Social Media App Vero is So Popular it Might Kill Facebook and Instagram
There is a new social media app in town that’s been making waves recently. If you happen to use Twitter and Facebook, you may have noticed a lot of recent buzz over an app called Vero.
Date: 2018-02-28

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Date: 2018-02-27

Google Tests ‘Smart Reply,’ Sends Contextual Replies to All Your Favorite Chat Apps
Replying to common messages received via your Android device will soon be a lot easier. Google is developing an app that will give you a selection of preformatted responses allowing you to reply with just one click of a button.
Date: 2018-02-14

Snapchat is Now Selling Merch with Launch of New Snap Store
Is Snapchat trying its hand at eCommerce? That just might be in the works with its launch of a new feature that would essentially enable the company to sell merchandise through the messaging app.
Date: 2018-02-07

Twitter Users are Buying Millions of Fake Followers, Black Market Exposed
Twitter is a platform that has always encouraged—perhaps unwittingly—competition in terms of user popularity. These days, fellow users of the social media platform will gauge your online status based on the number of likes your tweets generate, the number of times they are retweeted and, most importantly, the number of followers you have.
Date: 2018-01-31

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Today’s communications professionals are embracing emerging technologies to create news experiences, telling stories that engage and entertain. More and more adults are joining online communities and reading their news on the Internet, and, across the communications industry, social media is changing the way the press interacts with its audience.
Date: 2018-01-30

Rupert Murdoch’s Solution to Facebook’s Fake News Problem: Pay the Publishers
Days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a new strategy to determine which news outlets can be trusted, Rupert Murdoch proposed another way to solve the fake new problem that has been bugging the social media platform. Murdoch, executive chairman of publishing empire News Corporation, proposed that social media platforms pay publishers for “trusted” content.
Date: 2018-01-24

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Date: 2018-01-22

Cluttered Facebook Messenger Could See Big Changes in 2018
If you are starting to feel that the Facebook Messenger app seems to be too overloaded with features, then you are not the only one. Apparently, even Facebook’s vice president of messaging products David Marcus had to admit that, indeed, the app became too cluttered.
Date: 2018-01-17