BlackBerry Ltd. filed a lawsuit against Facebook on Tuesday, claiming that the social media giant and its wholly owned apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, infringed on the former smartphone maker’s messaging patents. “Defendants created mobile messaging applications that co-opt BlackBerry’s innovations, using a number of the innovative security, user interface, and functionality enhancing features that made […]
Category: Social
If you’re managing a small business or start-up brand on social media, getting people to interact with you can be challenging. This is where polling comes in handy since it encourages engagement and improves the visibility of your brand. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, have polling features that you can tweak […]
The site announced a number of changes to its app APIs and introduced a new ad-targeting prompt that reminds advertisers about anti-discrimination policies. Facebook continues to shore up its user safety measures on a number of fronts. Yesterday, the site announced several changes to its API platform and released a new statement on all the ways it […]
‘This is the kind of control that we think people should have,’ said Zuckerberg, after announcing users will be able to clear their browsing history on the site. Facebook kicked off its F8 Developers Conference Tuesday with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “This has been an intense year. I can’t believe we’re only four […]
Group administrators now have a process to let members know why their content was removed, and can collaborate with moderators via the admin activity log. Facebook has rolled out a number of new features for Group admins designed to help keep groups safe and make it easier for admins to manage their online communities. It also […]
Twitter has started recruiting publishers to take part in a pilot programmatic ad network that will place ads in Twitter Timelines embedded in publishers’ sites. According to the “Introducing the Twitter Timeline Ads Pilot” page on Twitter’s business site, the Timeline ad network will be available to a select group of publishers in the US […]
iOS users’ Snaps and Chats will be in chronological order again, and Stories from friends are going back to the right side of the app. Snapchat has started rolling out design changes for iOS devices that it announced during its first quarter earnings report. Snapchat says a majority of iOS users will now have […]
What Is Social Media Marketing? Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining traffic or attention through social media sites. Social media itself is a catch-all term for sites that may provide radically different social actions. For instance, Twitter is a social site designed to let people share short messages or “updates” with others. […]
Google had a bug with their Search Console platform this morning, where it sent out reverification email notifications to many users. The issue was that the verification method became invalid for a large number of sites in Google Search Console, and then Google had to reverify those sites. So during that process, it resent verification […]
Google is honoring Nettie Stevens, the American female geneticist who was one of the first to describe the chromosomal basis of sex. She came up with the XY sex-determination system, mostly found in humans to classify gender. Females have two of the same kind of sex chromosome (XX) and are called the homogametic sex. Males […]