Liberal Democrat Health spokesman, Norman Lamb, has called on the government to take urgent action over the crisis in social care funding. Spending has fallen by 9% in real terms over the past five years, with local government blaming cuts to their funding from central government.
Read More »Council tax rise for social care considered
Image copyright Keith Brofsky Local authorities could be allowed to make a further increase in council tax to pay for social care. Ministers in England are discussing ways to invest more money into care services for the elderly and disabled. Lib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb called for a cross-party …
Read More »Zenly lays out its plan to become a must-have social media app
French-based location sharing app Zenly hopes to be the next Snapchat and co-founder Antoine Martin came onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt London to talk about how it plans to get there. The original idea came from Foursquare check-ins but Zenly allows users to check-in and share their location with friends and family. Martin …
Read More »Fading anonymous social network Yik Yak is laying off most of its employees
Yik Yak, the once universally recognized anonymous social network that virally took over college campuses back in 2014, is planning to lay off a “significant” number of employees, first noted by The Verge. The company is said to be retaining mostly engineers as it notified its team of about 50 employees earlier …
Read More »Analysis of social media did a better job at predicting Trump’s win than the polls
Many of the polls forecasted an easy win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, but we now know their prediction models were flawed. While data scientists are scrambling to figure out what went wrong, a number of social media analytics firms are touting the fact that …
Read More »Kaspersky eyes launching a real-time back-up service for social media leavers
Veteran security firm Kaspersky Lab is looking at launching a real-time encrypted back-up service for social media users to store their data outside the walled garden of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google+. At this point it’s testing how much appetite there might be for such a service — launching a website …
Read More »The NFL will reportedly relax their social media rules so teams can post more GIFs and videos
About two months ago the NFL implemented a new social media policy that effectively banned teams from posting any video-based content during games. The backlash was tremendous, with fans and teams criticizing the NFL for negatively impacting fan’s social media experiences, especially during a TV ratings slump. But now it …
Read More »Microsoft goes big on social, acquires LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion
Microsoft has announced today that it will acquire LinkedIn for US$26.2 billion – or US$196 per share – in an all-cash deal. The move will allow Microsoft to leverage LinkedIn’s 433 million users to build out new services for enterprise, and drive engagement to its other enterprise cloud services like …
Read More »Syrian Electronic Army takes over Xbox social media accounts
A group purporting to be the Syrian Electronic Army – a hacking collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – has said taken over the social media profiles belonging to Xbox. This comes after another Microsoft-owned property, Skype, also had their social media profiles hijacked by the group. Images posted by …
Read More »Persona 5 New Information On Story, Characters, Dungeons, and Social Links Revealed
Persona 5 is due for release some time later this year- with its Summer 2016 release window rapidly approaching, Atlus have revealed some new information on the hotly anticipated PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 exclusive by revealing tons of new details about the game in an interview with Japan’s Persona Magazine …
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