While Facebook has made great advances in video over the past two years, YouTube remains the undisputed king of online moving pictures. Blockbusters A report from eMarketer estimates that YouTube now has 180.1 million users in the US, and that 85% of digital viewers are on YouTube. Alphabet, YouTube's parent company, recently posted Q4 revenue figures […]
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In lieu of traditional email password recovery, Facebook will be introducing encrypted tokens that can be stored for a rainy day. Brad Hill gives his two cents Facebook engineer Brad Hill announced at the USENIX Enigma conference that a new step in personal cyber-security was underway. The interest in this new form of security back-up is due
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Hot on the heels of Snapchat, Instagram added some new features for a surge at the start of the year. Make your Instastories pop with stickers Stickers have proven incredibly popular with Snapchat users. Hoping to emulate that success, Instagram now lets users add stickers to their video and photo stories. Instagram's spin on Snapchat’s
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With precisely zero fanfare, Twitter changed the way it picks and shows search results. Following Facebook Emulating how Facebook handles its feed, Twitter search now shows the most 'relevant' posts first rather than the latest ones. Aware that not everyone will like the change, Twitter remains flexible. Users can still manually filter their search results
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Looking to connect with even more people on Facebook? Now there's a feature that may boost your digital buddy count. Friendship Circle? The Facebook app on iOS and Android now includes Discover People. The feature displays a list of Facebook users who live in your area, are employed by your company, or are attending the
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As Snapchat prepares to go public, evidence shows that copycat tactics from Instagram are making a serious dent in user numbers. Suspiciously familiar Competitors aping each other’s best features, especially in app-land, is nothing new. Still, when Instagram rolled out ‘Stories’ last year, many were shocked at just how blatantly the feature copied
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Popular messaging app Viber has taken a page out of Snapchat’s book and launched ‘secret messages’, where photo and video messages disappear after they’re viewed. Top-secret Viber is one of a few messaging apps that pride themselves on the security of your personal conversations. In April of 2016, for example, both Viber and WhatsApp announced
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Facebook has tinkered with the News Feed in an effort to cough up more relevant stories. Sing me a song Facebook is teaming new signals with a real-time prediction algorithm to better identify stories considered authentic and more targeted to your preferences. Facebook also takes into account the relationship between you and the user or
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First there was mobile. Then there was video and live streaming. Now Facebook is turning its gaze towards television. Watch this space Facebook is reportedly working on developing a TV app for streaming set-top boxes. The app would work with Apple TV, and is being seen as a way to woo Facebook users into longer
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Dropbox’s latest app has exited the beta phase and poised to bring real-time documents to its list of services. Welcome to Paper. Paper cuts Google Anyone familiar with Google Docs will find the layout of Paper fairly intuitive. The added benefit of real-time document editing allows team members to work on projects simultaneously. Paper offers
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