Twitter hasn’t ‘figured out’ approach to fake news: https://t.me/iXNews/31739
🗣 A university is outfitting living spaces with thousands of Echo Dots: https://t.me/iXNews/31735
👨👩👦👦 LinkedIn set to launch redesigned Groups platform by end of August: https://prs.pctvix.co/2nTpxgK
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Telegraph
🃏 A ‘boring’ problem still waiting to be solved
A ‘boring’ problem still waiting to be solved “Someone’s trying to solve business cards again,” I tweeted yesterday, much to the amusement of my Twitter followers. Apps that aim to replace business cards with a better way of exchanging contact information…
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STAT
⚡️ People Spent 85 Billion Hours In WhatsApp In The Past 3 Months (Versus 31 Billion In Facebook).
85 billion hours is a lot of time. It's 3.5 billion days, or over nine million years -- 9,582,650 years, to be exact. And it's 11.425 hours for every human being on the planet. (Source: Apptopia)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2woglF9
OTHER NEWS
🏛 Why Facebook needs a Supreme Court for content moderation: https://t.me/iXNews/31828
📺 Lifestyle publisher Stylist quits IGTV in favor of Apple News: https://t.me/iXNews/31818
🍕 Google created a fake pizza brand to test out creative strategies for YouTube ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31811
🎮 Amazon is ending its 20 percent Prime discount on video game preorders: https://t.me/iXNews/31803
🇻🇪 Venezuela ties its currency to a state-run cryptocoin: https://t.me/iXNews/31799
🚗 Tesla challenger Lucid Motors also in talks with Saudi Arabia for reported $1 billion funding: https://t.me/iXNews/31788
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STAT
⚡️ People Spent 85 Billion Hours In WhatsApp In The Past 3 Months (Versus 31 Billion In Facebook).
85 billion hours is a lot of time. It's 3.5 billion days, or over nine million years -- 9,582,650 years, to be exact. And it's 11.425 hours for every human being on the planet. (Source: Apptopia)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2woglF9
OTHER NEWS
🏛 Why Facebook needs a Supreme Court for content moderation: https://t.me/iXNews/31828
📺 Lifestyle publisher Stylist quits IGTV in favor of Apple News: https://t.me/iXNews/31818
🍕 Google created a fake pizza brand to test out creative strategies for YouTube ads: https://t.me/iXNews/31811
🎮 Amazon is ending its 20 percent Prime discount on video game preorders: https://t.me/iXNews/31803
🇻🇪 Venezuela ties its currency to a state-run cryptocoin: https://t.me/iXNews/31799
🚗 Tesla challenger Lucid Motors also in talks with Saudi Arabia for reported $1 billion funding: https://t.me/iXNews/31788
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Telegraph
🛴 Scooting into the emergency ward
BuzzFeed reports that US hospitals are seeing daily injuries through their doors as a result of the scooter boom there. In case it’s passed you by, scooters are a hit new mode of transport in a number of American cities. You book one with an app, and just…
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STAT
⚡️ Research involving 109,780 internet users, aged 16-64 in 42 countries, shows that 46% use social media to stay abreast of current affairs. Out of this group, 29% are people aged 24-35, while 22% are 35-44. (Source: GWI)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJN5Te
OTHER NEWS
📸 Instagram is testing Recommended Posts in the feed: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MLexzW
💸 Netflix is testing a payment feature to bypass Apple’s App Store fees: https://t.me/iXNews/31885
🗣 Snapchat Users Can Activate Face Effects Using Voice Commands: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MPpYa9
🤔 There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, Senator Ron Wyden says: https://t.me/iXNews/31929
⚖️ Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJnv0N
🎮 Excitement brewing: Snap about to launch a game platform for Snapchat: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MGAmRb
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STAT
⚡️ Research involving 109,780 internet users, aged 16-64 in 42 countries, shows that 46% use social media to stay abreast of current affairs. Out of this group, 29% are people aged 24-35, while 22% are 35-44. (Source: GWI)
INSIGHT
🧠 Today #BigThought by Martin Bryant: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJN5Te
OTHER NEWS
📸 Instagram is testing Recommended Posts in the feed: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MLexzW
💸 Netflix is testing a payment feature to bypass Apple’s App Store fees: https://t.me/iXNews/31885
🗣 Snapchat Users Can Activate Face Effects Using Voice Commands: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MPpYa9
🤔 There should be ‘consequences’ for platforms that don’t remove people like Alex Jones, Senator Ron Wyden says: https://t.me/iXNews/31929
⚖️ Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to one: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MJnv0N
🎮 Excitement brewing: Snap about to launch a game platform for Snapchat: https://prs.pctvix.co/2MGAmRb
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Telegraph
🦄 Death to unicorns. Please.
Work collaboration software company Slack is now worth $7.1bn. That’s following a $427m funding round. Just – please – don’t call it a ‘seven-times unicorn.’ In fact, let’s stop using 'unicorn’ at all – there are now too many $1bn+ companies for 'unicorn’…