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LinkedIn Corp. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in 2011.(Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP)

Social networking siteLinkedIn says it plans to open a sales office in downtown Detroit and initially hire 30 local workers to fill it.

The office willfocuson selling LinkedIn's products to assist businesses withmarketing, hiring and sales growth. The office will open later this year;itsprecise location will later be announced,saidMarquise McCoy, LinkedIn's corporate communications manager.

This will actually be the first office that we are opening in the U.S. in 10 years," Mike Gamson, LinkedIn's senior vice president of global solutions, said in a statement. LinkedIn chose Detroit after evaluating more than 10 other cities.

LinkedIn has already posted job listingsfor positions in the futureDetroit office.

More: Microsoft to move to downtown Detroit

More: Microsoft's move boosts Detroit's credibility as tech hub

Based in Mountain View, Calif.,LinkedIn is a social networking service that highlights users' work and educationalbackgrounds.

The tech company was founded in 2003 and last year was boughtby Microsoft for more than $26billion.

"We chose Detroit because it's a city with amazing talent," Gamson said. "There is a proven spirit of greatness and innovation, and these are the types of people with whom we want to work."

"We're committed to creating an economic opportunity for everyone and sometimes that means bringing the jobs to where the people are. We're excited to be part of the Detroit economic comeback story," he said.

LinkedIn will join other well-known tech companies with current and future outposts in downtown Detroit, including Twitter and Microsoft. Microsoft said earlier this year that it will relocate its southeast Michigan officeto downtown's One Campus Martius building from Southfield.

Contact JC Reindl: 313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter@JCReindl.

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As high-tech firms have begun taking stepsto weed out some of the most offensive right-wing hate groups, alternative social network Gab has seen a surge in donations to its crowdfunding campaign as it plays up its anti-Silicon Valley crusade.

Today, Gab passed $1 million raised. That includes almost $500,000 in just the last five days. And Gab isnt being coy about its feeling towards Silicon Valley giants.

The founders of the site insist that its a neutral, free-speech platform that is trying to build an advertising-free business. In its fundraising material, it highlights the fact that 50 percent of the top social networking apps are owned by Facebook, and that a handful of Silicon Valley companies wield enormous control over content on the internet.

It also stresses that with the rise of ad blockers, advertising-driven business models are problematic.

While the site claims to be politically neutral, it was started by Andrew Torba, an outspoken Trump supporter who was kicked off the Y Combinator alumni network last year for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders.

Torba claimed it was politically motivated, and had already launched Gab.ai as an alternative social network. This summer, the company began a crowdfunding campaign on Startengine, which allows startups to register and sell shares in their companies. Gabs logo, a smiling frog, seems to reference the Pepe the Frog image that is a favorite meme of some right-wing hate groups.

Gabs crowdfunding campaign seems to have benefited greatly from a one-two punch of events that have energized right-wing groups.

The first was Googles firing of James Damore, the engineer who wrote the controversial diversity memo. The second was the violence surrounding the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville last weekend that resulted in the death of one counterprotester. The ensuing controversy over President Trumps remarks has also continued to bring attention to the site.

Andrew Anglin, founder of neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer, has turned to Gab over the past couple of days as a platform of last report. Stormer appears to be offline again after several attempts to find a new registrarfailedfollowing its expulsion from GoDaddy. After moving to a Russian domain name, the site was taken down by at the request of a Russian agency which said that as a neo-Nazi site, Stormer violated laws against extremism.

So for now, Anglin said he would post articles on Gab as screen shots until he can find another solution:

Meanwhile, Torba took to Periscope today to celebrate the fundraising milestone, and said Gab will soon launch its own cryptocurrency to hold an Initial Coin Offering:

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/898238706489872385

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Russias most popular social network VK is hosting the neo-Nazi group Daily Stormer even after the far-right website was blocked in Russia and the group was kicked off Twitter.

The neo-Nazi group in recent days was booted from Google, GoDaddy, Cloudfare and Twitter for publishing a derogatory article on Heather Heyer who died protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in the United States.

