Obama’s farewell address to get the 360 live video treatment

President Barack Obama’s farewell address will be live-streamed in 360 video on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube courtesy of VRScout.

Audio / Video         January 10, 2017

Medium cuts one-third of its staff as it looks beyond ads at new business model

Medium, the publishing platform created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is axing 50 jobs and shutting its offices in New York and Washington D.C.

News         January 7, 2017

Welcome to London: Airbnb is using Twitter live 360 video to showcase travel spots

Airbnb is one of the first brands to jump on Twitter’s recently launched live 360 video feature in order to showcase its global experiences.

News         January 6, 2017

Wikileaks whips up furor after proposing a database of verified Twitter users’ info

Wikileaks tweeted it plans to build an online database populated with the information of verified Twitter users.

News         January 6, 2017

Tinder pranks CES with its multi-user VR headset for couples

Tinder is launching a virtual reality headset. Gotcha! It’s not doing anything of the sort. Instead, the dating app is promoting a fake VR device at CES.

News         January 6, 2017

White House preserves Obama administration’s social media in digital archive

The White House is teaming up with Giphy, MIT, and the Internet Archive to preserve the Obama administration’s social media history.

News         January 6, 2017

Lawsuit alleges Snapchat released false growth numbers to court investors

A lawsuit filed against Snap by a former employee claims the company reported false growth numbers to investors in an effort to inflate its valuation.

News         January 5, 2017

Watch Hollywood’s biggest stars arrive for the Golden Globes live on Twitter

Twitter is partnering with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions to live-stream the Golden Globes red carpet preshow.

News         January 5, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg’s political ambitions under the spotlight after recent activity

Mark Zuckerberg's political ambitions have come to light via a SEC filing by his firm and his own statesman-like Facebook posts.

News         January 5, 2017

Twitter ‘accidentally’ killed usernames in replies, and users weren’t happy

On Thursday, Twitter “accidentally” made an upcoming feature available to everyone on iOS, and the reaction from users was hostile, to say the least.

News         January 4, 2017

Dating app Coffee Meets Bagel taps Yelp, Spotify to help plan your first date

Dating app Coffee Meets Bagel is launching two new web apps powered by Yelp and Spotify that are all about helping you plan the ideal first date.

Mobile         January 4, 2017

Mark Zuckerberg plans to travel to every state for his new year’s resolution

Mark Zuckerberg will be hitting the road to visit every state with his wife Priscilla Chan in tow as part of his latest “personal challenge.”

News         January 3, 2017

Facebook censors 'explicitly sexual' nude statue of Neptune

Facebook is courting controversy following its removal of a photo of an Italian statue of Neptune. The company claims it violates its nudity policy.

News         January 3, 2017

NFL to live-stream Super Bowl, additional games in China on Sina Weibo

The NFL is partnering with Chinese social media giant Sina Weibo to live-stream games on the site, including the Super Bowl.

News         January 3, 2017

Nobody’s perfect: First Facebook, now Twitter has an ad metrics problem

Twitter is adopting one of Facebook's worst traits having revealed it too suffered a video ad metrics blunder for just over a month.

News         December 30, 2016

CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter may start letting users edit tweets

Twitter has spoken. After CEO Jack Dorsey asked users for suggestions for new features, one function won the popular vote: the ability to edit tweets.

News         December 29, 2016

Disney-ABC to kick off slate of Snapchat originals with ‘The Bachelor’ spinoff

Snap is partnering with Disney-ABC Television Group on a slate of original shows for visual messaging app Snapchat, starting with a spinoff of The Bachelor.

News         December 26, 2016

Facebook reveals 27 percent rise in government requests for user data

In its latest report on global government requests, Facebook reveals a 27 percent rise in requests for user account data in the first half of 2016.

News         December 23, 2016

Facebook Mentions app for celebs gets exclusive Live Video features

Facebook is updating its Mentions app with even more features that enable public figures and celebs to schedule, moderate, and edit broadcasts.

Audio / Video         December 22, 2016

Facebook launches holiday greeting cards, other ways to share moments

Facebook will show you messages atop your News Feed to get you to share more. It's the same place it claims to only show you things you’re interested in.

News         December 22, 2016

Facebook’s secretive censorship guidelines allegedly leaked in report

Facebook's content removal policies, including its guidelines on hate speech, have been detailed in alleged leaked internal documents.

News         December 22, 2016

Is Facebook a media company or a tech firm? Zuck suggests it’s a bit of both

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg claims Facebook is neither a traditional media company, nor a traditional tech company. In fact, it's something altogether new.

News         December 22, 2016

Prisma app’s biggest update yet adds profiles and a trending feed

Prisma is introducing social and discovery features to its photography app, including user profiles and a trending feed.

Mobile         December 21, 2016

Twitter will provide data on user who sent seizure-inducing tweet to reporter

In its response to a court order, Twitter has agreed to hand over data relating to an account that allegedly sent a seizure-inducing tweet to a reporter.

News         December 21, 2016

Facebook has radio in its sights with launch of Live Audio broadcasts

Facebook is expanding the ways users can broadcast live with the introduction of Facebook: Live Audio, with launch partners including the BBC and LBC.

News         December 20, 2016

Twitter, Facebook, Google being sued by families of Orlando nightclub victims

A lawsuit filed by the families of victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting claims Twitter, Facebook, and Google provided “material support” to IS.

News         December 20, 2016

Facebook could soon let users block certain types of ‘upsetting’ ads

Facebook is running a new test that allows users to turn off select ads. For now, the test is only being applied to ads from alcohol and parenting ads.

News         December 17, 2016

Facebook reveals second Instant Articles metrics error in the span of a month

Facebook said on Friday that it's discovered a new issue that affected a “small group” of Instant Articles content providers between for just over a month.

News         December 17, 2016

Facebook seeking to procure original shows as part of video expansion

Facebook exec Ricky Van Veen has begun talks with TV studios and other media broadcasters to license original video content for the social network.

News         December 16, 2016

Twitter restricts law enforcement fusion centers from accessing bulk user data

Twitter is cutting off access to a social media monitoring tool for federally funded law enforcement surveillance hubs, known as “fusion centers.”

News         December 16, 2016

Medium users published 7.5 million posts in 2016 — these were the biggest

Medium was a flurry of activity in 2016. The publishing platform, which now boasts 60 million users, today revealed its biggest stories of 2016.

News         December 16, 2016

Dorsey: Twitter thinking about implementing encrypted direct messages

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he’s open to implementing more security features, such as encryption, in regard to direct messages on the platform.

News         December 16, 2016

Instagram now boasts 600M users, with 100M joining over the past six months

Instagram is touting the success of its recent updates as a critical factor in helping it snap up an additional 100 million users over the past six months.

News         December 16, 2016

Glasses USA’s Snapchat Spectacles prescription lenses are priced low

Prescription lenses for Snapchat Spectacles are now available from another lens manufacturer, this time in the form of Glasses USA.

News         December 15, 2016