Tencent, the Chinese internet giant valued at $470 billion, may have a hand in rebooting the Snapchat app to make it more competitive with Instagram and Facebook.
Off the back of some very poor financials announced this week, parent company Snap said it is retooling the messaging app “to make it easier to use.”
Now Tencent, which upped its stake in Snap with the purchase of 12… Read More
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Is social media getting in the way of our happiness?
Happiness expert and researcher Shawn Achor breaks down happiness and how it relates to social media. Read more…More about Facebook, Mashable Video, Happiness, Mental Health, and Happy
View More Is social media getting in the way of our happiness?Greta Van Susteren is releasing an apology app called Sorry
Former cable news anchor Greta Van Susteren is ready to jump into the app market with an apology app, according to a Facebook post she put up today. Susteren says in the post she’ll be releasing her first app ‘Sorry,’ which she’s spent over a year on already, to let people send apologies to one another. “SNAPCHAT AND INSTAGRAM are about to get some… Read More
DST Global letter to LPs denies impropriety in Facebook, Twitter investments
DST Global, the investment firm led by Yuri Milner, has sent a letter to its limited partners blasting media outlets for “insinuations” that it used its holdings in Twitter and Facebook as anything other than financial investments, after it was revealed that the Russian government was indirectly an investor in DST Global. The letter, provided to TechCrunch by a source, comes in… Read More
Famed VC Jim Breyer on finding the next Mark Zuckerberg (and much more)
Yesterday, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, we caught up with Jim Breyer, among the most famous venture capitalists in Silicon Valley thanks to a decades-long track record of smart bets, most notably in Facebook. Breyer was the managing partner at Accel Partners, which invested $12.7 million in Facebook in 2005 when the company was priced around $100 million; that bet proved to be… Read More
What 280 characters means for Twitter’s future
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At its core, the internet as we know it exists in a state of permanent contradiction where everything both simultaneously lasts forever and is constantly in flux.
It’s perhaps fitting then that Twitter, the social media service most identified with brevity, has doubled the upper character limit its users can tweet, while at the same time insisting the fundamental change in no way alters its essence.
But can Twitter thrive in this liminal state of concise and verbose, and what does the change mean for a platform that struggles to add real users at the same time it fails to identify and delete fake ones? Read more…
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Facebook’s testing a new method to prevent revenge porn that requires uploading your nudes
Facebook is testing a new method to combat revenge porn in Australia, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation reports. The strategy entails uploading your nude photos or videos to Messenger in order to help Facebook tag it as non-consensual explic…
View More Facebook’s testing a new method to prevent revenge porn that requires uploading your nudesSnap is having a bad day
Ho boy — there are bad days and there are bad days in earnings season, and this is definitely the latter for Snap. The company released its quarterly report for its financial performance in the third quarter this year, and as a result, the company’s stock is absolutely cratering. It’s bad even by recent-IPO status, which are especially vulnerable to swings in shares as… Read More
Snapchat just teased a major redesign
Snap really isn’t looking so hot to Wall Street, and so they’re making some radical changes.
“One thing that we have heard over the years is that Snapchat is difficult to understand or hard to use, and our team has been working on responding to…
Facebook introduces a Messenger plugin for business websites
Facebook Messenger is coming to businesses’ own websites. The social network announced today the launch of a new customer chat plugin into closed beta, which will allow customers to talk directly with businesses on their websites using Messenger, and continue those conversations across web, mobile and tablet devices. While there are already plenty of customer support and chat plugins… Read More
Instagram pushes more influencers to adopt its new format for sponsored posts
Instagram is moving forward with the rollout of its branded content tool, which allows celebrities and other popular users to identify posts that are paid for by advertisers. The company first introduced the tool in June, then made it available t…
View More Instagram pushes more influencers to adopt its new format for sponsored postsFinally, Instagram is getting serious about influencers tagging #ads
Instagram wants more people to share when they’re being paid to post.
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The Facebook-owned app announced Tuesday it will expand its official branded content program. Now, mor…