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😱The Saviour! 🇩🇪 Engineering student, Philip Frenzel, has created a case that senses when your phone is in free fall and... #ShutUpAndTakeMyMoney! 🚀@PerspectiveIX 😍 I Want one! 😒 Nah; BS!

📱 Top Apps by All-Time Worldwide Downloads 🔵 1. Facebook 🔵 2. Facebook Messenger 🔴 3. YouTube 🔵 4. Instagram 🔵 5. WhatsApp 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ 72 percent of respondents to a recent Pew Research survey believe social media companies actively censor political views that disagree with their own. (Source: Pew Research Center) INSIGHT 💼 Learn to Become - Find Your Career: prs.pctvix.co/2tQ63x3 OTHER NEWS 🤬 Some #Samsung users say their phones randomly sent photos to contacts: t.me/iXNews/28698 🤖 A Buddhist temple in Beijing built a robotic monk to spread the word: t.me/iXNews/28703 ✋️#Instagram’s Do Not Disturb and “Caught Up” deter overgramming: t.me/iXNews/28654 👊 Facebook is shutting down Hello, Moves and the anonymous teen app tbh due to ‘low usage’: t.me/iXNews/28690 🤫 Federal investigators want to know if #Facebook lied about #CambridgeAnalytica: t.me/iXNews/28688 🎧#Spotify is testing a data-friendly ‘Lite’ app for Android: t.me/iXNews/28651 — EXTRA 📗#Instagram Creators Handbook - #IGTV (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MGEehC — ❓ What do you like about our channel? What don't you like? What do you want us to share? Join the discussion group: t.me/joinchat/ACtN6EJ2YNbLsZyziZzNEA Have a great week! Ben, @iXNews

📱45 Years of the Cell Phone The first cell phone was created in 1973. It took 10 years before the first cell phone was sold for $3,995. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

🦄Unicorn are no longer extraordinary There are over 200 startups valued at or above $1 billion in Silicon Valley And Bird is the fastest ever to reach a $1 billion valuation. 🚀@PerspectiveIX

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ Initial market reception of the IGTV release is optimistic - Instagram is expected to earn $5.48 billion in U.S. ad revenue in 2018 and Facebook’s share price was up over 2.2% Thursday to nearly $202. (Source: eMarketer) INSIGHT 🤖 156 slides on the state of #AI and recent progress: prs.pctvix.co/2NiMvJQ OTHER NEWS 🙄#WhatsApp copies #Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats: t.me/iXNews/28581 ⁉️#Instagram may let you ask questions in Stories: prs.pctvix.co/2tLizgX 🇪🇺#Facebook hires Spiegel exec (and sometimes critic) to strengthen relations with publishers in Europe: prs.pctvix.co/2NjYpTo 📺#YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode is live for all U.S. Android users: t.me/iXNews/28560 — EXTRA 📗#Instagram Creators Handbook - #IGTV (PDF): prs.pctvix.co/2MGEehC — “You're never too important to be kind to other people.” ― Tim Fargo Have a great week! Ben, @iXNews

🎧Do you remember Sony Walkman? On this day (1 July) in 1979: #Sony Walkman was released! 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb ❓ Remember it? 😁 Yes! Of course! 😳 No! What the hell is this?

​​📱Facebook vs. Snapchat Which one is the most popular among Millennials? ❗️ Social Media Savvy #Millennials: the top 20% of all Millennial #SocialMedia and communications users (in the U.S., ages 18-35), based on the amount of time they spend per month with social media and communication brands. Stickiness is how Verto measures user engagement with a particular digital property, by comparing daily users to monthly users. Our analysis of the stickiest social media and communications brands among Social Media Savvy Millennials shows which social media platforms this subset of Millennials use on a regular (even daily) basis. Among Social Media Savvy Millennials, the stickiest social media platforms are still dominated by Facebook-owned properties: Facebook (90% stickiness rating) and Facebook Messenger (61% stickiness rating). And while Snapchat earns a 60% stickiness rating, its user numbers still lag well behind those of Instagram (55% stickiness rating). 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

🥚20% of smart-speaker owning Brits use them to boil an egg 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

​​⚡️OUCH! Instagram Stories is growing about 6 times faster than Snapchat’s whole app! #Instagram Stories has 400 million daily users, up from 300 million in November and 250 million a year ago. That means #InstagramStories is growing about six times faster than #Snapchat’s whole app, which only added 13 million daily users over the 6 months of Q4 2017 and Q1 2018 to reach 191 million. 🚀@PerspectiveIX ☕️prs.pctvix.co/2M8AAOb

📰#iXDailyBrief STAT ⚡️ 20% of smart-speaker owning Brits use them to boil an egg. Only 7% have used them to buy anything. (Source: Econsultancy) INSIGHT 💡 Ad Council creates story-driven mobile chat to combat teenage drinking and driving: prs.pctvix.co/2N5v2Em OTHER NEWS 🤦‍♂️ Maker of popular quiz apps on Facebook exposed personal data of 120 million users: t.me/iXNews/28485 🕵️‍♀️#Facebook and #Twitter Expand Peek Into Who’s Behind Their Ads: prs.pctvix.co/2NaCttZ 🐉 This flying ‘dragon’ #drone can change shape in midair: t.me/iXNews/28507 🍎#Apple to reportedly get its OLED displays from #LG to reduce reliance on #Samsung: t.me/iXNews/28503 🤖#SpaceX is sending an #AI robot ‘crew member’ to join the astronauts on the space station: t.me/iXNews/28495 🏫#Instagram may soon let college students list their schools: t.me/iXNews/28486 📺#YouTube kills some creators’ custom-made thumbnail images in latest experiment: t.me/iXNews/28481 — 🎁 Build a Digital Marketing Plan (eBook) & chance to win $20 & a special prize: prs.pctvix.co/2tCojJZ — “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” ― Unknown And I'm off to London 👋 Ben, @iXNews

📵Mobile Free Mondays! In a pub in Wales, they lock your phone in a box when you sit & won't let you open it till the bill is paid! What do you think? 👏 Great idea 😬 Who's gonna Instagram my food?