Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8 here. 1. FaceDate Facebook is launching a dating feature where you can volunteer to make a profile that’s only visible to non-friends […]
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Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8 here. 1. FaceDate Facebook is launching a dating feature where you can volunteer to make a profile that’s only visible to non-friends […]
Everything Facebook launched at F8 and Why
As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of its Internet.org app Free Basics, but the program isn’t working out everywhere. As the Outline originally reported and TechCrunch confirmed, the Free Basics program has ended in Myanmar, perhaps Facebook’s most controversial non-Western market at the moment. Its mission statement pledging to “bring more people […]
Facebook’s Free Basics program ended quietly in Myanmar last year
A couple years ago I was eagerly expectant of an app that would identify anything you pointed it at. Turns out the problem was much harder than anyone expected — but that didn't stop high school senior Michael Royzen from trying. His app, SmartLens, attempts to solve the problem of seeing something and wanting to identify and learn more about it — with mixed success, to be sure, but it's something I don't mind having in my pocket.
‘SmartLens’ app created by a high schooler is a step ...
Have you ever turned off Facebook’s notifications or even deleted the app entirely on your birthday, simply to avoid the non-stop barrage of alerts that someone had posted “Happy Birthday!” to your timeline? A fix may be in the works, as it turns out. An update to how Facebook will handle birthday notifications was given […]
Facebook wants to fix the ‘Happy Birthday’ spam problem by ...
Facebook is adding support for in-app purchases to its Instant Games platform, the company announced during a session on gaming at its F8 developer conference this afternoon. The feature will allow game developers to add another form of monetization beyond advertising to their games on select platforms, but not on iOS. Instead, support for in-app […]
In-app purchases are coming to Facebook’s Instant Games on Android ...
Snapchat’s redesign was a disaster. It cratered ad views and revenue and led Snapchat’s user count to actually shrink in March. That’s why CEO Evan Spiegel just announced a big reversal of the redesign’s worst part. “We learned that combining watching Stories and communicating with friends into the same place made it harder to optimize […]
Snapchat scrambles to fix failed redesign, moves Stories to Discover
Oculus Go, Facebook for dating, and a suite of new features for Instagram and WhatsApp.
Everything Facebook Announced Today at F8
On the heels of Facebook announcing its intent to add a dating element to its platform, dating company Match’s stock is suffering. Match is the brand behind dating services like Tinder, Match, OK Cupid and Plenty of Fish. At the time of publication, Match’s stock was trading down about 22 percent. Facebook’s entrance in this […]
Match stock is tanking in light of Facebook’s dating play
Facebook made a small but interesting announcement at the end of its F8 keynote today: you’ll soon be able to post 3D photos to your news feed. For now, we know very little about this feature — or even how you’ll capture these photos — but chances are you’ll see them pop up in your […]