The head of Russias internet watchdog Alexander Zharov told the Interfax news agency on Thursday he had asked the company providing Daily Stormers Russian domain to stop servicing the website.

The Daily Stormer propagandizes a neo-Nazi ideology, inciting racial, national and other social hatred, Zharov told Interfax.

The group is still active however on Russias leading social networking website VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook.

The Daily Stormers page dates to April 11, when the group uploaded a profile picture of a Nazi eagle towering over a skull.

It was mostly dormant until Aug. 15 when a post appeared announcing: Daily Stormer is now available only by Tor Browser. Google has seized our domain name.

A day later it announced: "back on the normie web, with a .ru domain, providing a link to the website which is now blocked.

The last post appeared Wednesday evening saying: Cloudfare just dropped us. Well have to build an alternative.

The page has 249 members and most have Russian names. It contains several images that depict Nazi symbolism, including a picture of a swastika and the text: White Power.

Russian law explicitly forbids Nazi imagery and Russians have previously been convicted on extremism charges of promoting Nazi symbolism after sharing pictures on VK.

In one high-profile case, a Russian journalist was fined for sharing a photograph of Nazi troops in her neighborhood during the World War II occupation of the city.A Russian man in 2012 was also convicted for sharing images of the film American History X.

Responding to a request from The Moscow Times, VKs press service said: VK does not block communities only because of the fact that other services have blocked pages with similar names.

It also said pages that violated Russian laws or called for violence or bullying would be blocked.

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Facebook is the go-to platform for pharma marketers. In a new study, 73% of pharma marketing teams say they plan to use the platform during the next two years,an 8-percentage-point increase since Cutting Edge Information'sprevious survey in 2013.

That's notsurprising, considering Facebooks mainstream ubiquity and large reach, along with stepped-up efforts by Facebook to reach out to the pharma industry. What might be surprising, however, is how much other social platforms have gainedor lostin the world of drug marketing. Twitter took a big fall below the 50% mark, while LinkedIn soared upward in its place. Pinterest? Gone. Instagram? Finally popped up.

LinkedIn made the biggest gain in projected use since the last survey. The business-friendly social networking site grew by 29 percentage points. Just 26% of pharma marketers planned to use it in 2013; this year, that grew to 55%.

RELATED: The top 10 pharma companies in social media

Not nearly as important anymore was 140-character Twitter, where projected usage among pharma marketers dropped 19 percentage points. Only45% plan to use it now, down from 64% in 2013.

Among the smaller social media platforms, Tumblr was on the to-do list for 9% of pharma marketers, while Instagram showed up for the first time in the survey,with 18% saying theyll use it in the coming two years, said Natalie DeMasi, research team leader at Cutting Edge Information. Gone this year was Pinterestwhich got zero reports of planned use, same as Vine, Flickr and Reddit.

RELATED: Bayer blazes new trails for pharma with Betaseron Facebook ad

In general, pharma social media use remains targeted at patients,with key focus areas in brand education and corporate communications, DeMasi said.

The study also looked at overall use of digital, including mobile as a key tool for pharma marketing. Worth noting in this years study was a shift in mobile marketing: Pharma has turned its attention away from consumers to focus mobile efforts more on healthcare providers, sales reps and medical science liaisons.

Patient adherence used to be a pretty big objective for mobile apps, for example, but that decreased a good amount in 2017, DeMasi said. In talking to executives, it sounds like the mobile health market is saturated with so many consumer appslots of fitness apps, nutrition apps and so many othersthat there arent many opportunities for pharma to make a new app that patients would use. Pharma is moving away from developing patient-focused mobile apps and instead making apps for physician education, detailing for sales reps, or investigator apps for coordinating clinical trials.

Challenges still remain in digital marketing as pharma gets up to speed on technologybut continues to deal with some audiencessome old-school doctors, for instancewho dont want tech solutions.

