YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki won’t divulge her biggest fear about competing with Facebook, but she will give them some free advice. “They should get back to baby pictures,” Wojcicki said Monday at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. (By the way, Facebook’s already aiming in that direction.) Video has been an obsession for Facebook, …
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Facebook is renovating itself to increase users’ “time well spent” there, but the company’s head of News Feed said the social network itself is still figuring out what that means. “We’re trying to figure out how to best measure and understand that,” Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s head of News Feed, said at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. The …
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After previously denying the problem, Twitter said Thursday that a small number of Russian-linked accounts tried to influence the 2016 Brexit referendum. The information was disclosed by Nick Pickles, Twitter’s UK head of public policy and philanthropy, at a UK House of Commons public hearing held in Washington, DC. The company discovered that 49 accounts linked to the Internet Research …
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When we think about innovations in virtual reality, we often think about technological advances: sleeker headsets, more realistic images, gloves that touch what isn’t there. But for VR luminary Chris Milk, the next step forward is something simpler: hanging out with your friends. Milk is the co-founder, with Aaron Koblin, of VR and multimedia company Within (previously known as Vrse). Between …
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Facebook and Instagram may have successfully borrowed a lot of Snap’s designs, but it still has a few tricks up its sleeves. The social networking company, known for its disappearing messages and popularity among teenagers, surprised Wall Street Tuesday when it announced better-than-expected fourth quarter sales of $285.7 million and a daily user count of about 187 million, 5 percent higher …
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Looking to sell some old or unwanted stuff? For a long time the go-to resource was Craigslist, which lets you post local classified ads free of charge. But I’m here to make the case for Facebook Marketplace, which I find superior in nearly every way. Indeed, I’d go so far as to say it’s not only faster and easier than …
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The Super Bowl is also the Super Bowl of commercials. If you want to skip the game and just watch the ads, you can get started right now. There’s no need to wait until kickoff; many of the ads have been leaked online. In this year’s Super Bowl ads, Cardi B, Anthony Hopkins and Rebel Wilson take over for Alexa …
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YouTube’s data-light app YouTube Go, now in 15 countries, will expand to more than 130 nations, the company said in a blog post Thursday. Launched first in India last year, the YouTube Go app is designed to work with little to no connectivity, use less data and make recommendations more tailored to where you live. YouTube Go is also a …
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How do you like to communicate with your elected representative? Residents of the UK’s West Suffolk constituency now have a direct line to theirs thanks to a new app, Matt Hancock MP. The app, available free as on iOS and Android, is a social network based solely on the member of parliament of the same name. Hancock, who is also …
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