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A coalition of progressive groups is planning to launch an advertising campaign to get the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to split Facebook into several companies and break up its monopoly. The group want the FTC to break off Inst...
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Facebook is exploring plans to create its own cryptocurrency which would allow users to make electronic payments with a Bitcoin-like technology. Facebook had started studying blockchain about a year ago, and recently the firm c...
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Snapchat has redesigned its app redesign for iOS users. Earlier this year, the firm shipped an updated app merging the stories and chats screens, as well as changing the Story system so it showed stories determined by an algorithm...
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With social media firms being under scrutiny for their approach to user privacy, you’d think Silicon Valley would be sure to dot every i and cross every t, but that’s just not how tech works. Twitter today announced v...
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Instagram Stories is getting new integration with Spotify as Facebook expands the capabilities of Instagram. With Spotify’s new share to Instagram Stories feature, users can directly share whatever their listening o in the m...
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WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is leaving the company over disagreements with Facebook about privacy and encryption. WhatsApp was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion and has been key to the firm’s messaging ambitions, t...
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Facebook might be updating Instagram to make it better for Story users as well as improving privacy controls with support for muting users. Muting users will presumably work like it does on Facebook and Twitter, allowing you to re...
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WhatsApp’s Beta app for Windows Phone has been updated to version 2.18.60 with a useful new improvement. The update does not bring any major new features, but what has arrived should help Windows Phone users communicate bet...
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Shortly after a similar ban by Russia last week, Iran may be moving to effect a ban on the Telegram messaging service. According to a report by the Guardian, the middle-eastern country is on the verge of banning the service in the...
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We reported earlier that after a recent update for Instagram for Windows, which brought a number of small features such as threaded comments, the UWP app was no longer available for Windows Phone. It was speculated then that the a...
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Reddit is growing up as the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” gains a new look in the coming weeks. The company announced to users that it would be issuing its redesigned desktop site to a small percentage ...
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Snapcat is finally joining the rest of the messaging world with support for group video calling coming down the pipeline. While Snapchat had supported single video calls and group chats for a while, for some reason, the firm had f...