March 14, 2019
Daily Crunch: Telegram soars after Facebook outage
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March 11, 2019
Instagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant “winning”
Rather than be sore about losing independence within Facebook, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told me it was an inevitable sign of his app’s triumph. Today at South By…
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Zuckerberg wants messages to auto-expire to make Facebook a ‘living room’
On feed-based “broader social networks, where people can accumulate friends or followers until the services feel more public . . . it feels more like a town square…
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Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not
Facebook has changed its story after initially trying to downplay how it targeted teens with its Research program that a TechCrunch investigation revealed was paying them gift cards…
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Facebook will shut down its spyware VPN app Onavo
Facebook will end its unpaid market research programs and proactively take its Onavo VPN app off the Google Play store in the wake of backlash following TechCrunch’s investigation…
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Highlights & transcript from Zuckerberg’s 20K-word ethics talk
Mark Zuckerberg says it might be right for Facebook to let people pay to not see ads, but that it would feel wrong to charge users for extra…
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Startups Weekly: Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?
Greetings from Chittorgarh, one of my stops on a two-week excursion through Goa and Rajasthan, India. I’ve been a little too busy exploring, photographing cows and monkeys and…
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Daily Crunch: Facebook (possibly) considered buying Unity
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Instagram is now testing a web version of Direct messages
Insta-chat addicts, rejoice. You could soon be trading memes and emojis from your computer. Instagram is internally testing a web version of Instagram Direct messaging that lets people…
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Facebook and Google still offer the best value for mobile advertisers (Singular report)
Among mobile ad networks, Facebook and Google remain the best bet for advertisers, according to the latest ROI Index from marketing startup Singular. To pull together this year’s…
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