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People or profit? Facebook papers show deep conflict within

Facebook the company is losing control of Facebook the product — not to mention the last shreds of its carefully crafted, decade-old image as a benevolent company just wanting to connect the world. Thousands of pages of internal documents provided to Congress by a former employee depict an internally conflicted company where data on the […]

Facebook’s ad revenue takes hit from Apple ATT update

Following Facebook’s financial results released on Monday, the social networking giant is anticipating a damaging effect rising from Apple’s iPhone privacy alterations led by Snap Inc’s missed revenue targets. In April, the iOS developer incorporated additional privacy updates to prohibit advertisers from monitoring iPhone users without their permission. Apple’s move fueled fear in digital ad […]

'As seen on TikTok' is the new 'As seen on TV'

Near the Twizzlers and Sour Patch Kids at a New York candy store are fruit-shaped soft jelly candies that earned a spot on the shelves because they went viral on TikTok. A flood of videos last year showed people biting into the fruit gummies’ plastic casing, squirting artificially-colored jelly from their mouths. Store staffers at […]

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Facebook said late Monday that “the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change” and that there is “no evidence that user […]

Slack welcomes Instagram-like stories feature

Slack is jumping on the disappearing stories bandwagon, as the company announced that the feature under the name “Slack Clips” will allow users to share video, audio, and screen recordings in channels and direct messages. Social media is undoubtedly changing the way we communicate. The stories feature that originated from Snapchat and continued to roll […]

LinkedIn breaks up with its stories feature

Looks like Twitter isn’t the only one regretting the adoption of the “Stories” feature, as LinkedIn announced on Tuesday that the employment-networking site is booting out its stories option. Stories, comprised of disappearing videos posted and shared by social media users, were first brought to light by Snapchat before global tech giants followed suit. In […]

Six Must Watch Tech Movies That’ll Keep You on Edge

A deadly virus on the loose and a global lockdown, scenarios only seen in Sci-Fi movies, quickly became a reality to most of humanity. Naturally, several industries took a major blow, as life was on pause indefinitely.  Luckily, technology doesn’t stop for anyone. The tech industry continued to develop, even after outbreaks overwhelmed countries. The rate in which technological […]

UK’s watchdog interrupts Facebook’s deal to acquire Giphy

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled that Facebook owning popular short video animations company Giphy might be detrimental to other platforms since the app is vastly popular amongst the social network’s competitors. As one of the most favored GIF sites, the animations platform provides Facebook, and it’s ecosystem of apps — Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp  — with […]

King of the hill: TikTok is officially the most downloaded app in 2020

Step aside Facebook, as TikTok just got crowned the most downloaded social media app in the world as of 2020, according to survey conducted by digital analytics company App Annie.  Launched in 2016, The Chinese video-sharing platform has since overtaken Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, all of which make up Facebook’s ecosystem. This isn’t a milestone to overlook, as Facebook-owned apps have held the top spot since the survey began in […]

Vidme embeds porn on news websites after domain purchase

A flood of hardcore pornographic content has spread like wildfire on Thursday showing up on news websites after a company called 5 Star Porn HD bought the expired domain for video hosting site Vidme, which went out of business in 2017.  This means that any websites with Vidme embeds now have pornographic content being displayed across their pages including prominent news websites such as The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Huffington Post, and other major sites.  The websites immediately started deleting the pornography from […]