Memes

Earn Rs 100,000 per month: StockGro hiring for Chief Meme Officer

The work can be done from anywhere and would involve creating "snackable memes" that talk about GenZ and millennials

YouTuber arrested for meme on Mamata, search on for 7 more content creators

A 29-year-old YouTuber was arrested from West Bengal's Nadia district on Tuesday for allegedly creating memes on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that were derogatory, police said. Tuhin Mondal, the content creator, was arrested from his house in Bapujinagar in Taherpur police station area by officers of the Kolkata Police's Intelligence Branch, they said. He was arrested on the basis of a complaint filed by a 21-year-old man at Taratala police station in south Kolkata a week back, they said. "Mondal, who has no steady income, is believed to have made provocative, derogatory and abusive memes by editing parts of the chief minister's speeches to defame her. The complainant claimed that such acts can incite violence and disrupt peace," an officer of Kolkata Police said. The complaint also names at least seven other content creators, and police said that a search is on to arrest them. A case has been filed under relevant sections of the IPC, they said. In June, Kolkata Police arrested

Instagram resolves issues that caused brief outage, disruption on platform

Several users took to Twitter to share updates and memes about the service disruption

India vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 2022: How social media reacted to the match

India played Pakistan in the second match of Asia Cup 2022 and defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets. Read this detailed article to know the reaction of netizens and celebrities on social media

US: AMC, Bed Bath & Beyond lead rout in meme stocks as mania fizzles

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. plunged 38% in premarket trading ahead of its debut of a new class of shares and after peer Cineworld Group Plc confirmed it may go bankrupt.

Indians spend 30 mins a day consuming memes; duration up by 80%: Study

The Indian smartphone users are spending 30 minutes a day on consuming memes and 80 per cent have increased meme consumption in the last year, a new report showed

Field day for netizens as CPI-M leader bans IndiGo from travel plans

Social media was abuzz with memes and comments as CPI-M leader E.P.Jayarajan annouced to 'drop' IndiGo from his travel plans after the airlines banned him for three weeks

European Commission set to ban trade practice propelling meme stocks

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is separately weighing a ban on payment for order flow, in which trading firms pay retail brokerages to execute their trades

Trump-tied meme stock world gets bigger with NFT drop

Shares in Creatd Inc. surged as much as 69% after the company announced a new non-fungible token art drop through its OG Gallery unit consisting of three photographs of Trump

Online brokerage Robinhood's meme stock status fuels IPO uncertainty

The trading app's monthly active users surged from 11.7 million at the end of December to 21.3 million as of the end of June

Latest meme stock: Danish biotechnology company jumps almost 1,400%

Orphazyme A/S, which develops therapies to treat genetic disorders, says it has no idea why its American depositary shares surged overnight

After GameStop, the rise of Dogecoin shows us how memes can move markets

To own Dogecoin is to participate in a culture. People buy it because it's fun to have, is inherently amusing, and comes with a welcoming and enjoyable community experience

ShareChat scouts for start-ups in AI, ML space to expand product portfolio

Acquires memes platform Memer for an undisclosed amount

In caring company: Firms make working from home stress free and fun

Some companies have engaged doctors and therapists to talk to employees over webinars and answer questions related to the virus.

The funny side of economics

No other social science discipline can beat economics and economists when it comes to funniness

US elections: Facebook says political candidates can use sponsored memes

Each piece of sponsored political content must use Facebook's branded content tool, which states at the top of the post that the creator was paid for it and by whom

Facebook rolls out meme-making app 'Whale'; seeks to gauge users' interest

Facebook is slowly launching apps in new genres beyond chats to woo more users and open new avenues to make money

How memes are changing today's social media and digital discourse

While memes continue to be a hit-or-miss strategy for marketeers and politicians, they have managed to pique academic interest