Facebook is tracking coronavirus symptoms by county to identify hotspots
https ://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/facebook-coronavirus-symptom-tracking-map-released.html
Facebook on Monday released its first map that tracks coronavirus symptoms county by county and plans to update it daily throughout the outbreak.
Facebook partnered with Carnegie Mellon University researchers to create an opt-in survey designed to help identify Covid-19 hotspots before the cases are confirmed. The map breaks down the percentage of people per county who have self-reported coronavirus symptoms, such as loss of smell, cough and fever.
It shows, for example, that 1.45% of people in New York County have reported coronavirus symptoms. But, as you can see in the map below, a huge portion of the map does not have enough participants to show data.
More than 1 million people responded to the survey within the first two weeks, according to Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will roll out the survey globally this week, which will help it provide a more complete picture.
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Facebook has been criticized for its handling of health issues and privacy. Zuckerberg said Monday that Facebook can only see aggregated data. The Carnegie Mellon researchers can see individual survey responses, however.
Zuckerberg stressed that social media platforms have an advantage when it comes to helping health researchers, since they can access large groups of people.
“Facebook is uniquely suited to run these surveys because we serve a global community of billions of people and can do statistically accurate sampling,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The company said more than 2 billion people use its platform.
In a Washington Post op-ed published Monday, Zuckerberg added that Facebook can help health officials around the world access precise data to make public health decisions in the coming months.
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“This is work that social networks are well-situated to do. By distributing surveys to large numbers of people whose identities we know, we can quickly generate enough signal to correct for biases and ensure sampling is done properly,” he said.
Why is Big Pharma essential?
Expand your thinking past cures.
Think Google [new Pixel phone].
Think Apple [vs. Samsung].
Why was Blackberry destroyed?
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BlackBerry vs. Facebook: Why David Will Beat Goliath
BlackBerry has sued Facebook for IP theft. This is a tad like David calling out Goliath. Facebook is massive and is arguably the most successful of the social media companies, second only to Alphabet (Google) in terms of success with regard to ad revenue. Its model, once thought to be unsustainable after the dot-com collapse, is based on monetizing information and access from and to its customers. In effect, you are its product.
BlackBerry is a far smaller company. Once one of the smartphone powers, it and its peers were displaced by Apple and Google, forcing the company to pivot. This pivot, one of the most difficult, changed the firm from a smartphone company to a software/services company focused on security, autonomous cars, IoT, and fleet management (among other things). In effect, it went from a hardware company that was very insular, to a software/services company that operated under a licensing model that forces far more aggressive collaboration. The pivot was successful, though the company is still having issues transitioning how people see it.
Litigation isn’t an absolute process and generally favors the firm that can afford to spend the most on the effort. Here, that would be Facebook. However, there are exceptions to this rule and one of them is tied to whether the smaller firm has adequate resources and a greater will to win. That, I think, will eventually allow BlackBerry to win, but this will be an expensive process for both firms. Two things that could affect this, and also favor BlackBerry, would be if the firm were acquired or the Canadian government were to intercede on BlackBerry’s behalf. Both are possible, but unlikely, at this time.
https ://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/blackberry-vs.-facebook-why-david-will-beat-goliath.html
BlackBerry vs. Facebook: Why David Will Beat Goliath
https ://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/blackberry-vs.-facebook-why-david-will-beat-goliath.html
IP is owned by taxpayers !!!!
Taxpayers should have the companies broken up and take all of their assets and give it to the people
USA v. LifeLog?
1st of many?
Billionaire Branson Asks For Government Money To Save Virgin Atlantic, Claims He ‘Did Not Leave Britain For Tax Reasons’
https: //www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/04/20/billionaire-branson-asks-for-government-money-to-save-virgin-atlantic-claims-he-did-not-leave-britain-for-tax-reasons/#5a4d351be218
is it $2 because of taxes city state etc ?
BOOM !!!!
>>8863412
What is the price at the pump ?
taxes included ?