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Instagram Videos Are About to Get Extra Long
Fresh off a controversy about its impending shuffling of users’ news feeds, Instagram is now messing with its videos--for the better. On Tuesday, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook fb said it’s...
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KLM is the First Airline to Start Using Facebook Messenger
Facebook’s popular chat app Messenger has signed on its first airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, as the social network aims to turn the app into a one-stop shop for commerce, transportation, customer...
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Ticketmaster and Eventbrite Will Soon Sell Tickets Via Facebook
To sell more tickets, Ticketmaster is going straight where consumers are hanging out: Facebook. The company will begin to sell tickets through Facebook FB by the end of April, according to BuzzFeed....
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Facebook Has Paid Out $9.5 Billion to Developers to Date
In 2007, Facebook opened up its doors to developers outside of the company, and that community has come a long way since then. The world’s largest social network has paid out more than $9.5 billion to...
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Judge Partly Dismisses Twitter Lawsuit Over Government Data Requests
A U.S. judge on Monday partly dismissed a lawsuit filed by Twitter in which the social media company argued it should be allowed to publicly disclose more details about requests for information it...
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Twitter Adds ‘Connect’ Tab to Attract More Users
A new Connect tab on Twitter’s mobile app makes it easier for people to find accounts to follow, the social network said on Tuesday as it launched the new feature to attract more users. The tab...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg Tries To Make Nice With Top Conservatives
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with conservatives on Wednesday in an effort to counter allegations that the social network suppresses right-wing articles and news sources. “I know many conservatives...
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Nasdaq Rejects Listing Application by Cannabis Social Network
Stock exchange operator Nasdaq has rejected a listing application by MassRoots on the grounds that it may aid in the use and dealing of an illegal substance, the cannabis social networking company said...
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Facebook Takes Steps to Prevent Suicide
Over the years, Facebook has gone from being a clever site for Harvard students to look up their classmates to a place where users share everything from news articles to baby photos--and unfortunately,...
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Twitter Is An ‘Inevitable’ Social Network Acquisition
Is it Twitter’s turn to be acquired? At least one analyst believes it’s only a matter of time. Speaking to The New York Times in an interview published on Friday, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Internet...
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Facebook
Facebook is 12 years old and one of the best known services and brands in the world, with more than 1.65 billion users worldwide. This year, the company nabbed the No. 157 spot on Fortune 500 list. But...
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Here’s What Tumblr Is Doing About Live Video Broadcasting
Why build a video broadcasting tool when you have friends who already have one? That’s exactly what Tumblr, the quirky blogging service Yahoo yhoo acquired in 2013 for $1.1 billion, apparently said to...
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Twitter Adds Former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to Its Board
Twitter has added a social media veteran to its board of directors. On Tuesday, the company announced it has appointed Bret Taylor to its board. Taylor was Facebook’s chief technology officer from 2009...
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Twitter Takes On Its Most Difficult Challenge Again: Explaining Itself
Twitter’s new chief marketing officer is taking on her biggest challenge to date: Explaining the 10-year-old service to, well, much of the world. On Monday, Leslie Berland, who took over the job in...
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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...
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Facebook 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...
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Facebook’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...
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LinkedIn 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...
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These 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...
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Facebook 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...
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