Today pharma marketers have to do a lot of research ahead of time to figure out what will speak most to their target audiences. Sometimes, the best thing to do might not be using the new technology. But other times you have to go all the way. Do the research to find out, DeMasi said.

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The government of India may have asked internet majors Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Instagram to remove all links of the lethal online game Blue Whale challenge but it does not make Indian youths, especially teenagers, completely secure from the reach of the games administrators/curators.

However, parents can try to keep track of whether their children are trying to get in touch with the administrators of the game or have already got addicted to it.

HT spoke to hackers and dug the cyber world to access the advisories issued by government agencies in Russia and Kazakhstan where the game earned maximum curiosity and witnessed maximum casualties to find out what parents can do.

Here are the 10 commandments they can follow:

1. Link your social media profile with your childrens and watch out if she/he is using the hashtags #Iamawhale, #IAmWhale, #curatorfindme, #f57, #f58, #SeaOfWhales, #wakemeat420am, #silenthouse, #quiethouse, #iaminthegame.

2. The game is also known by the name Quiet House, Sea Whale, Wake me up at 4:20, Silent House, f33, f40, F57, F58, Whales float up, Nyapoka, 50 days before my . Watch out if the teenager is member of such groups on social networking sites.

3. Also keep track if these Russian words are being used with hashtag #Tihiydom, #Siniykit, #50dneyDoMoego, #mlechnyyput, #yavigre, #Razbudimenyav420

4. The game requires the player to wake up at 4.20 am. So, if the teenager is unusually waking up around that time, parents need to be cautious.

5. The game requires continuous self-harming. So, watch out for cut marks on arms and legs, especially veins, and if she/he has inscribed f40, f57, f58 with cut marks with razors on arms, or have drawn a whale on an arm with cut marks.

6. Watch out if the teenager is drawing blue whale, unicorn and butterflies on papers, notebooks.

7. This game requires the player to maintain utmost secrecy. So, keep watch if she/he looks completely removed from the world.

8. If the teen, despite having an existing social networking profile, has opened new ones, especially if on the English version of Vkontake, which comes as https://vk.com/club200. HT found out several teens have opened account on this site in August, possibly with fake identity and profile photo, only to draw the attraction of the games curators.

9. If the teen suddenly closes public or friends access to his page on the social networking sites.

10. If the teenager is seen walking or sitting on the edge of roof, especially of multi-storeyed buildings.

So far three Indian teenagers one each in Maharashtra, Bengal and Kerala are suspected to have killed themselves under the influence of the curators of the game. Two deaths have been prevented in the country.

Hackers pointed out that since it is an underground game, it is not accessible through search engines. The game exists in closed groups. Administrators of the game, who are also called curators, choose players and contact them through direct messages on various social networking sites. The link to download the game is generally shared through direct messages.

People who intend to play the game can also draw the attention of the games administrators by using certain hashtags from their social networking profiles. It then depends on the administrators whether to choose the intended person as a potential player or not.

Moreover, those who in India have the game already downloaded can share the link through such sharing apps as SHAREit and Xender, said Jins K Sebastian, a Kerala-based ethical hacker who is associated with hacking groups i-hos, Mallu Cyber Soldiers and Lulzsec India.

Incidentally, apart from various government agencies in Europe, hacktivist group Anonymous has also launched a drive against the game in March and vowed to end the menace. It seems, none of them have fully succeeded yet.

Searches through social networking sites revealed that an increasing number of Indian youths are trying to draw the attention of the games curators since early August 2017. Many have opened new accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and even VKontakte, where the game originated from and is mostly played.

The Indian government is yet to announce any advisory so far.

Archismita Chaudhury, a youth from north Bengal, claimed to have tracked down several teenagers by searching #iamwhale hastag on Facebook and sent messages to some of them.

I did this today and got many posts and texted 4 fellows....one child was of 15 years....And more three.... All were teens. I got reply from one of them.....He said he stopped playing the game yesterday as he understood how harmful it is....He was in 11th task, Chaudhury posted on Facebook on August 15.

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