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Kylie Jenner wipes £1 billion off Snapchat’s stock market value with one tweet

Kylie Jenner inadvertently wiped a billion pounds off Snapchat's stock market value yesterday after she tweeted that she doesn't use the app anymore. The reality TV star is followed by 24.5 million people on Twitter, and added to the unease around Snapchat's re-design when she tweeted: "sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad." A petition on Change.org has already been signed by 1.2 million people calling for Snap Inc. to...

Mobile app revolutionises the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya

By Jack Granard An app is revolutionising the lives of vulnerable people in Kenya by helping them manage the burden of unexpected medical costs. Single mums and elderly people are signing up to the mobile health wallet service M-TIBA, which allows individuals to send, save and spend funds for their medical treatments. Prior to its development, the severe lack of access to financial planning tools and saving services had been problematic for residents who would often pay in cash or...

Anti-Brexit bus launched … and gets stuck on first day

A crowd-funded anti-Brexit bus that quoting government figures for the cost of leaving the EU launched today, but got stuck on London's narrow streets. The "Is It Worth It?" campaign bus is making 33 stops on an eight-day tour of the UK. The bus is in Brexit Bus red, but instead of the much back-tracked on claim that Brexit will give Britain an extra £350 million a week to spend on the NHS, this bus has the slogan: "Brexit to cost...

Trump’s solution to Parkland Florida school shooting – give teachers concealed firearms

Donald Trump met familes affected by school shootings including the Parkland, Florida atrocity yesterday to hear their concerns Present at the emotional White House meeting he had promised them were children who had survived the shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last week and a breaved family of a child who had been killed. Among the 40 students and parents invited to Washington were Darrell and Sandra Scott, whose daughter was killed in the Columbine, Colorado school shooting...

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