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Mark Devlin

Glasgow, Sarasota
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Going to start a revolution from my bed. Founder @upchartofficial – where AI music creators are welcomed, supported and celebrated.
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Mark Devlin’s Biography

Mark Devlin (47) is an entrepreneur from Scotland who went to Japan in his early twenties. In 1994 with his partner, Mary, he started handing out a four-page classified ads sheet on Tokyo street corners, which became Metropolis, Japan’s No 1 English magazine.

They also started Japan Today , the No 1 English news site about Japan in the world . At the time of its sale in 2007, their business had annual revenues of over $4million, profit of 20%, and 35 staff from over 10 different countries.

In 2012 they started WeCheck, an collaborative fact-checking site that grew into Newslines, a crowdsourced news timeline site. Newslines is the only direct competitor to Wikipedia, and aims to take it's No 1 position on Google search results for every biography and news event.

Mark & Mary's newsline: http://newslines.org/mark-mary-devlin/

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