Instapaper is independent again 2 years after Pinterest acquisition
Apple promises 70 new emoji in 2018, such as superheroes, hair, and food
Opinion
ProBeat: I hope Twitter has many more purges planned
Apple launches $300 million green energy fund in China
Opinion
Facebook should be forced to shut down WhatsApp and fix it
Marketers could harvest member data from closed Facebook groups as recently as June, report says
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Alma Campus raises $1 million for a college social network with an academic bent
Twitter’s own account loses 7 million followers as part of locked profile crackdown
Uber and Uber Eats now let you split the bill using Venmo
GitHub Enterprise now lets Business Cloud subscribers connect to public repositories
Warner Bros. picks up Plexchat for social gaming
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HackNotice is a free service that alerts you when your accounts have been hacked
Twitter starts removing locked accounts from your follower count
U.K. data watchdog’s report on Facebook shenanigans is far more shocking than $664,000 fine
Magic Leap signs AT&T as sole U.S. wireless vendor and gets investment
Monday.com raises $50 million to build the “next generation” team collaboration tools
WhatsApp now flags ‘forwarded’ messages to combat fake news
Instagram adds Q&A feature to Stories
Facebook is testing augmented reality News Feed ads
Congressional committee quizzes Apple and Alphabet on data privacy practices
Twitter has locked out users suspected of signing up as preteens for over a month
Is building a Facebook alternative worth the effort? MeWe thinks so
Tinder’s looping profile videos launch globally
European Parliament votes 318-278 against controversial copyright reforms, but the saga isn’t over
EU Parliament set to vote on copyright bill that’s causing a massive freak-out across the web
WhatsApp says collective action required to combat the spread of misinformation in India
Earlybird closes $204 million fund for ‘deep tech’ startups in Europe
U.S. agencies widen investigation into what Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica
Analysis
How Facebook and Twitter’s new ad transparency tools fall short
Opinion
Small tech companies will be the next victims of brick-and-mortar’s collapse
WhatsApp groups can now be restricted so only admins can send messages
AI Weekly: Hearings on AI show Congress has no answers, either
Bethereum is using blockchain technology to bring fairness to social betting
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