Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

Бывший главный редактор Wonderzine Ольга Страховская, покинувшая проект в декабре 2016 года, присоединилась к редакции «Медузы». Об этом на своей странице в Facebook сообщил главный редактор «Медузы» Иван Колпаков.... →

Happy Black History Month! Tech companies aren’t the best with diversity and inclusion, with many of the big players employing very few black people. Facebook, for example, is just 2% black, according to its most recent diversity report. And it’s the same story at Google, at least when it comes to black people. But despite the lack of diversity in the industry, many tech companies… Read More... →

“Category kings,” defined as market-share leaders in particular business sectors, often wind up creating the majority of the market value relative to their competition. This advantage is particularly pronounced in tech: According to some research, over 70 percent of the value created in tech markets is generated by the category’s king (think Amazon in retail, Facebook in… Read More... →

Travis Kalanick quits the Trump advisory board, Domino’s updates its Facebook Messenger bot in time for the Super Bowl, GoPro and Amazon have a rough day on Wall Street and Medium plans to monetize. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Connections between the Obaman administration and Silicon Valley abound, but particularly for Josh Kushner. The latest? Kushner’s venture firm Thrive Capital just hired Josh Miller, a member of the White House Office of Digital Strategy under President Barack Obama. Miller, just 24 when he left Facebook to serve as the White House director of product, starts Monday at Thrive and,… Read More... →

Facebook may be distancing itself from location-sharing between friends in its own app, but Facebook-owned WhatsApp appears to moving in this direction. A new feature spotted in the beta version of the popular mobile messaging software shows that WhatsApp has developed a real-time location-tracking option that could be used among the app’s friends. The addition was spotted this week… Read More... →

Domino’s is about to put its ordering bot, Dom, to a big test. Just ahead of Super Bowl weekend, the pizza chain is rolling out the ability to order off its full menu via Facebook Messenger – even if you haven’t already set up a pre-configured “pizza profile.” The update means it will be easier for more casual Domino’s customers to give the bot a try, as… Read More... →

Facebook обновил поиск фотографий в соцсети, добавив в него поиск изображений по ключевым словам и описанию происходящего на картинке. Этот сервис создавался для помощи слабовидящим людям, однако компания решила открыть его для всех пользователей, пишет The Next Web.... →

В ближайшее время он станет доступен пользователям по всему миру... →

Facebook добавил в мобильное приложение опцию Discover People, которая позволяет искать незнакомых людей по географии, месту работы, интересам и другим параметрам.... →

Социальная сеть Facebook приступила к запуску нового раздела «Discover People», с помощью которого пользователи смогут знакомиться с новыми людьми. Этот раздел расположен в нижней части панели навигации: При входе в него пользователю будет предложено представить себя и обновить информацию в профиле, если есть такая необходимость. Ниже расположен перечень предстоящих мероприятий. При выборе одного из них пользователь […]... →

Университет ИТМО создаст Единый центр геоинформационной урбанистики в городе-спутнике «Южный» Пушкинского района Петербурге. Об этом Firrma сообщили в университете. В центре будет открыта школа по подготовке специалистов по производству и управлению беспилотных летательных аппаратов (БПЛА). Также там расположится Высшая школа геоинформатики Университета ИТМО и многоотраслевой испытательно-сертификационный полигон геоинформационных комплексов. В центре будут выпускать геоинформационные комплексы для различны... →

Основатель стрим-сервиса LiveReacting Александр Шпилька поделился историей о том, как он работал над созданием своего SaaS-проекта на основе трансляций Facebook, который принёс прибыль уже в первый месяц после запуска.... →

Snap files publicly for its massive IPO, Uber will pause its service in Taiwan starting February 12th, Pokémon GO crosses $1 billion in revenue, Facebook lets you search images by content and Licking County government gets its offices shut down by ransomware. All this on Crunch Report! Read More... →

WhatsApp proved itself to be the most YOLO-crypto company of 2016 when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default last April for its more than 1 billion users. (Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent company, took a more cautious approach when it added opt-in encryption to Messenger.) But WhatsApp’s all-in approach has come at a cost — the company’s executives were arrested… Read More... →

Искусственный интеллект считывает изображение и подсказывает изображенные на ней предметы и действия.... →

Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat and Spectacles, included in its filing to go public a brief tidbit on diversity. Unlike tech companies like Apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook and several others, Snap has not released a diversity report. At the end of 2016, Snap employed 1,859 employees, but Snap won’t say how diverse it is. “That’s because we believe diversity is… Read More... →

Evan Spiegel’s letter to investors would fit in a 10 second snap. The CEO’s penchant for minimalist design seems to have influenced the opening statement in today’s Snap Inc S-1 filing to go public. It’s just a 1/16th the length of Mark Zuckerberg’s letter when Facebook went public. But it was enough for him to declare the camera as the “starting… Read More... →

As the dust settles from yesterday’s $500 million verdict against Oculus VR and Facebook, Oculus CTO John Carmack still has some things he wants to get off his chest. “Being sued sucks,” he said early on in a Facebook post he published this morning. Though Carmack avoided paying any damages in the final verdict, unlike Oculus founder Palmer Luckey and former CEO Brendan Iribe,… Read More... →

Social media plays a large role in politics today, from the election of Donald Trump to those now resisting his policies, such as through the grassroots-born movement that was the Women’s March on Washington. The movement began as Facebook page for frustrated voters, then morphed into an event that drew in an estimated 5 million participants, thanks to its sister marches beyond D.C.… Read More... →