Why Facebook and Google must pay for news everywhere
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Asif Muztaba Hassan
Asif Muztaba Hassan
Australia s recent attempt to make Google and Facebook pay for news content is one of many considered ways to strike a balance in wealth generation between the creative and the tech sectors. The problem statement for that policy was simple: news organisations create unique content; search and social media use the content to invite advertisers to their platforms. As a result, ads get siphoned off from TV and news media to social media for every AU$ 100, $81 goes to Google and Facebook.
Virtual concert for International Migrants Day tomorrow Star Online Report Star Online Report
International Organisation for Migration will host a virtual concert for migrants tomorrow (Friday) to celebrate the International Migrants Day.
With over eight million Bangladeshi migrants working abroad, this virtual concert organised by IOM will enable them to connect and watch the concert from any part of the world, UN migration agency said in a press release today.
The Concert for Migrants will feature popular performers including Fakir Shahabuddin, Fahmida Nabi, SI Tutul, Sania Sultana Liza, Mizan Mahmud Razib, Xefer Rahman, Sahos Mostafiz, and Nowshad Ferdous (a Bangladeshi singer in South Korea). Palash Noor, the lead vocalist of the band Warfaze, will MC/host the concert.