The Toronto Star's Martin Regg Cohn argues that the online arguments between Kathleen Wynne and Kevin O'Leary may help the former, by giving her a highly public exchange with a political opponent who can be proved wrong.

When [Kevin O’Leary] trash-talks Ontario, it’s music to [Kathleen Wynne's] well-worn ears - those ears having been bent out of ( Read more... )

There are many reasons to criticize the government of Ontario's Liberal premier, Kathleen Wynne. There are many ways to criticize her. The personal abuse described in Mike Crawley's CBC News report is not one of these ways.

The replies to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne on Twitter are not for the faint of heart ( Read more... )

The Financial Post shares Chris Graham's article from The Telegraph suggesting Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is trying to set up a political career for himself. Oh, why not?

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he is to spend 2017 travelling to every U.S. state he has not yet visited, in a personal challenge that is fuelling speculation he plans to ( Read more... )

I don't quite know how I happened getting in so deep with Facebook Editor. I have always been annoyed to find, whenever I've checked in on Facebook or Instagram to a particular location, that other people have assigned incorrect names to a particular location--misspellings, the wrong names, sometimes altogether the wrong information--so maybe it ( Read more... )

Bloomberg View's Adam Minter explains Facebook's desire to still get into China in the context of the mercurial policies of China's government towards different social networking platforms.

[T]he most revolutionary service was Tencent's WeChat, released in 2011. At first glance, it looked like just another social network and messaging service. Yet ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago, I had to reset the passwords on my different social networks. My E-mail had somehow become compromised, and my Facebook was briefly used to post spam in a single discussion group, so everything had to be changed, immediately.

I had to go to Facebook; I had to go to Livejournal, that site that started everything; Google+ and my ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the closure of Poland's frontier with Kaliningrad, looks at how Google is beating out Facebook in helping India get connected to the Internet, notes British arms makers' efforts to diversify beyond Europe and examines the United Kingdom's difficult negotiations to get out of the European Union, looks at the problems of investing in ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Sarah Frier reports. That Instagram is so tightly integrated with Facebook is, I'm sure, an added bonus for that social network.

Instagram passed 500 million users, and growth is accelerating as the photo sharing app clears a hurdle that has stalled competitors ( Read more... )

• The Atlantic notes the import of the assassination of the head of the Taliban.
• The BBC observes Spotify has more revenues, but is still not making money.
• Bloomberg suggests Brexit would embolden central European populists and slow down growth, and looks at Coca Cola's end of production in Venezuela.
• Bloomberg View suggests a new class of educated ( Read more... )

• The Inter Press Service suggests climate change is contributing to a severe drought in Nicaragua.
• Reuters notes China's plan to implement sanctions against North Korea.
• Atlas Obscura explores the now-defunct medium of vinyl movies.
• Science goes into detail about the findings that many pre-contact American populations did not survive conquest at all.
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