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By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A surge in the use of smartphones as the leading device for accessing online news and the growing influence of social media could lead to an uncertain financial future for news organizations worldwide, a think tank said on Tuesday. Many news outlets are struggling to profit from smartphone content as more people
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The “Free The Nipple” movement has regained steam after a teen in Iceland was taunted for showing a photo of her breasts to promote a “Free The Nipple” day at her college. The taunts reportedly triggered a viral surge of women tweeting pictures of their nipples to protest the sexualization of women’s bodies. (The below photos may be considered NSFW.)
» Read moreDove is working with Twitter to make the social platform a more hospitable place for women. They’ve teamed up to launch #SpeakBeautiful, a campaign encouraging women to be more positive when tweeting about beauty and body image. This announcement comes just weeks after Twitter CEO Dick Costolo acknowledged the platform’s issue with trolling and abuse, much of which is directed
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Two young women embroiled in an ongoing battle of online insults and put-downs try to explain the origins and rationale behind their feud. “To get back at Taylor,” Shayna says, “I’ve made it my personal mission to give Taylor a dose of her own medicine.” In the video above, Shayna, 21, runs through a list of things she says she
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In the age of the social network, there’s certainly such a thing as sharing too much. But when it comes to losing weight, sharing could be key. A new Northwestern University study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface found that those who actively engage in such online communities lost a higher percentage of their body weight compared
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