Istanbul has become a city to watch when it comes to casual gaming startups, boosted by the likes of Peak (acquired by Zynga for $1.8 billion) and Dream (valued at $1 billion in a funding round last year). Now, a new startup is announcing a major round of funding to make its own mark on […]
WhatsApp inches forward on bringing Reactions to its app
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, is actively developing its app and working on new features. The app’s latest beta on iOS reveals that a new feature may be coming soon worked on reactions to iMessage-like messages. In their latest findings, they dis…
A hospitable metaverse requires the basic building blocks of virtual life
It’s not easy to build a virtual universe, but it’s certainly something that we can bring closer to reality through proper network infrastructure investments and innovation.
House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenas Meta, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit
The House committee leading the investigation into the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to four major tech companies Thursday. January 6 select committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) sent letters to YouTube parent company Alphabet, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, Reddit and Twitter demanding for those companies to provide […]
UK class action lodged against Meta seeks $3.1B for breach of competition law
A competition legal expert, backed by a powerful litigation fund, is set to mount a multibillion-dollar class action suit against Facebook/Meta for breach of competition law on the basis that it abused its dominance of social networking in the U.K. for several years. If successful, the action would see Facebook having to pay $3.1 billion […]
Second Life’s creator is returning to advise the original metaverse company
The creator of one of the earliest and most enduringly iconic virtual worlds is returning to his roots. Second Life’s founder Philip Rosedale will rejoin the company he founded in 1999 as a strategic advisor after High Fidelity, the spatial audio company Rosedale co-founded in 2013, invested in Second Life’s developer Linden Lab. The deal […]
Meta shuts down its experimental video speed-dating service, Sparked
Meta is shutting down a video speed-dating service it had tested over a good part of last year, the company informed the service’s users via a recent email. Last April, the company formerly known as Facebook confirmed it was testing a new dating service called Sparked, which was developed by its in-house incubator, the NPE […]
スーパーモデル のカイア・ガーバー氏が自身を語る：母シンディ・クロフォードからのアドバイス、注目するSNS
シンディ・クロフォード氏を母に持つスーパーモデル、カイア・ガーバー氏。20歳になる彼女はYSLビューティの顔であり、1月に発表される予定の同ブランドの新製品の顔でもある。そんなガーバー氏にインスタグラム上で印象に残ったポストや好きな映画、母親のクローゼットから盗んだという最高のものについて話を聞いた。
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Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter, says the social media giant has met conditions
The Nigerian government has lifted the suspension of Twitter operations more than six months after it first declared a crackdown on the social media giant in the country. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, the director-general of Nigeria’s tech agency, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), made this announcement via a statement today. He was put in charge, […]
Fact-checkers write open letter urging YouTube to get serious about COVID misinformation
A group of more than 80 prominent fact-checking organizations around the world is pressing YouTube to take action against COVID misinformation, which still prevails on the platform now two years into the pandemic. “As an international network of fact-checking organizations, we monitor how lies spread online — and every day, we see that YouTube is […]