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| November 8 · Issue #113 · View online |
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Hello and welcome to Pulse āĀ the weekly techie/businessy newsletter fromĀ @perspectiveix. Iām your host, Ben, and Iām sending you this Pulse in the middle of my moving-in day ā in the middle of a pandemic!
You see, instead of helping my wife, Iām writing this (she insisted)ā¦ You and Pulse mean this much to both me - and her! JK! Teach them, please! Now, letās get down to business!
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Fortnite offering free Disney+ [link], Facebookās antitrust seems pretty close [link], and Virgin Galacticās first spaceflight [link]
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Twitter against violence & lies, Netflix TV, and iPhone 13 ā already! [link]
- Earnings, Facebook fighting disinfo, and New emojis [link]
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Election, Laws, and Lockdowns [link]
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Instagram messing with voters, Spotifyās independence, and Amazonās new boxes [link]
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Baby Shark, TikTokās new deal, and One more thing [link]
- Election hacks, Facebookās special conservative treatment, and Huaweiās chips [link]
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Whatever you do, donāt do it alone - Credit: Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash
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India overtakes US as Snapchat's top market for downloads
It took 15 months (from May 2019 to July 2020) for India to go from the #6 market, representing 4% of Snapchatās downloads, to the #1 market, representing 20% of its downloads. That lead has been increasing as October 2020 saw India represent 32% of Snapchatās downloads. Over the past 18 months, Snapchatās new user acquisition has become increasingly top heavy. India + the United States now make up 50% of the appās new users.
and now that youāre reading about snapchat, feel free to add me: perspectiveix ā iām pretty active. also, i made a lens thatās gone pretty viral and on its way to 1 MILLION views ā and iām like š¤Æ you can try it here and see my other lenses here.
now back to more stats š
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App Downloads and Spending Continued to Climb in Q3
Global consumer spending on Appleās App Store and Google Play grew by 32% YoY in Q3 2020 to reach $29.3 billion, per data from Sensor Tower Store Intelligence. The faster-than-average growth in spending is thought to reflect the ongoing impact of COVID-19 along with consistent growth in adoption, globally.
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Uber Pivots to Food Delivery Amid Pandemic
Two days after scoring a big win on election day, when Californians passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure that exempts gig economy companies from a law that would require them to classify most of their workers as employees rather than contractors,Ā UberĀ reported its third quarter results on Thursday. While the company missed revenue expectations, as the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on its ride-hailing business, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said there were early signs that the companyās core mobility business would fully recover. The report once again highlighted the shift that Uberās business has been undergoing during this time of restricted mobility. The companyās food delivery segment continued to outperform its core ride-hailing business, as the latter saw gross bookings plummet by 75% in the first nine months of 2020 and the former just about doubled in size.
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BallerTODO: Ditch the list! Organise like a baller, get stuff done.
iām giving this a shot coz todo lists are not working well for meā¦
one of my favourite tools ā and itās super handyā¦ now with new features
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- TikTok is working on search filters [link]
- TikTok is working on the āMutualā tab to show the mutual connections [link]
- Instagram is working to natively support Rooms calls [link]
- GitHub is working on bulk notification management [link]
- Facebook is working on the Archived Chats folder in Messenger [link]
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Never disconnect from yourself to connect with others.
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The price of trying to make everyone else happy is making yourself miserable.
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i know this is my tweet ā and itās a little self-promotional ā but the quoteās from š and it really resonated with me; so š
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"impatience with actions; patience with results." ā @
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i did not make this, so apologies to the original creator ā i donāt even remember where i saved this from. sorry.
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pulse being prepared... remember this waiting for the next weekās issue... see ya!
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