
Inside LinkedIn’s desktop redesign rolling out now

Tapjoy: Mobile games are more engaging and fun than social networks

Facebook to build third international data center in Denmark

Twitter sells Fabric mobile developer platform to Google

Slack introduces threaded replies

Microsoft’s LinkedIn open-sources Bluepill for testing iOS apps

Social Native gets authentic fans to create social media content for brands

Google is killing the classic Google+ on January 24

19-year-old raises $1 million for TeamDom to monetize influencers

Syrian refugee sues Facebook for ‘defamatory’ posts after selfie with Angela Merkel

These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week

App.net shutting down Twitter-like social platform on March 14, open-sources code

Snapchat’s latest refresh aims to make it easier to find friends, groups, and stories

EU rejects U.S. explanation of scanning Yahoo email for intelligence gathering

TechDirt faces fight for its life in ‘inventor of email’ lawsuit

Google+ starts showing high-resolution images that take up less bandwidth

Facebook makes it harder to notice when posts are edited

Twitter shutting down app used to manage business accounts on February 3

Feature
The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world’s most revolutionary phone

GoFundMe acquires CrowdRise to go deeper into the charitable giving space

Snapchat chooses London for its international HQ

Tailwind launches toolkit to help brands with Instagram marketing

Facebook says people sent 63 billion WhatsApp messages on New Year’s Eve

No one knows what Trump will tweet next, spokesperson says

Snap sued by ex-employee who alleges company misled investors

Coffee Meets Bagel taps Spotify and Yelp to make your first date a success

Opinion
My New Year’s resolution is to delete Twitter from my phone

Twitter’s China director Kathy Chen departs after 8 months

4 Twitter fixes Jack Dorsey says he’ll consider in 2017

Opinion
Facebook in 2016: Live, fake, and half-baked

Rejoice! Twitter CEO is ‘thinking a lot’ about letting users edit tweets

Netflix vs. Amazon in 2016: A big year for 2 video streaming giants

Review
15 interesting startups to watch in 2017

Twitter now lets you watch 360-degree Periscope streams

Facebook Messenger for web now lets you search in conversations

Facebook acquires eye tracking company The Eye Tribe

Analysis
For publishers, Facebook is the devil

Stanford students are using lean startup principles to help fight ISIS

Snap reportedly acquired augmented reality startup Cimagine Media for up to $40 million
