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June 10, 2015
Facebook announced a new Creative Accelerator program earlier this year, with the aim of delivering more effective advertising in emerging markets like India and Kenya. The early results,…
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Facebook Messenger’s quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “Doodle Draw Game” in the Messenger platform app…
Read articleJune 9, 2015
Vine has today updated its app to include even better search results. When you go over to the Explore Tab, Vine will serve up the top results and…
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Only two companies have apps with over 1 billion Google Play downloads, and the other is Google. Today Facebook proved just how big a business replacing SMS can be,…
Read articleJune 8, 2015
Apple wants to be the way you socially connect to musicians, not Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Spotify. As a tab in its new Apple Music on-demand streaming service,…
Read articleJune 5, 2015
If you’ve ever wanted to contribute photos or videos to your local newscast, you might get your chance soon, thanks to a new startup called Fresco News. There…
Read articleJune 4, 2015
Facebook is removing the confusing, slightly creepy always-on location sharing feature in Messenger for a more explicit, one-time way to share where you are or will be. Location…
Read articleJune 4, 2015
Swarm has just released an update that brings with it the ability message friends of friends. This means that whenever you come across a user in the app…
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Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook…
Read articleJune 4, 2015
Airbnb renters will now get pricing recommendations for their listings as part of an update to the room-sharing service today. It’s called Price Tips, and it creates ongoing suggestions…
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