Facebook Messenger users will be able to chat with people who are on Instagram without having to download a new app and vice versa, a move that links both services more closely together. Instagram and Facebook Messenger will still remain as standalone apps and a user’s inboxes will stay separate, the companies said. The new …

LinkedIn said Thursday that it’s rolling out a new design for the business-oriented social network, introducing more messaging features and planning to offer Stories, which lets users post photos and videos that vanish in a day, globally. LinkedIn has been testing Stories in certain countries such as Brazil, Australia, France and the Netherlands. Now the company said it’s launching Stories …

Pinterest is testing a tool that allows certain people to post a series of photos and videos that include text, music or voiceovers. “As we look to the future, we’ve decided it’s time to push our mission to inspire even further. It’s time to do more than connect people to what inspires them,” Evan Sharp, Pinterest’s co-founder who leads design efforts …

Facebook said Monday that people who make video calls on Messenger or use its videoconferencing tool Messenger Rooms will be able to watch videos together with their friends and family on their smartphones in real time.  Facebook users can select videos and shows to view through the social network’s video hub, known as Facebook Watch. The feature, called Watch Together, …

Facebook is launching a new online space for college students, a move aimed at making it easier for students to keep in touch with their classmates, share notes and find campus updates. The new product, called Facebook Campus, is also another way for the social network to get young users to stay on the platform as students and teachers shift …

When the National Football League kicks off its season on Thursday, football fans will have a new virtual way to interact with their favorite players during the game. On Tuesday, the NFL, Twitter and Bud Light said that players will see tweets and videos from their fans displayed on a screen in the end zone during a game’s big moments …

Facebook said Wednesday that Apple’s upcoming privacy update could make it tougher for the social network to target some iPhone users with ads on other mobile apps. Facebook offers a service to businesses called the Audience Network, which lets businesses use the social network’s targeting to run ads on thousands of mobile apps. Facebook collects a trove of data from …

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has reportedly thought about buying a small stake in TikTok as part of a group bid for the short-form video app.  A group of companies have reportedly talked about forming a consortium to invest in TikTok but that “effort has fizzled in recent days,” Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. Alphabet wasn’t leading this …

TikTok, known for short videos of people lip-syncing and dancing to their favorite songs, is grappling with a problem familiar to other social networks: hate speech. On Thursday, TikTok said it removed more than 380,000 videos in the US this year for violating its rules against hate speech. The company also banned more than 1,300 accounts for hateful content or …

Instagram said Wednesday it will start suggesting posts at the bottom of your feed based on the accounts that you follow. It’s part of the Facebook-owned social network’s push to make it easier for people to find more content they might be interested in on the site.  Instagram users worldwide will see suggested posts after they’ve finished scrolling through all the …