5 Things We Learned From This Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO and one of its co-founders, is widely praised as one of the tech industry’s most successful entrepreneurs. Zuckerberg started Facebook with a few friends as a...
View ArticleFacebook Is Taking a Different Approach With Its New App for Teens
Facebook is finally taking a different approach to winning over young users. The social network on Friday introduced yet another app for sharing photos and videos intended to challenge its fast-growing...
View ArticleFacebook’s News Feed Rocked the News Headlines 10 Years Ago
“Facebook, America’s number two social network behind MySpace,” are the first few words of a story 10 years ago on tech news site Mashable. It seems improbable today, but this ranking was indeed...
View ArticleLinkedIn Hopes a New Design and Chat Bots Will Dazzle Users
Professional social network LinkedIn is finally redesigning the desktop computer version of its homepage. The long-awaited facelift comes about nine months after the company completed a similar...
View ArticleThese Major Tech Companies Are Interested in Acquiring Twitter
Some of the technology industry’s most prominent companies are interested in acquiring Twitter this year, according to a new report. Internet giant Google GOOGL and customer relationship management...
View ArticleFacebook at Work Could Be Reporting for Duty Soon
Facebook at Work is about to report for duty. The social networking company’s long-awaited foray into business applications will formally debut in London on October 10, according to tech site...
View ArticleFacebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Says She’s Not Leaving For A Government Job
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said she is uninterested in becoming Treasury or Commerce Secretary if Hillary Clinton is elected president. “I’m staying at Facebook,” Sandberg said on...
View ArticleFacebook’s Messenger App Wants to Help You Strike Up a Conversation
Robots are taking over everything--even conversations with friends. Facebook is reportedly testing giving users of its Messenger app suggestions about what they should talk about, according to Chris...
View ArticleTwitter COO Adam Bain to Leave the Company
Twitter COO Adam Bain is stepping down amid the social media company’s struggles to add new users. “After 6 years and a once-in-a-lifetime run, I let Jack know that I am ready to change gears and do...
View ArticlePinterest Is Making It Easier to Track Project Ideas You’ve Tried
Pinterest wants to be more helpful. The online pin board has introduced a “Tried it” button that lets users mark recipes and projects posted on the service that they’ve tried. For example, users who...
View ArticleSnapchat Spectacles Are Fetching $1,000 Or More on Ebay
In an early sign of high demand, sci-fi sunglasses from the parent company of Snapchat are selling for markups of 700% or more on eBay. The new Spectacles, stylish glasses that can record 10-second...
View ArticleThis Adult Social Network Was Just Hacked Again
Data attached to more than 412 million user accounts have been stolen in a hack of FriendFinder Network, which operates adult sites, including adult dating site AdultFriendFinder, according to ZDNet....
View ArticleHere’s One Reason Facebook Doesn’t Want to Admit to Being a Media Company
As Facebook struggles to respond to criticism about how much responsibility--if any--it bears for a wave of fake news that engulfed the social network during the U.S. election campaign, CEO Mark...
View ArticleFacebook Reportedly Built a Censorship Tool For a Possible Return To China
Facebook has developed technology that could finally make its service palatable to Chinese authorities, who have blocked it since 2009. The social network giant has quietly built a tool for blocking...
View ArticleHow This Quirky Clothing Brand Is Using Snapchat to Sell More Shorts
The world is in danger: The evil Pants Co. wants to hypnotize everyone watching TV into working on the weekends. The Shorts Guys can save the weekend, but they’ll have to travel back in time to stop...
View ArticleBig Social Media Companies Team Up to Combat Terrorist Content
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft are teaming up to combat terrorist content on their services, the companies said on Monday. To do that, they will create a shared database with the unique...
View ArticleSean Rad Steps Down as Tinder’s CEO
Tinder gets a new CEO--again. The popular dating apps said on Thursday that Sean Rad, the company’s co-founder, is stepping down as chief executive. He will trade jobs with Tinder’s current chairman,...
View ArticleTwitter CTO Adam Messinger to Leave Company
Twitter’s Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger said in a tweet on Tuesday he would be leaving the company, the latest in a string of high-profile executive departures since founder Jack Dorsey...
View ArticleHere’s What Microsoft Should Fix on LinkedIn Next Year
Now that Microsoft’s $26 billion purchase of LinkedIn is final, here are some suggestions for things that Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella could do to improve the huge--but sometimes...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg Finally Admits Facebook Is a Media Company
It was a small step, perhaps, but still a noteworthy one. After months of denying that Facebook is a media company, Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a recent one-on-one interview with his COO, Sheryl...
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