Facebook is closing its Oculus Story Studio, the award-winning unit that crafted computer-generated short films for the social networking giant’s VR headset maker Oculus. The closure of the 2-year-old studio, which produced such shorts as “Dear Angelica” and “Henry,” was announced in a blog post Thursday by Jason Rubin, Oculus’ vice president of content. “We’ve …
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Facebook has been facing a torrent of criticism over its slow reaction to murder and suicide videos posted to the site. In response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said the social network will be hiring an additional 3,000 people to monitor its Facebook Live videos and other problematic posts on the site. We discuss whether that effort will be enough …
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Video is big business on social media, and Twitter is hoping to cash in alongside Bloomberg. The social media platform is partnering with the financial media company to broadcast 24/7 news. The breaking news channel will will launch this fall, the parties said during Bloomberg Media’s NewFront presentation in New York. The stream will show live reports from Bloomberg journalists …
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Instagram experienced issues Monday that prevented users from uploading images to the photo-sharing app’s new Stories feature. Facebook-owned Instagram said in a tweet Monday afternoon it was aware of the problem and was working on a fix. The problem didn’t appear to prevent users from viewing previously uploaded images. Facebook, which bought Instagram for $1 billion five years ago, has …
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President and Mrs. Obama used to use the social media accounts that are specifically for the POTUS and First Lady in office. Now that their time in the White House is over, they have their own accounts. Here’s how to keep up with the Obamas. The presidential couple’s history online The Obamas made history with their online lives. While in …
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Requests for Facebook user information from law enforcement agencies around the world increased by 9 percent in the last half of 2016, the company reported Thursday. The figure came as part of Facebook’s global government requests report, which it puts out twice a year. In total, law enforcement asked for user information 64,279 times, compared with 59,229 requests from the …
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Facebook Lite is beginning to look more and more like its big brother. The social networking giant today introduced new features from the original Facebook app to Facebook Lite, according to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. These include India-specific camera effects and the Reactions feature. The plans were originally announced at A Place to Connect, an event Facebook held yesterday. India …
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Over the course of two years, Google and Facebook wired $100 million to an imposter as victims of a long-con phishing attack, Fortune found. In March, the US Department of Justice published an indictment against a Lithuanian man, Evaldas Rimasauskas, for “orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise scheme that induced two U.S.-based internet companies” to send more than $100 million …
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A university in India wants to boost its students’ social-media game. The English Department at Delhi University (DU) has proposed a new course that will teach its students to write better Facebook posts, reports Hindustan Times. It would also help students craft blogs and cover letters. “The draft has taken approximately 2 years to complete and has been cleared by …
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It appears that on social media, we’re way more into pics showing the chicken dish you made last night and selfies of Selena Gomez and the Kardashians than President Donald Trump’s tweetstorms. On Wednesday, Twitter said it gained 9 million more monthly active users since the end of 2016, jumping up to 328 million users overall. That’s 7 million more …
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