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Facebook’s plan to build community with hiring and $10M in grants
Facebook will award up to $1 million to five community leaders and $50,000 to 100 more to fund their ideas for how to strengthen people’s online and offline connections. Facebook will also hire double the number of engineers currently working on safety-related causes in its London office. These were a few of the big announcements…
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Toyota invests $69M in Japanese Uber rival backed by the taxi industry
This week isn’t turning out to be great one for Uber in Japan. Two of its investors — Didi and SoftBank — are teaming up to launch a rival service, while one of its existing competitors has just landed a big cash infusion and highly influential backer after Toyota backed JapanTaxi. The auto giant said it…
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Facebook confirms test of a downvote button for flagging comments
How can Facebook promote meaningful interaction between users? By letting them downvote inappropriate comments to hide them. Facebook is now testing a downvote button on a limited set of public Page post comment reels, the company confirms to TechCrunch. But what Facebook does with signals about problematic comments could raise new questions about censorship, and…
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WhatsApp has launched person-to-person payments into beta in India
WhatsApp has begun testing a new payments feature in India that will allow people to send money to other WhatsApp users, excluding merchant accounts. The feature is currently in beta, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans, but hasn’t been publicly announced because it’s not widely available at this time. The company has been working…
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Snapchat starts selling $10+ captionable AR masks for events
By combining augmented reality with your customizable captions, Snapchat hopes you’ll share more from birthdays and weddings while earning it a little money. Today Snapchat launches Custom Lenses, expanding its 2016–launched on-demand geofilter program so you can make temporary, geofenced AR effects that people can add to their Snaps at a special event. The Create-Your-Own-Lens…
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Facebook Messenger’s ‘Your Emoji’ status tells friends what’s up
Want to let friends know you’re trying to party, hit the gym, focus on work or grab a drink? That’s the idea behind a powerful new feature Facebook Messenger is testing called Your Emoji. Akin to offline meetup app Down to Lunch, it lets you overlay a chosen emoji on your Messenger profile pic for…
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Estas son las palabras que nunca debes usar cuando hagas un Bizum: podrías tener problemas
Bizum es, sin duda, una de las aplicaciones favoritas entre los grupos de amigos. La sencillez con la que permite enviar y pedir dinero a tus contactos hace que sea mucho más fácil dividir cuentas en restaurantes, pagar entradas de cine o devolver un dinerito a tu amigo del alma. Sin embargo, muchas son las…
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La fianza del ex director ejecutivo de FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, revocada antes del juicio de octubre
A Sam Bankman-Fried, ex director ejecutivo del ahora en quiebra criptoexchange FTX, se le revocó la libertad bajo fianza antes de su juicio en octubre, dijo el viernes el juez del Tribunal de Distrito de EE. UU. Lewis Kaplan. La decisión se produjo después de acusaciones de que Bankman-Fried filtró el diario de Caroline Ellison,…
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ByteDance vuelve a mirar a TikTok para promocionar su otra aplicación social, Lemon8
TikTok parece estar trabajando en una integración con limon8otra aplicación social propiedad de la empresa matriz de TikTok con sede en Beijing, ByteDance, según nuevos hallazgos de la firma de inteligencia de productos Vigilante.ai. La aparente nueva asociación ve a TikTok desarrollando una función que permitiría a los usuarios sincronizar sus publicaciones de Lemon8 con…
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Cómo escalamos el rendimiento de nuestra App Store en aproximadamente un 200 % en 1 año
Olga Bakirova Colaboradora Olga Bakirova es especialista de ASO/ASA en Keikiuna startup de edtech que crea aplicaciones de desarrollo agradables para que los niños mantengan su interés por aprender. La optimización de la tienda de aplicaciones (ASO) y los anuncios de búsqueda de Apple (ASA) son herramientas potentes para promocionar aplicaciones que pueden aumentar significativamente…
