1. Facebook 'reactions': social network adds emoji to 'Like' options
- Users felt as if the “like” button was limiting the human emotional spectrum
- From Friday, Ireland and Spain will be the first to test the new feature.
- Love, laughter, cheeky smiles, shock and anger will be some of those available to users in the trial,
- “What [people] really want is the ability to express empathy. Not every moment is a good moment."
- Facebook’s new reactions do look a lot like a subset of emoji. They are reminiscent too of the stickers available in Gmail’s Hangout
- High-profile law firm brings action on behalf of one woman from Boston and another from South Carolina, and says Uber ‘fails to protect female passengers’
- The law firm that represented the hotel maid who said she was sexually assaulted by Dominique Strauss-Kahn and a woman from Delhi who said she was raped and beaten after hailing an Uber driver last December has filed a lawsuit against the controversial taxi app on behalf of two female passengers.
- Uber said it had worked with law enforcement in both cases, and said “both drivers have been permanently removed from the platform”.
- The suit, filed in US district court in San Francisco by Wigdor, a New York law firm, alleges that Uber targets its marketing toward women who have been drinking yet fails to protect female passengers by not adequately screening drivers and routinely hiring drivers with criminal histories.
- The taxi app is valued at more than $50bn, making it the most valuable of the new “sharing economy” tech companies.
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