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Posts published by “Buffy Roberie”

Is the attention economy being captured by virtual eyeballs?

A short-selling row highlights the dodgy metrics of online commerceIT WAS A spectacular bit of timing. On November 16th Baidu, a Chinese online-search giant, said it would buy YY Live, a China-focused video-streaming service with 40m monthly users, for $3.6bn. Two days later Muddy Waters, an American short-seller, published a report claiming YY Live was…