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WhatsApp launches short video messages

Popular messaging platform, WhatsApp, has unveiled a new feature that allows users to record and share short videos lasting up to 60 seconds directly in chats. According to WhatsApp, this update aims to revolutionize communication on the platform. In a blog post, WhatsApp explained, “Video messages are a real-time way to respond to chats with […]

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28th July 2023
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Facebook to shut down news tab in US, Australia

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Meta considers strategies to ‘hook’ users on Threads

Executives at Meta are putting a lot of effort into increasing Threads user retention after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its launch. Despite being “not perfect,” user retention on the text-based app was better than executives had anticipated, according to Zuckerberg, who was addressing at an internal […]

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28th July 2023
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Meta, Microsoft, others join forces to tackle Google

Alex Omenye A group founded by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom, and data from developers may be able to create their own maps to compete with Google Maps and Apple Maps. The Overture Maps Foundation is an organization that was established last year. The group just made available its first open map dataset. With the […]

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27th July 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg beats Elon Musk in billionaire rankings

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Facebook hits 3bn monthly active users

Facebook has more than 3 billion active monthly users, according to the most recent quarterly data from Meta. There were 3.88 billion monthly active users across the entire family of Meta apps, which also includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the recently released Threads. That is over half of all people on the planet. In comparison […]

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27th July 2023
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Australia fines Facebook $14m for data gathering

A court in Australia ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay a total of A$20 million ($14 million) in fines for secretly gathering user data through a smartphone software that was marketed as a privacy protector. The decision on Wednesday concerned Onavo, a virtual private network service that the business, then known as Facebook, provided from […]

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26th July 2023
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WhatsApp unveils feature to allow users create unnamed groups

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WhatsApp back up after global outage

Instant messaging platform, WhatsApp is back up after a massive outage Wednesday, which left billions of users in distress. The downtime of the Meta-owned app affected users’ ability to contact friends and family on a global scale. “We are working quickly to resolve the connectivity issues on WhatsApp and we’ll update you here as soon […]

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19th July 2023
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Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks

Twitter’s latest rival, Instagram’s Threads, announced on Monday that it has tightened rate limits due to spam attacks. Instagram head Adam Mosseri explained the spam problem in a post on the Threads saying, “Spam attacks have picked up so we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to […]

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18th July 2023
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Norway to fine Meta $100k over privacy concerns

Norway’s regulator has threatened to fine Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, one million crowns ($100,000) every day for privacy violations. “It is so clear that this is illegal that we need to intervene now and immediately. We cannot wait any longer,” the head of Datatilsynet’s international section, Tobias Judin, told Reuters. […]

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17th July 2023
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Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges

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Meta blocks access to Threads through VPN – Report

Meta’s Threads app, has disclosed its preventing access to the platform with the use of a virtual private network. According to Techcrunch, the disclosure is coming after receiving numerous complaints from users in the EU who were unable to access the platform. Threads was recently released by Meta, however, due to privacy issues, it is […]

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14th July 2023
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Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls

The parent company of Instagram and Messenger, Meta has made an exciting announcement, introducing a new real-time Avatar feature for video calls. In a recent blog post, Meta shared that users can now utilize their Avatars during video calls on both Instagram and Messenger. These Avatars, which bear a resemblance to Apple’s Memoji avatars, will […]

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12th July 2023
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Meta’s Threads closes in on X with 400m monthly users

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Meta to add branded content tools to Threads

Meta’s Instagram intends to integrate its branded content tools with Threads, according to Reuters. While advertising is not available, these technologies will assist advertisers in collaborating with influencers on paid partnerships on the social media site. The announcement follows Threads, largely regarded as Elon Musk’s Twitter’s rival, reaching 100 million users in a record-breaking five […]

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11th July 2023
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Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage

Meta Platforms, the parent company of popular social media apps Instagram and Facebook, as well as messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter competitor, Threads, is reportedly back after a global outage. The platform experienced a temporary outage on Monday, affecting thousands of users. According to Downdetector.com, the outage lasted over an hour and impacted approximately 14,000 […]

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11th July 2023
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WhatsApp launches short video messages

Meta considers strategies to ‘hook’ users on Threads

Meta, Microsoft, others join forces to tackle Google

Facebook hits 3bn monthly active users

Australia fines Facebook $14m for data gathering

WhatsApp back up after global outage

Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks

Norway to fine Meta $100k over privacy concerns

Meta blocks access to Threads through VPN – Report

Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls

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