Twitter is continuing to grow its live streaming business, with a series of new deals announced over the past week or so, including a partnership that will bring live streams
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Facebook is rolling out its ‘Find Wi-Fi’ feature worldwide
Facebook is expanding one of its newer features designed to help mobile users find accessible Wi-Fi networks. The company had begun testing a “Find Wi-Fi” option last year on mobile,
Facebook is rolling out its ‘Find Wi-Fi’ feature worldwide
Facebook is expanding one of its newer features designed to help mobile users find accessible Wi-Fi networks. The company had begun testing a “Find Wi-Fi” option last year on mobile,
Facebook News Feed change demotes sketchy links overshared by spammers
Technically, Facebook can’t suspend people’s accounts just for sharing 50-plus false, sensational or clickbaity news articles per day. It doesn’t want to trample anyone’s right to share. But there’s nothing
Manufacturing civility
Facebook’s task is unenviable. Two billion people, all yammering on about literally everything in the world. And hidden in that unending torrent are an unknown number of abhorrent, hateful utterances
Snapchat bought the AR location intellectual property of startup Drop
Snap Map is Snapchat’s plan to tie together its online content with ways to augment your offline reality, and it’s got the patent to back it up. Augmented reality location
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Facebook introduces new ad metrics and promises that more are coming
Facebook says it’s introducing a number of new measurements for businesses that buy ads and own Facebook Pages. Last year, the company admitted that it had been misreporting some metrics
Free choice must be free
It’s hard to know at this point whether Facebook did or did not offer a manipulative targeting product to its advertisers. What matters, however, is that it could. Facebook has
Instagram implements an AI system to fight mean and harassing comments
Instagram is flipping the switch on a system that will automatically detect mean, offensive and harassing comments and make sure that people never see them. The new system is based
Facebook Messenger launches Discover as it takes on chatbots (again)
Facebook isn’t done with chatbots quite yet; today, the company is launching Discover, a hub inside Messenger for discovering new and interesting chatbots to message with. The section Facebook announced
Twitch’s mobile app is adding live streaming, dark mode and more
Amazon-owned game-streaming site Twitch today announced a series of changes coming soon to its mobile application, the most notable of which is the ability for broadcasters to stream directly to
Snapchat now lets you create custom geofilters right in the app
Snapchat introduced a way to create custom geofilters back in February of last year, and now it’s making the feature easier to use. U.S. Snapchat users can now create and
Dating apps are embracing video
Dating apps are, in their own way, a form of social networking – especially as they expand into new areas like friend-finding or professional networking. So it only makes sense
