Farewell Online Anonymity as China Scales Up Great Firewall
Last month, we wrote about Apple’s troubling compliance with the Chinese government’s rules about VPNs. Many Toronto iOS app developers saw Apple’s decision to remove VPNs from the Chinese App Store as a sign that the company is putting its business relationship with China above its so-called principles. On a practical level, this makes sense; […]
Yik Yak iPhone App Developers Launch Web App
Yik Yak took another step towards social network maturity in the past couple weeks, as the iPhone app developers behind the trending location-based messaging service launched a web app platform. The web app has been in closed beta for several months now; with Yik Yak’s popularity skyrocketing on college campuses across the US the new […]