Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme creation app, Whale
Facebook’s NPE Team, a division inside the social networking giant that will build experimental consumer-facing social apps, has now added a third app to its lineup with the launch of…
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Facebook Has Launched Another Teen Focused App, This Time to Make Memes
For pretty much its entire history, Facebook has been afraid of losing touch with the kids. Well, maybe not since its inception, as it came to prominence by superseding former…
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Facebook’s Libra code chugs along ignoring regulatory deadlock
“5 months and growing strong” the Libra Association announced today in a post about its technical infrastructure that completely omits the fierce regulatory backlash to its cryptocurrency. Forty wallets, tools…
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Daily Crunch: TikTok starts experimenting with commerce
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TikTok tests social commerce
TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to e-commerce sites (or any other destination)…
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Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive
Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into a social network of more than a million women, announced…
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Facebook says a bug caused its iPhone app’s inadvertent camera access
Facebook has faced a barrage of concern over an apparent bug that resulted in the social media giant’s iPhone app exposing the camera as users scroll through their feed. A…
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Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots
Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now you can control what appears in the Facebook…
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Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers
“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help people’s well-being and health” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To that end, next week Instagram will expand its test…
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“Trump should not be our president” says Ex-Facebook CPO Chris Cox
Chris Cox’s motivational speeches were at the heart of Facebook’s new employee orientation. But after 14 years at the social network, the chief product officer left in March amidst an…
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