44 postsMark and Mary Devlin are media entrepreneurs. After studying engineering in Scotland, they moved to Japan in 1989. In 1993 they started handing out a four-page classified ads sheet on Tokyo streets. Over 14 years that sheet grew into Metropolis, Japan’s No 1 English Magazine. In 2000 they founded japantoday.com, the No. 1 news and discussion site about Japan in English. In 2007 Mark & Mary sold their businesses and moved to the United States where they opened Kroaky’s, a private karaoke room business. In 2014 they launched Newslines, an innovative news timeline site, which was followed by NewsBlocks, a blockchain-based marketplace for news data. In June 2020 they launched The Majority to fight back against Nationalism in Scotland. They have two children and live in Glasgow.
Mark and Mary meet on the first day of studying Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
Newslines is a social news network that aims to give readers the complete unbiased news history of any topic. Newslines is built from NewsBlocks, a blockchain that stores news as data, allowing the creation of trusted news applications.
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