October 21, 2016
Facebook’s News Feed just got better on slower connections
Facebook’s News Feed has now been made even better for users with slow network connections – a project the social network has been working on for some time…
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October 20, 2016
Slack’s rapid growth slows as it hits 1.25M paying work chatters
Slack is still growing fast, about 33% in daily users and paid seats in the last 5 months. But not as fast as before, when it saw 50%…
Read articleOctober 19, 2016
Facebook embraces utility with food ordering and ticketing
Facebook wants you to participate in your community, not just talk about it, with a slew of new features launching today. From Facebook Pages, you’ll now be able…
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Tinder Boost, letting you pay to skip the line, goes live worldwide
Tinder Boost, the feature that lets users pay to have their profile shown first in the feed, has gone live worldwide as of today. The company started testing…
Read articleOctober 18, 2016
Social media display company Tagboard acquires Capture
Tagboard announced today that it has acquired Capture, another startup in the social media and user-generated-content business. Tagboard helps marketers find and create displays for social media conversation around…
Read articleOctober 18, 2016
Facebook gives app developers a new way to target users with push notifications
Today, it’s not enough to get users to download an app, you have to keep them coming back, or the app will soon be abandoned and forgotten. To…
Read articleOctober 18, 2016
Facebook Live unlocks scheduling and pre-stream lobby, first for verified Pages
Facebook is helping broadcasters plan and promote their Live streams ahead of time, and assemble their audiences in a waiting room so they have viewers the second the…
Read articleOctober 18, 2016
Amazon launches “Family Vault,” a way for families to share Prime Photos’ free storage
One of the perks of Amazon Prime membership is free, unlimited photo storage via Prime Photos. Today, Amazon is extending that benefit to the family members of the main…
Read articleOctober 13, 2016
Pinterest hits 150M monthly users, missing earlier leaked projections in 2015
Today, Pinterest said it hit 150 million monthly active users, up from the 100 million it announced in September 2015. However, as TechCrunch previously reported, Pinterest in 2015…
Read articleOctober 13, 2016
Facebook now lets cast videos to your TV
Facebook wants you to lean back and watch its News Feed videos on your television with a new feature that lets you stream clips via Apple TV, AirPlay…
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