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An Indian Uber Driver, who was convicted of rape while endangering the life of a woman, kidnapping, and criminal intimidation last month, has been given a sentence of life in priso...

Facebook’s ‘Maybe’ Button, the Worst Thing About Events, Is Finally Dead

RIP "Maybe" button. We all really hated you and aren't remotely sad to see you go. Starting today, everyone should see "Interested" instead of "Maybe" as the third option for RS...

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Adds Pinterest Features

Salesforce just announced that Salesforce Marketing Cloud is now a Pinterest Marketing Developer Partner for Content Publishing with the addition of new tools for Social Studio....

Snapchat: We Aren’t Stockpiling Your Private Snaps

Snapchat users had a little bit of a freakout last week when the company...

Facebook Is Sort of Tweaking Its Real Name Policy, Admits It “Does Not Work for Everyone”

Facebook's "real name policy" has come under a lot of scrutiny as of late. The criticism comes from all sorts of interests, but some of the main opposition has been from the...

Facebook’s ‘Add the Last Link’ Test Is The Most Annoying Thing Ever

Facebook tests new features all the time. Many of them die off, some of them succeed. This one needs to die. Quickly. Some people (a small set of iOS users) are seeing Facebook...

New Snapchat Terms Should Scare You … If You’re Unfamiliar with Social Media Terms

Snapchat just unveiled a new privacy policy and Terms of Service, and since about 10% of your snaps are dick pics, you're likely concerned. A lot of people are. Here,...

Are You Helping Criminals Take Your Data?

From posting baby photos to reactions about tv shows, social media is the best way to communicate to our friends. But what you post online may be aiding scammers steal your informa...

Do Short and Sweet Facebook Posts Drive More Traffic?

Like you, NPR sure would like more of its Facebook followers to click through to its site. And like you, NPR is looking for a way to optimize its Facebook traffic. Let's face it...

Facebook Messenger Gets Message Requests

Facebook announced that it's rolling out Message Requests for Messenger. It calls this a "foundational development" in the sense that the company will continue to build on the func...

Facebook Moments App Gets An Update

Facebook launched Moments in June. This is a mobile app that lets users share and sync photos with friends. The syncing feature lets friends easily gain access to photos from "mome...

Facebook Slows Staff’s Internet So They Know What 2G Browsing Feels Like

Many of Facebook's more than 1.5 billion users aren't browsing Facebook with the same lightning fast (heh) speed as you are. In many countries, like India for example, Facebook use...

Facebook Instant Articles Get More Shares, Company Says

Facebook has been expanding the availability of Instant Articles to both users and publishers. When the feature, which allows mobile Facebook users to load articles from the news f...

Wikipedia Is Bitching About Media Coverage

English Wikipedia administrator Robert Fernandez just published a blog post on the official Wikimed...

Hootsuite Campaigns Goes Free For All Users

Hootsuite just announced the launch of a free version of its Hootsuite Campaigns feature aimed at helping businesses build and manage social campaigns to engage customers and gener...

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