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CES 2017 day two, Campbell Brown to help Facebook News Publishers, DJI opens its wallet for Hasselblad, and Indiegogo goes equity and goods. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Facebook has tapped Campbell Brown, a former television news anchor and a charter school advocate, to lead its news partnerships team. Brown will be charged with easing tension between the media and Facebook, which have clashed over the social media giant’s role in disseminating the news, its censorship of news photos, and its proliferation of false and misleading stories. Brown… Read More... →

Was that space walk or climb of a massive antenna tower really shot on Facebook Live? No. Is the point of Facebook Live to show a virtual clock counting down to the New Year? No. Yet these are some of the videos that have crookedly taken advantage of the notifications and extra News Feed visibility of Facebook Live posts. Facebook’s fake news problem isn’t isolated to text articles. Read More... →

Posted by randfishLaunching a startup is a huge task all on its own. While it can be a challenge to factor SEO into the mix, it's an incredibly important consideration. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares a comprehensive plan to kick off your new SEO audit and grab a piece of that organic search pie from the get-go. Pro tip: For easy listening, this video is broken up into 9 chapters that correspond with the transcript below. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version in a n... →

Бывший руководитель отдела роста компании Snapchat Энтони Помплиано был уволен всего через три недели после трудоустройства из-за отказа раскрывать секретные сведения своего прежнего работодателя и главного конкурента сервиса — компании Facebook, пишет издание Variety со ссылкой на материалы судебного разбирательства.... →

Facebook запустил функцию автоматического создания субтитров для видео на страницах, сообщает TechCrunch. Пока она работает только на английском языке...... →

Nvidia is giving gamers using the GeForce Experience will now be able to broadcast directly to Facebook Live, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced at CES today. Huang basically breezed past the announcement heading into a trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda streamed live, but it does represent a rather huge development in live streaming. While Twitch has largely become the go-to place to watch… Read More... →

Mark Zuckerberg is not limited to just two years working in the government while still controlling Facebook, as has been widely misreported. A closer examination of SEC documents reveals Zuck only needs to still own enough Facebook stock or have the board’s approval to be allowed to serve in government indefinitely. Combined with Zuckerberg announcement yesterday that his 2017… Read More... →

Facebook pulled the world back into the silent film era with its muted, auto-play videos, but its latest tool could make it easier to repurpose traditional clips. Facebook has launched a free, automatic video captioning tool to all US English Facebook Pages. TechCrunch and some other Pages only recently began seeing the quietly launched option, though Facebook responded to our inquiry saying… Read More... →

Asian Facebook clone Snow caught the attention of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who tried unsuccessfully to buy it last year, and it is continuing to grow steadily. The app’s Korean parent Naver today confirmed it crossed 100 million downloads in December, with 40-50 percent of its userbase active on the app each month. Read More... →

After a year of criticism and allegations around fake news, censorship, and bias, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg is using his yearly challenge to educate himself on the needs and problems of his users around the United States. That could help Facebook become a better platform for the voices and ideas of everyone, not just those on the coasts or who work in technology, especially as… Read More... →

Основатель Prisma Алексей Моисеенков и сооснователи MSQRD Сергей Гончар и Евгений Невгень вошли в список Forbes 30 до 30 в 2017 году в категории «технологические компании».  Алексей Моисеенков (26 лет)  – сооснователь приложения Prisma, которое позволяет обрабатывать изображения и видео на основе алгоритмов нейронных сетей. Prisma стала одним из самых популярных приложений в App Store десяти стран, включая Россию, где, по внутренним данным команды проекта, приложение скачали 650 тысяч раз. В мире приложение... →

Аналитическая компания Nielsen опубликовала топ-10 самых популярных приложений 2016 года в США...... →

PixTeller is a unique little service. Created by a Romanian web designer, Alexandru Roznovat, it is a sort of instant design studio with plenty of ready-made templates so you can create clever Instagram memes or fun book cover designs in a few seconds. After creating an account you’re presented with dozens of pre-made designs that are fairly innocuous. You can select a Facebook header,… Read More... →

In the weeks since the U.S. presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been firefighting. Not literally, but figuratively. Widespread accusations assert that his social media company contributed to the election’s unexpected outcome by propagating fake news and “filter bubbles.” The case poses a thorny question: How do we ensure that technology works for society? Read More... →

Основатель метапоиска авиабилетов Aviasales Константин Калинов назвал причины своего ухода от руля компании:  «Для тех, кто не понял: мне стыдно за качество выпускаемых компанией продуктов, раз. Я категорически против выбранного вектора развития, два. Мне лично отвратительны персонажи в совете директоров и в руководстве фонда, три. Я не считаю профессионалами некоторых топменеджеров, четыре. Все имена были перечислены в тексте». Несколькими часами ранее он написал в Facebook о том, что уходит с поста руково... →

This year, Donald Trump’s U.S. election triumph sent Silicon Valley into a spiral of uncertainty, Facebook addressed its fake news problem, the IPO landscape saw little action and the UK separated form the EU. Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. and launched its Spectacles hardware product. Twitter is still fighting its abuse problem, Yahoo suffered two massive breaches and Samsung phones… Read More... →

Value creation in enterprise tech is often driven by a cohort of exits, while value creation in consumer tech is generally driven by large, individual exits — a phenomenon I recently dug into. What the data revealed is that there is of late a trend of larger consumer exits, such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. If this trend continues, that’s very good news for… Read More... →

22 декабря 2016 года основатель агентства Digital Socium Олег Казачков на своей странице в Facebook обратил внимание на аккаунт пользователя «ВКонтакте», который набирает аномальное число отметок «Мне нравится» к своим репостам записей из официальных сообществ Hyundai и Škoda. Редакция vc.ru обратилась за комментариями в агентство «Нектарин», работающее с указанными брендами, но вместо ответов о причастности к ситуации получила поток юридических писем и устные предложения замолчать историю.... →

Основатель «Тинькофф банка» Олег Тиньков на своей странице в Facebook заявил, что ему не удалось найти победителя в конкурсе на лучшую идею для рекламы кредитной организации. Автору лучшего варианта он обещал подарить $150 тысяч.... →