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It’s now much easier to follow someone you meet on Instagram. No words need be exchanged nor letters tapped. With Instagram Nametags, you can simply scan each other’s account to follow each other quickly and easily.  If you’ve dabbled with Snapchat’s Snapcodes, Instagram Nametags will look and feel instantly familiar. Here’s how Instagram Nametags work. …

Facebook Stories, a timeline of photos that disappears after 24 hours, has hit a milestone of 300 million people using it every day via its namesake social network and messaging service Facebook Messenger, the company said Wednesday. At a presentation in New York on the sidelines of Advertising Week, Facebook also said that it’s opening up advertising in Facebook Stories to all …

Snap’s photo-taking sunglasses are getting a makeover. On Wednesday, Snap, the parent company of app Snapchat, launched two new styles of Spectacles 2 called Nico and Veronica. They have the same functions as the original Spectacles 2, but look more like traditional sunglasses and cost $200, a $50 price increase. Spectacles 2 were unveiled in April and introduced new features …

A malicious edit to the label for New York City on map service Mapbox made it past a monitoring system, resulting in an anti-Semitic slur briefly showing up on apps and sites Thursday morning, including Snapchat’s Snap Map and Zillow’s StreetEasy. Before the slur, “Jewtropolis,” was removed, several people pointed it out on Twitter.  Mapbox posted a statement saying its team …

Pandora subscribers have a new way to share songs, playlists and albums with friends. Now, from inside the Pandora app, you can send music to friends via Snapchat, the company said via blog post Wednesday. “Music is meant to be enjoyed with others and now with Pandora Premium, listeners get the benefit of personalized, on-demand listening — along with the …

Facebook has removed its Onavo security app from Apple’s App Store after the iPhone maker reportedly determined the app violated its privacy rules. Apple officials told Facebook last week that Onavo violated the company’s policies on data collection by developers and suggested Facebook voluntary remove the app, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The app, which bills itself as a …

Ever wish you could spice up a video chat with flying asteroids? After announcing big plans for augmented reality features on its apps back in May, Facebook is making good on that AR promise with the launch of Messenger Games — games that use your camera to animate your face in real-time during a Messenger video chat. Facebook is launching …

Snapchat will end Snapcash on August 30, as its payment transfer service faces competition on multiple fronts. A Snapchat spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch on Sunday that the service will be discontinued. “Yes, we’re discontinuing the Snapcash feature as of August 30, 2018,” the company wrote. “Snapcash was our first product created in partnership with another company — Square. We’re thankful for …

I’m going to be 50 this year (the horror, the horror), which means, among other things, I don’t “get” Snapchat. But the kids these days? Oh, yeah. And they’re just the intended audience for Snapchat Spectacles, which debuted in early 2017 and became an overnight Next Big Thing sensation. After that… well, mostly crickets. Maybe everyone realized $130 was a …

The Google Cloud Platform experienced problems on Tuesday, causing outages for Google Cloud Networking, App Engine and Stackdriver. Services like Snapchat, Pokemon Go and Spotify were also affected.  At 12:34 p.m. PT, Google said it was “investigating a problem with Google Cloud Global Loadbalancers returning 502s,” referring to a message indicating server issues. Google posted the statement on the Cloud Status Dashboard.  At …