Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft are joining forces to make your data super portable

Avengers: Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history…but Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook might beg to differ.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft have all teamed up to work on a new open-source project called the Data Transfer Project. 

The goal of the project is to give users an easy and convenient way to transfer data between each platform. If all goes as planned, users’ data would be seamlessly transferred service to service without having to be downloaded then uploaded it each time. Users would no longer feel bound to a service solely based on all the data they have stored on it. Read more...

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