Facebook quietly launches Mac and PC Workplace Chat apps with screen share
TechCrunch has discovered that Facebook has stealthily launched official desktop PC and Mac chat apps with screen sharing — two features users have been begging for. Right now, they’re only available for Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise collaboration software that competes with Slack and other business apps. But users would surely enjoy if the consumer Messenger app got its… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/XkE0afViVyU/
Facebook tries fighting fake news with publisher info button on links
Facebook thinks showing Wikipedia entries about publishers and additional Related Articles will give users more context about the links they see. So today it’s beginning a test of a new “i” button on News Feed links that opens up an informational panel. “People have told us that they want more information about what they’re reading” Facebook product manager… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/3_dW4i0D0Sc/
21Buttons, a social-commerce app dedicated to fashion, closes $10M Series A
21Buttons, a social-commerce app that lets fashion influencers share their wardrobe, has closed $10 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Kibo Ventures, and JME VC. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/V9nXkwAxFvU/
Instagram Stories launches cross-posting to Facebook Stories
Facebook Stories might not be a ghost town for long. After testing in Portugal last month, TechCrunch spotted the option to syndicate your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories appearing to US users. Now Facebook confirms this feature is officially rolling out, and everyone should have it soon if not already. The only exception is businesses, since they’re not allowed on Facebook… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/xt-bXVA9V2Q/
Senate Intel committee calls on Facebook to release Russian ads
In an update on the progress of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, the Senate Intelligence Committee weighed in on recent revelations that have implicated major tech companies. The committee plans to hear open public testimony from Facebook, Twitter and Google on November 1 pertaining to their role in selling political ads to Russian government entities. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/mlmyzFaFGwI/
UK gives WhatsApp another spanking over e2e crypto
The UK government has once again bared its anti-technology teeth in public, leaning especially heavily on messaging platform WhatsApp for its use of end-to-end encryption security tech, and calling it out for enabling criminals to communicate in secret. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/6Y5FHjcfyDY/
LinkedIn to launch Talent Insights, a new analytics tool, as it dives deeper into data
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 500 million members, has made a large business out of recruitment — with some 11 million job listings on the site at any given time, and the recruitment market providing the company with its largest source of revenue. Now it is taking another step ahead in building out that business with a new product:… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/lEx1Uo54SWM/
Tinder taps comedian Whitney Cummings to launch ‘Reactions’
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and iMessage, Tinder has today introduced Reactions, letting Tinder users send each other custom animated responses. These reactions include Hearts, Eye Roll, Round of Applause, Martini Throw, etc. This makes it even easier for Tinder users to casually use the app without actually having to work at the conversation. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/h3fvyMzaVec/
DeepMind now has an AI ethics research unit. We have a few questions for it…
DeepMind, the U.K. AI company which was acquired in 2014 for $500M+ by Google, has launched a new ethics unit which it says will conduct research across six “key themes” — including ‘privacy, transparency and fairness’ and ‘economic impact: inclusion and equality’. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/ar5g4QC6kLo/
Instagram Stories mimics Polly with new polls
Polly blew up with teens last month by tacking multiple-choice polling onto Snapchat. Instagram is following suit with its own polling feature within Stories. Now just like adding a location sticker, you can add a two-answer poll on top of your Stories that friends can answer with a tap. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/b6VYMvYQOpo/
Shopify rolling out Instagram shopping feature to thousands of merchants
Online commerce giant Shopify is ready for its Instagram moment: The one-stop shop platform provider is opening up its Instagram integration to thousands of its merchants leading up to the holiday season. The platform expansion adds yet another sales channel to the considerable quiver Shopify providers sellers, which includes Facebook, Messenger, Buzzfeed and others, too.
Instagram’s… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/kG9YnNbtGZ0/
Challenge to data transfer tool used by Facebook will go to Europe’s top court
Facebook has bought itself a little more time over a major legal challenge in Europe after the Irish High Court decided not to strike down a b2b mechanism it uses to transfer user data to the U.S. for processing. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/6OCCG7Ek-Us/
Snapchat to launch augmented reality art platform tomorrow
Snapchat plans to launch a new augmented reality art platform featuring pop artist Jeff Koons and others. It will allow art to be pinned to specific locations in augmented reality so users can see it when they hold up their phones in the right spot. Snapchat will solicit sign-ups from artists who want their art added to the platform. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/2b5bKnat84k/
The sorrow of Biz Stone
A friend of mine wakes up every morning and reports every single instance of crass, homophobic, and racist behavior she sees on Twitter. She sees it as her duty, an ordering of things in an unordered stream. Her efforts are quixotic at best because when she wakes up and rubs the sleep out of her eyes the firehose still rages. Why does she have to do this? Because of Twitter’s success and… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/s7SGHLfrmQQ/
Bumble’s business networking feature launches today
About a year ago we reported that Bumble would soon launch BumbleBizz – a swipe-based networking tool that is designed to help people make professional connections. And now the feature is finally rolling out today to users in the US, UK, Germany, France and Canada. Essentially BumbleBizz will use the same types of parameters that regular Bumble does – your location, network,… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/utvaSJcQgnE/
Search and social media was filled with clickbait and propaganda in the wake of Vegas shooting
Letting an algorithm cull links from the sewer of internet commentary, and then distributing that to millions of people, is a losing game. It’s another sign of how Facebook and the rest continue to abdicate responsibility. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/6yRJnXLoWms/
Facebook brings data plan-saving Messenger Lite to U.S. Androids
Facebook’s data-conserving version of Messenger is no longer just for developing nations with slow networks: the Messenger Lite Android app is expanding to the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Ireland after previously being available in more than 100 mostly-developing countries. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/TTys-6bwGLo/
Germany’s social media hate speech law is now in effect
A new law has come into force in Germany aimed at regulating social media platforms to ensure they remove hate speech within set periods of receiving complaints — within 24 hours in straightforward cases or within seven days where evaluation of content is more difficult. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/PRnEWllyaSg/
Facebook will hire 1,000 and make ads visible to fight election interference
Facebook today handed over to congressional investigators 3,000 ads that were bought by a Russian company to influence U.S. politics. “Many appear to exploit racial and social divisions and exploit ugly stereotypes. We find this interference deeply offensive,” a Facebook spokesperson wrote this morning. Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/JgEUS3_yyQI/
Hey! VINA, the female-focused friendship app, launches on Android
Hey! VINA, the female-focused friend finding app, has today announced the launch of an Android app. The VINA app is almost identical to Tinder, except the end-result is to find women a new friend instead of a hot date. That said, VINA only shows one photo of the user, and instead of relying fully on swipes, it uses a matching algorithm that takes into account mutual friends, location,… Read More Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techcrunch/social/~3/CwQdGzBHyXo/ Source: https://techcrunch.com/
