Facebook Ok, the topic is #humpday: Make a video! That’s the gist of Facebook’s newest app, called Riff, which encourages people to upload videos, tag them with a topic and then invite friends to respond and add content. People can create any topic they want from “#shakeitoff” to “game face.” “Our hunch was that if …
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With Dash Buttons, Amazon hopes to make ordering products even easier. Amazon Nearly two decades ago, Amazon launched one-click ordering, making it easy for customers to buy anything on its site with a simple button-click. Now it’s bringing that technology to the real world. The Web shopping giant said Tuesday it’s launching Dash Buttons, a followup to the Dash remote …
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Facebook’s new Messenger Platform will let third-party apps and services integrate with the chat app to send messages and other items directly through Messenger. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — For the past eight years, Facebook has focused its efforts on ways to help developers across the Web interact with its social-networking service. Now, it’s coming up with new ways for …
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Brian Acton of WhatsApp disappointed some in the audience at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. Paul Sakuma What does $19 billion buy you? Sometimes, it’s a spot of trouble. That’s what Facebook found out at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco on Wednesday when executives tried to explain to an eager crowd of app developers why it wasn’t going to …
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Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg works to fire up the legion of developers attending the F8 conference in San Francisco. James Martin/CNET SAN FRANCISCO — A year ago, Mark Zuckerberg walked on a San Francisco stage promising a better relationship between Facebook and app developers. On Wednesday, he followed through. As CEO of the world’s largest social network, Zuckerberg touted initiatives …
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Facebook’s developer conference is being held in San Francisco on Wednesday. Facebook is set to kick off its annual F8 conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, and as in years past the confab will be more focused on developers than the people who actually use the service. The world’s largest social-networking company is expected to discuss a variety of topics …
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Mark Zuckerberg wants app developers to help him move with the times. Facebook last year changed its unofficial motto from “move fast and break things” to “move fast with stable infrastructure,” a sign it would stop inflicting weird or inconsistent programming on its partners. Now Facebook’s CEO and co-founder is expected to deliver a new message to programmers gathering for …
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Facebook’s Messenger is piling on new features. Want an easy way to send money to your friends? Facebook hopes you’ll turn to its newly beefed-up Messenger app for that, instead of relying on a growing list of competitors trying to siphon off its users. The social-networking service on Tuesday said Facebook friends can now send cash to one another for …
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Apple’s got a lot of apps it’s planning for launch of Apple Watch. Apple Apple says the time for watch apps has begun. During an event in San Francisco Monday, the world’s largest tech company showed a variety of apps from companies including Uber, Salesforce.com and American Airlines, designed for its new smartwatch, which will go on sale in April. …
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Apple’s expanding its efforts in health technology. James Martin Apple is striking new partnerships in medical research. At its “Spring Forward” event Monday, the company said it has built new software called ResearchKit, which will help medical professionals build apps. Apple said it has already worked with groups at Oxford and Stanford, helping them build apps and technologies to assist …
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