Snapchat was flying high in early 2016, but the launch of direct competitor Instagram Stories coincided with a massive drop in how fast Snapchat was growing, judging by new stats
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Snap paid $114.5M to acquire Vurb and gives acquisition details for Bitstrips and Looksery
Now that Snap is revealing its financial guts to the world in its filing for its initial public offering, we’re getting a small glimpse at how much the company is
Facebook’s AI unlocks the ability to search photos by what’s in them
Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company’s Lumos computer vision platform is now powering image content search for all users. This means you can
Women’s March turns its site into a Meetup.com for the movement
Social media plays a large role in politics today, from the election of Donald Trump to those now resisting his policies, such as through the grassroots-born movement that was the
Messaging app Viber names mobile ad vet Djamel Agaoua as new CEO
While messaging app watchers are waiting for Snap Inc. to announce its IPO, another app has appointed a new CEO. Viber — the messaging app that was acquired by Rakuten in
400M people use Facebook Messenger audio and video calling each month
Facebook’s push for video goes well beyond the News Feed. On today’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said 400 million people are making audio and video calls each month, up swiftly
The enterprise is the next logical step for Slack
Slack took a big step in its evolution as a startup yesterday when it launched Slack Enterprise Grid, the enterprise version of its popular messaging platform. For Slack to continue
Facebook beats in Q4 with $8.81B revenue, slower growth to 1.86B users
Facebook had another strong quarter in Q4 2016, earning $8.81 billion in revenue and $1.41 EPS. It pulled that from 1.86 billion monthly users, up 3.91 percent this quarter, or
How Facebook plans to evaluate its quest for generalized artificial intelligence
One of the biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence is the belief that today’s AIs possess generalized intelligence. We are really good at leveraging large data sets to accomplish specific tasks, but fall flat at
Facebook plans to be more like YouTube than Netflix as it pays for video
“We’re focusing more on shorter form content to start” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on today’s Q4 earnings call where he was repeatedly questioned about Facebook’s video strategy. One thing’s
Instagram testing multi-photo album posts
Sometimes when you’re looking at your Instagram selects and you can’t quite decide between a few options, or when you want to post something from your trip but also don’t
6 ways IoT will change plan management
IT’ers initial schooled a methodology of complement and devise life cycles, i.e., define, design, develop, test,deploy. Then, agile devise methodology finished that, mouth-watering partnership where many of a strange devise
Does your association value employees? Why tech leaders should ask this question
I’d adore to find a association that’s honest in a goal and values statements as associated to employees. Rather than a common flowery bromides, this suppositious association competence have a
Video: Top 5 ways to behind adult your data
You know you’re ostensible to behind adult your data. I’m blissful we did. A unsuccessful NAS meant some episodes of this uncover were roughly mislaid to a ether. we had
Facebook’s new “Discover People” feature wants to help you make friends
Facebook is rolling out a new section on mobile called “Discover People,” which encourages users to introduce themselves by updating their profile, then scroll through a list of upcoming events to
