Instagram and WhatsApp experienced an apparent outage on Friday. It began around 1:40 p.m. ET and lasted for more than half an hour. WhatsApp was…
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Social+ payments: Why fintechs need social features
John S. Kim Contributor Share on Twitter John S. Kim is CEO of Sendbird, makers of a customizable chat and messaging API service for mobile…
India asks court to block WhatsApp’s policy update, says new change violates laws
As WhatsApp spends months to address users’ concerns and confusion about its planned policy update, there is evidently one entity it hasn’t had much luck…
Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS
Shortly after Twitter announced it would begin testing a better way to display images on its app, it’s now doing the same for YouTube videos.…
Daily Crunch: YouTube’s TikTok rival launches in the US
YouTube Shorts comes to the U.S., Amazon starts testing electric delivery vans in San Francisco and new data suggests the impact of Google Play’s recent…
Snap acquires Fit Analytics, a fitting technology startup, to double down on fashion and e-commerce
“Snap, Inc. is a camera company,” Snap notes on its homepage, and while a lot of its effort up to now have been about using…
France’s privacy watchdog probes Clubhouse after complaint and petition
Clubhouse, the buzzy but still invite-only social audio app that’s popular with the Silicon Valley technorati, is being investigated by France’s privacy watchdog. The CNIL…
In expanded crackdown, Facebook increases penalties for rule-breaking groups and their members
Facebook this morning announced it will increase the penalties against its rule-breaking Facebook Groups and their members, alongside other changes designed to reduce the visibility…
Instagram adds new teen safety tools as competition with TikTok heats up
Earlier this year, TikTok made an update to its privacy settings and defaults to further lock down the app for its teenage users. This morning,…
Rising encrypted app Signal is down in China
Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn’t last long. The app, which is used for encrypted conversations, is unavailable…