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How LinkedIn Has Evolved as a B2B Marketing Tool in Two Decades 2️⃣0️⃣
Let's take a trip down memory lane, all the way back to the year 2003.
Queen Bey, aka Beyoncé, drops her debut alum, which topped the Billboard charts. A cute little fish named Nemo is capturing the hearts of moviegoers everywhere in Pixar’s box-office smash. Dan Brown’s mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code hits bookshelves and becomes a worldwide bestseller.
Meanwhile, a humble professional networking site called LinkedIn launched. The platform first went live publicly on May 5th, 2003, and in 20 years since, LinkedIn – to say the least – has experienced a lot of changes and growth.
linkedin.com
New features
Shop within a WhatsApp chat 🛍️
WhatsApp users in Singapore can now pay local businesses for goods and services seamlessly and securely right within a WhatsApp chat.
Comment: It will be interesting to see if this is expanded elsewhere. It's already available in Brazil too.
New Text feature on TikTok 🆕
In addition to Videos and Photos, TikTok is testing a Text feature.
Comment: Thanks to Jonah Manzano for this one.
Insights
Warning that WhatsApp could disappear from UK because of privacy worries ⚠️
UK government ministers have been warned that WhatsApp could disappear from the UK. It centres around the online safety bill, a major piece of legislation that will affect almost every area of online life in the UK.
walesonline.co.uk
Videos
Mark Zuckerberg wipes the floor with rivals in his first jiu-jitsu tournament 🥋
Fighting is commonplace in Facebook comment sections, but the company’s founder chooses instead to fight in real life — and apparently, he’s pretty good.
globalnews.ca
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