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, 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 |
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 tweeted it plans to build an online database populated with the information of verified Twitter users.
| News | January 6, 2017 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 have come to light via a SEC filing by his firm and his own statesman-like Facebook posts.
| News | January 5, 2017 |
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 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 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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 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 content removal policies, including its guidelines on hate speech, have been detailed in alleged leaked internal documents.
| News | December 22, 2016 |
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 is introducing social and discovery features to its photography app, including user profiles and a trending feed.
| Mobile | December 21, 2016 |
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 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 |
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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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 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 |
Prescription lenses for Snapchat Spectacles are now available from another lens manufacturer, this time in the form of Glasses USA.
| News | December 15, 2016 |