Opinion

Facebook’s Beat Games acquisition is a stepping-stone toward Horizon

Ian Hamilton, UploadVR December 1, 2019 3:13 AM

Starting in 2020, China will require videos created using AI or VR to be clearly marked

Reuters November 30, 2019 10:03 AM

Guest

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang’s 2.0 update gives it big social media boost

John Cassillo November 29, 2019 9:37 AM

Opinion

10 years in, WhatsApp still needs true multi-device support

Paul Sawers November 29, 2019 2:20 AM

Workers at Israeli surveillance firm NSO sue Facebook for blocking their personal accounts

Reuters November 27, 2019 6:21 AM

VB Live

The actionable insights AI can unlock from consumer conversation (VB Live)

VB Staff November 26, 2019 4:09 PM

Verizon and Snap team up for Snapchat 5G augmented reality features

Jeremy Horwitz November 21, 2019 6:45 AM

Ctrl-labs CEO: We’ll have neural interfaces in less than 5 years

Emil Protalinski November 20, 2019 10:10 AM

Analysis

Twitter election stunt shows how political groups are brazenly weaponizing social media

Paul Sawers November 20, 2019 6:04 AM

Mythical Games raises $19 million for blockchain-based games with ‘player-owned economies’

Dean Takahashi November 20, 2019 5:00 AM

Bunch raises $3.85 million for social mobile party app for gamers

Dean Takahashi November 20, 2019 4:00 AM

Microsoft Teams passes 20 million daily users, up more than half in 4 months

Reuters November 19, 2019 11:32 PM

HackNotice Premium taps machine learning to tell you exactly what was exposed for $50 per year

Emil Protalinski November 19, 2019 7:00 AM

Aira, Microsoft, and Moovit make public transport more accessible for the visually impaired

Paul Sawers November 19, 2019 5:35 AM

Facebook now detects 80% of hate speech proactively

Kyle Wiggers November 13, 2019 9:30 AM

Freshworks nabs $150 million to bring cloud and automation tools to customer engagement teams

Paul Sawers November 13, 2019 8:08 AM

Facebook Pay unites payment service across Facebook’s apps

Reuters November 12, 2019 10:58 PM

Twitter proposes flagging deepfakes, but would only remove content that threatens harm

Paul Sawers November 11, 2019 8:03 AM

Lenovo pilots VR as an alternative to general anesthesia for kids

Jeremy Horwitz November 9, 2019 4:00 PM

Lawmakers call for pause on false micro-targeted political ads

Reuters November 8, 2019 1:28 AM

WhatsApp Business launches Catalogs to let small businesses share products

Khari Johnson November 7, 2019 4:00 AM

Facebook cut off developer access to user data to squash potential rivals

Reuters November 7, 2019 12:54 AM

Avaaz: Facebook will see a ‘tidal wave’ of fake news ahead of the 2020 elections

Chris O'Brien November 6, 2019 4:30 AM

WhatsApp now lets everyone control who can add them to a group

Paul Sawers November 6, 2019 4:14 AM

Analysis

Facebook comparing Libra to the open internet rings hollow

Paul Sawers November 5, 2019 11:14 AM

Facebook Marketplace draws scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators

Reuters November 1, 2019 2:06 AM

Hackers used WhatsApp to spy on senior government officials in at least 20 countries

Reuters October 31, 2019 12:49 PM

Twitter will ban political ads starting November 22

Reuters October 30, 2019 3:59 PM

Facebook beats Q3 2019 revenue and profit estimates despite regulator scrutiny

Reuters October 30, 2019 2:28 PM

Moovit taps Waze to bring carpooling to its urban transport app

Paul Sawers October 30, 2019 5:01 AM

Facebook drops U.K. appeal against Cambridge Analytica fine, but admits no liability

Paul Sawers October 30, 2019 3:35 AM

WhatsApp sues surveillance firm NSO for allegedly helping spies hack phones

Reuters October 29, 2019 9:58 PM

Hootsuite taps Proofpoint for AI-powered predictive compliance tool

Emil Protalinski October 28, 2019 6:00 AM

Fortnite’s blank screen propels a social video comeback

John Cassillo October 27, 2019 6:16 AM

Facebook takes down false ad placed as a stunt by left-leaning PAC

Reuters October 26, 2019 6:46 PM

Facebook alters video to make people invisible to facial recognition

Khari Johnson October 25, 2019 11:12 AM

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook News won’t provide data to advertisers

Kyle Wiggers October 25, 2019 11:05 AM

Facebook News launches for a subset of U.S. users

Kyle Wiggers October 25, 2019 3:00 AM

Twitter now proactively removes half of all abusive tweets, up from 43% in Q2 2019

Paul Sawers October 24, 2019 5:29 AM

Twitter Q3 2019 revenue jumps 9% to $824 million, ‘monetizable daily users’ grow 17% to 145 million

Paul Sawers October 24, 2019 4:13 AM