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Updated May 16, 2016 1:50 p.m. ET Facebook Inc. FB -1.11 % is now selling video ads on behalf of other companies, a move that could prove lucrative for the technology giant and intensify its competition with Alphabet Inc. GOOGL -1.38 % subsidiary Google and other online ad specialists. The company said on Monday it…
Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has been in damage control mode all week. A Gizmodo exposé revealed on May 9 that the social media company may have been suppressing conservative news from its Trending Topics section. Zuck offered to meet with conservative leaders on Friday in an attempt to smooth things over. Facebook has also attempted…
Face of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has been in damage control mode all week. A Gizmodo exposé revealed on May 9 that the social media company may have been suppressing conservative news from its Trending Topics section. Zuck offered to meet with conservative leaders on Friday in an attempt to smooth things over. Facebook has also attempted…
Working at Facebook, even as a contractor, was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime. It was, instead, the most toxic work experience of my life. As a curator, my job was to choose what links would appear on the Facebook “trending” box on the right side of a user’s newsfeed. Every day, I…
Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is averaging 150 million monthly views on…
Untold-stories.net (Courtesy of Ruben Pater) There’s an interesting trend in Web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad. Look at Hacker News. Pinboard. The Drudge Report. Adult Swim. Bloomberg Businessweek features. All of these sites — some years old, some built recently — and hundreds more like them, eschew the templated, user-friendly…
Twitter: latest update shows the service is more than just words Posting a photo or URL, even when Twitter shortens the link, currently takes up 23 characters, meaning users only have 117 characters to play with. Combined with emoji or hashtags, this doesn’t leave much room for words. Observers say the tweak is a minor…
Uber faces other labor-related hurdles. Along with Lyft, a competing ride-hailing service, the company this week withdrew operations from Austin, Tex., after losing a battle with the City Council over the nature of its background checks for drivers. Under the terms of the deal in New York, which will be in effect for five years,…
In the fall of 2007, a new social network named Friendfeed launched in semi-private beta. Founded by four ex-Google employees—Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh—it had a simple mission: “to glue together the web,” as Buchheit put it. Using site-specific RSS feed scrapers, FriendFeed would pull data from other networks—there were 23…
Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player. Under the plan revealed by Google, called “HTML5 by Default,” the Chrome browser will continue to ship with Adobe’s Flash Player, but its presence will…