Snapchat neglected the international market in its early years, and now WhatsApp has snatched that growth opportunity. WhatsApp’s clone of Snapchat Stories, ‘WhatsApp Status’, now has 450 million daily active users. That’s compared to just 187 million daily users on all of Snapchat. This update from today’s F8 conference comes after Facebook said WhatsApp Status and […]
View More WhatsApp’s stories hit 450M users, stealing the globe from SnapchatCategory: F8 2018
Facebook’s AR camera effects platform comes to Instagram
The augmented reality platform on Facebook has largely been hampered by the fact that it’s only on Facebook. Well, today the feature lands on Instagram, where it will arrive it front of an audience more devoted to photo-sharing in a platform more suited to AR filters. The filter platform will operate a little differently on […]
View More Facebook’s AR camera effects platform comes to InstagramFacebook’s Safety Check now lets people share first-person accounts from disaster zones
Facebook today announced an update to its Safety Check feature that expands the tool from simply allowing you to mark yourself as safe to sharing a bit more information about what’s happening on the ground. Facebook says it has activated the Safety Check feature, which launched back in 2014, more than 1,000 times. These new […]
View More Facebook’s Safety Check now lets people share first-person accounts from disaster zonesWorkplace, Facebook’s enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrations
Workplace, the more secure, closed enterprise version of Facebook that competes against the likes of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hipchat as a platform for employees to communicate and work on things together, says that it today has tens of thousands of organisations using its platform. Now to pick up more, and to bring more of […]
View More Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrationsInstagram launches video chat
Facebook today announced that Instagram, its popular photo sharing platform, is getting support for video chats, among a couple of other new features. As Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted in his F8 keynote today, quite a few Instagram users already use the platform’s live video feature to chat with friends. “People use live […]
View More Instagram launches video chatOculus TV is the VR set-top streaming box you never knew you needed
Alongside the launch of the Oculus Go headset today, Oculus announced that it is working on a new element of its in-headset experience that will appeal to users interested in binging TV inside VR. It’s called Oculus TV and the company hopes that it will evolve to become a quick-and-easy way for VR users to […]
View More Oculus TV is the VR set-top streaming box you never knew you needed$199 Oculus Go VR headset goes on sale today
Today, at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company announced that its cheap and capable Oculus Go virtual reality headset will be going on sale today. The headset costs $199 for the version with 32GB of onboard storage, and $249 for the 64GB variety. We also finally have eyes on the full hardware specs, which only […]
View More $199 Oculus Go VR headset goes on sale todayFacebook re-opens app reviews on its platform
Onstage at Facebook’s developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be re-opening its app review process following the pause it took in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica crisis. “Now, I know that it hasn’t been easy being a developer these past couple months, that’s probably an understatement. What I can assure you […]
View More Facebook re-opens app reviews on its platformWatch Facebook’s F8 keynote live right here
Facebook is hosting its F8 developer conference in San Jose this week. The event comes at an interesting time for the company. In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it made a couple of sudden changes to how developers can access some data on its platform. We expect Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to […]
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