Online grocery service Instacart appointed Fidji Simo, a longtime Facebook executive and head of the social network’s mobile app, as its new chief executive officer Thursday. Simo will take over the role starting Aug. 2. Apoorva Mehta, the company’s founder and previous CEO, will transition to executive chairman of the board. “I fell in love …
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When the first HTC Vive was released five years ago, it felt like magic. You could fill an entire room with imagination, something that took the competition multiple years and more than one hardware revision to catch up with. But if you’d have asked me back then what the VR market would look like today, I’d have been way off. …
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Influencers and advertisers in Norway will soon have to label photos that have been retouched, according to new regulations passed as an amendment to the country’s Marketing Act last month, Vice reported Tuesday. Norway’s king will determine when the new rule will go into effect. Any ads where someone’s shape, size or skin has been altered will have to include …
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Social media has become a hotbed of extremism as political discourse has increased in recent years, leading Facebook to wonder if you’re worried your friends or acquaintances on the network are becoming extremists. The social media giant has begun serving prompts to some users in the US asking that very question, a company spokesperson said Thursday. It’s also begun notifying …
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Instagram will begin testing new video features over the coming months to make the social media platform compete more directly with TikTok and YouTube. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced the dramatic changes on Wednesday. “We’re no longer a photo-sharing app,” Mosseri said in the video announcement. Video-sharing apps are rapidly expanding, and Mosseri says Instagram aims “to lean into …
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Four of the world’s biggest social media platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok — pledged on Thursday at the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris to bring in improvements to their services that would make women safer online. The promises come after over a year of consultations run by Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation, in which over 120 women experts from …
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A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order blocking a Florida law from going into effect that would have allowed the state to punish social media companies for banning politicians or political candidates from their platforms. US District Judge Robert Hinkle’s preliminary injunction came a day before the law was to go into effect on Thursday. Hinkle found that the …
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Facebook said Tuesday it’s rolling out a new website called Bulletin that will allow writers to create and share paid and free newsletters. The company said it’s starting with a small group of writers and plans to add more. The release of a newsletter product shows that Facebook, like other tech companies, is increasing its efforts to attract more creators …
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Facebook has passed the $1 trillion in market capitalization mark for the first time ever. The social network giant hit $355.64 per share and a market cap of around $1.008 trillion by close of trade Monday. Facebook stock rose by over 4% after a federal court dismissed an antitrust lawsuit against the social media company earlier Monday. The Federal Trade …
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Cheeps, this is my last daily-deal post for CNET. Gasp! I know, it’s a shocker. But after nearly 14 years and over 9,500 (!) posts like this one, I’m ready for a new adventure. It’s hard to say goodbye, mostly because of you, the best damn audience on this here internet. I can’t thank you enough for all the kind …
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