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Snapchat Becomes Available on the NYSE
Snapchat filed for it's IPO valued at $17 a share, opened on the NYSE and began trading at $24 a share, an impressive 41% above open. -
#MeToo Movement goes viral
In October 2017 following widespread accusations of sexual assault and rape towards Hollywood director Harvey Weinstein, actress Alyssa Milano published a blog post encouraging victims of sexual harassment and assault to use the hashtag #MeToo to bring attention to the widespread issues of sexual violence against women. The movement goes viral, causing global exposure. -
TikTok Becomes Available in the US
While popular short form video content app TikTok was intitially released in September 2016, it was developed by Chinese company ByteDance. In August of 2018 ByteDance purchased popular American app Musical.ly, merged the app into TikTok and was released to the American public, skyrocketing TikTok to unprecedented levels of popularity.
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Twitter Ends All Politcial Advertising
Twitter Cofounder and CEO announces Twitter's decision to end all political advertising. -
Facebook Whistle Blower Testifies Before Congress
Frances Haugen, former data engineer and product manager for Facebook testifies in front of Congress exposing Facebook's internal documents and testifying that Facebook is aware of the safety problems it's company faces, but refuses to fix them as they prioritize profits. -
Apple Hits $3 Trillion
Apple becomes the first company in the world to surpass $3 billion in market capitalization.
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