April 21, 2017
The augmented reality gold rush is afoot
Who will be the Pixar of AR? Someone oughta be rounding up Hollywood special effects engineers and animated character designers to build an augmented reality content startup. This…
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April 21, 2017
Twitch opens up its money-making tools to tens of thousands of non-Partnered channels
On the heels of yesterday’s news about expanded subscription options for partners, video streaming site Twitch today announced another way for its creator community to generate revenue, with the…
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Pinterest’s Tim Kendall will talk the future of advertising at Disrupt NY 2017
Snap has finally gone public and it’s worth more than $20 billion. Facebook continues to be an advertising behemoth. Google still owns the search ad universe. So is…
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Snap’s anti-developer attitude is an augmented liability
Facebook just invited outside developers to help it build an augmented reality content platform. Snapchat banned outside developers in 2015 and has never had a real platform. Read…
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Instagram on Android gets offline mode
80% of Instagram’s users 600 million users are outside the US, so it needed a way to provide a better experience for users with limited network connectivity or…
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Everything Facebook launched at F8 and why
An augmented reality developer platform, group chat bots, and a virtual reality version of Facebook itself were just a few of the launches at the social network’s big…
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Crunch Report | Facebook Launches Camera Effects Platform
Today’s Stories Facebook launches augmented reality Camera Effects developer platform Facebook launches beta of Spaces, its goofy and fun social VR platform Snapchat introduces World Lenses – live…
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Oracle acquires ad measurement company Moat
Oracle just announced that it has acquired ad measurement company Moat. Founded in 2010, Moat helps advertisers and publishers measure whether people see and interact with online ads.…
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LinkedIn’s updated privacy policy covers wider profile sharing
LinkedIn sounds like it’s getting a little less buttoned down under Microsoft — the social network has a new version of its Terms of Service going into effect…
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Facebook Messenger launches group bots and bot discovery tab
Facebook today launched two powerful ways for people to find Messenger bots to use, addressing the discovery problem that’s plagued the platform’s 100,000 developers. Read More Powered by…
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