News Factoids for Fourth Quarter 2018

October 2018: The Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico announced that Netflix is about to complete its purchase of ABQ Studios [est. 2007] in the Mesa del Sol district; Netflix plans to increase its presence here and make the city a 'production hub'.

61 percent of Trump's twitter followers are not real, according to a new analysis by SparkToro online marketing company — per article at newsweek.com

The number of mobile phones on the planet - 7.2 billion - now exceeds the world’s population.

funny new internet spam cliché: "Your urgent is needed"

Nationally, the November 2018 voter turnout was 50 percent higher than in the last midterm election and, importantly, millions more young people voted.

The draft version of The Contract for The Web was released by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in November 2018. "The web was designed to bring people together and make knowledge freely available. Everyone has a role to play to ensure [that] the web serves humanity. By committing to [these] principles, governments, companies, and citizens around the world can help protect the open web as a public good and a basic right for everyone."

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