Topic > Social
Facebook is killing Oculus accounts, starting in October
Oculus Quest interview — Standalone VR built for value-conscious gamers
Facebook wants to restrict certain users from broadcasting live
Pew: Smartphone penetration ranges from 24% in India to 95% in South Korea
Facebook to pull controversial data-collection app for iOS
Sprout Social raises $40.5 million to supercharge social media campaigns
Facebook will bring political ad transparency tools to India ahead of 2019 elections
EU warns Facebook must comply with consumer rules or face crackdown
Mozilla’s VR Hubs can now share web, clipboard, and uploaded content
Instagram adds option to mute posts in your feed
Hollywood producer brings blockchain to the movies with TaTaTu
Apple paid to show BuzzFeed News videos before Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
Facebook launches snooze button so you can hide annoying friends for 30 days
Gary Nix, social video, and the state of machine learning — VB Engage
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Brandwatch is the first to add Reddit data to its social listening suite
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Emaze website builder launches to give influencers a new home on the internet
Itai Lahan, Snapchat for brands, and artificially intelligent design – VB Engage
Marshall Kirkpatrick, faulty Facebook, and what AdWeek taught us about content – VB Engage
Adam Goldstein, avoiding Chinese airlines, and Snapchat’s biggest problem – VB Engage
Snaplytics launches its Snapchat analytics platform for brands and influencers
Mark Organ, bad Kardashians, and the benevolence of Facebook – VB Engage
Relationship Science takes a shot at LinkedIn, opens its database to everyone
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PlaceSpeak aims to democratize your neighborhood and bring us all together
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Synthesio now analyzes emojis and emoticons in 17 languages
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Hypr launches App Blaster to put you in front of 1 billion social users
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Mobile now captures 2 out of every 3 digital media minutes in U.S.
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Bubbl launches Air, the ‘world’s first’ social media keyboard
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In the battle for your bulge, these social media tactics help fitness brands punch above their weight
Lithium adds new analytics features to measure the ‘why,’ not just the ‘how many’
Affinio raises $4M to help understand social tribes around the globe
Twitter now lets anyone tweet a poll
Google just dropped a meet-up app called Who’s Down
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Mobile video ad spending triples in 2015, and that’s just the beginning
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More than 50% of Instagram’s biggest fans hate ad increase
Facebook v. Google in digital video battle: YouTube is 11X bigger
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Mobile user acquisition methods: Email is for enterprise, social is for startups
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Synthesio partners with Hootsuite to help social listening go mainstream
For back-to-school retailers, Instagram delivers 7X the engagement of Twitter, Facebook
