Medium raises $50 million while it can, adds Ben Horowitz and Judy Estrin to board
Facebook tweaks its News Feed to factor in time spent on articles
Product Hunt’s new app shows you what’s trending right on the desktop
HotelTonight launches Aces in-app human concierge service
Facebook Messenger now lets anyone make group calls
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Nintendo’s Miitomo is beating Facebook at gathering personal data
Quora begins testing ads on ‘small number’ of question pages
Airbnb revamps its mobile app with neighborhood travel guides and a matching algorithm
‘We’ll probably get Obama.’ VentureBeat’s new VB Engage podcast sets its sights high
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Why Nintendo’s Miitomo should frighten every other mobile game publisher
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Facebook Messenger’s ‘rich bubbles’ make dumb bots usable
YouTube inches toward VR with 360-degree livestreaming and spatial audio
LinkedIn’s newest app helps college grads find jobs
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Facebook’s ‘event near you’ feature is fantastic
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What the latest Facebook Reactions data means for social marketers
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Your bot is now your brand
Twitter gears up for new push into China with hiring of regional director
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Facebook just validated the bot movement for businesses
Instagram rolling out new channels to show you videos you might like
Vine now lets you automatically play all videos in a channel
Snapchat now lets you animate emojis within videos
WordPress.com bloggers can now include share buttons for WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype
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2 reasons I’m optimistic about Instagram’s algorithm change
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016
Facebook opens its Messenger platform to chatbots
How to livestream Facebook’s 2016 F8 developer conference
What to expect from Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week
Twitter acquires employee feedback tool Peer
Facebook now lets verified Pages share branded content from marketers
Facebook showing live videos in trending topics with new video search coming to mobile
900M monthly users strong, Facebook Messenger gets codes, usernames, and links to help you connect with anyone
Reddit scraps Alien Blue in favor of in-house built iOS and Android apps
Pinterest launches Promoted Pins internationally, starting with the U.K.
Facebook Live now streams to Groups and Events, gets Reactions, filters, and more
WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption by default
Twitter now makes it easier to share tweets privately through Direct Messages
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