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October 5, 2016
Twitter once tried to buy Shots for $150 million to score its 3 million rabid teen users, a source tells TechCrunch. But the Justin Bieber-funded selfie app developer…
Read articleOctober 4, 2016
All 1 billion Facebook Messenger users can now encrypt their messages so that governments, hackers, and even Facebook itself can’t read them. Facebook announced its “Secret” messages feature…
Read articleOctober 4, 2016
Today, Pinterest announced that it has hired its first chief financial officer from Twitter, Todd Morgenfeld. However, there’s a more interesting footnote that’s reported in The Wall Street Journal’s…
Read articleOctober 4, 2016
Pinterest has hired its first chief financial officer, Todd Morgenfeld — who was most recently vice president of finance at Twitter — the company said today. He was at…
Read articleOctober 3, 2016
Every member of the Facebook family of apps is pushing to bring copies of Snapchat’s best features to international audiences before Snapchat blows up abroad. There was the…
Read articleOctober 3, 2016
Facebook Marketplace lets you browse a relevancy-sorted feed of things to buy from people who live nearby, and quickly list your own stuff for sale. Integration with Facebook…
Read articleOctober 3, 2016
Messaging platform Telegram is powering up on the chatbot front, with the launch of what it dubs a “bot-powered gaming platform” — in a bid to try to…
Read articleSeptember 30, 2016
Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn’t popular yet. Today in Poland it launched “Messenger Day”, which lets people share illustrated filter-enhanced photos…
Read articleSeptember 29, 2016
Some more details are coming through on Facebook at Work, the social network’s big effort to move into enterprise communication services with a business version of its popular…
Read articleSeptember 28, 2016
Meetup is giving users a new way to find the meetups that give the company its name. The New York City-based company is launching new smartphone apps and…
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