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Ryan Howard joins venture capital firm SeventySix Capital

14-05-2017 22:52

Ryan Howard, former Philadelphia Phillies player and Major League Baseball National League MVP, has joined SeventySix Capital, the Pennsylvania-based venture capital firm, as a partner.
Howard will help the group continue to develop its sports endeavors, as well as develop their portfolio companies.
“I have always had a passion for business and always wanted to pursue different things post-baseball,” Howard said. “We all hit it off and had that common goal of working with good,

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Free A Girl advert shows young girls playing with sex toys to highlight child prostitution

14-05-2017 13:50

An advert aiming to shock people into taking action against child prostitution has emerged, showing young girls innocently playing with sex toys.
It’s been released by Free a Girl, a Dutch organisation dedicated to freeing young girls from forced prostitution.
The advert opens with young girls, who are wearing animal masks, unboxing the toys and trying to guess what it is.
On girl suggests a wand and another pretends to use it as a rolling pin while one used it to brush her hair.
It then c

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Twitter’s director of product departs for BuzzFeed

14-05-2017 12:52

Jinen Kamdar, Twitter’s director of product for media tools, has left the social network to join BuzzFeed as vice president of product.
Kamdar has spent over seven years at Twitter. However, on making the leap from a tech company to a media one he said both have similar attributes.
“They think about everything in first principles. Because it’s a pure digital media play, they basically embraced the Internet and mobile and social in a way that is unrivaled in the media industry,&

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YouTube in spotlight for hosting cyber-attack guides

14-05-2017 12:06

YouTube has pulled channels and videos which offered guides on how to create and distribute ransomware, following the global cyber-attack earlier this week.
An investigation by The Sunday Times put a spotlight on the role the Google-owned video platform plays in promoting and selling ransomware.
It highlighted the “step-by-step guides” on how to build ransomware that are readily available on YouTube, as well as content which links to other websites where pe

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