Next month, Meta will be opening its very first physical retail store in Burlingame, California. The store will focus on the hardware the company makes and also provide a nice hands on experience for customers. The store is due to open on 9th May and is pretty close to the Reality Labs division HQ. The ‘Meta Store’ will allow customers to purchase and try out its line of devices, such as […]
Yesterday, Twitter accounted that Tesla CEO Elon Musk will be purchasing Twitter for $44 billion with Bloomberg one of the first publications to report the news early on Monday morning this week. This follows on from weeks of drama and rumours, as well as people wondering if Elon would buy Twitter and if so, what would happen to the social media company. Some early reports suggest that the Twitter board have […]
TikTok is currently testing out a new feature for comments, where other users can dislike each others comments. The company announced the news last week and those comments can also be voted as either irrelevant or inappropriate too. “This community feedback will add to the range of factors we already use to help keep the comment section consistently relevant and a place for genuine engagement.” TikTok When a comment is […]
After all the drama, Elon Musk now won’t be joining the board of directors at Twitter. This comes a week after Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced on the platform that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would be joining the board after he purchased 9.2% of Twitter. Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. pic.twitter.com/lfrXACavvk — Parag Agrawal […]
Twitter has finally revealed that it is working on an edit button, well it has actually been working on the feature since last year. The company revealed that the feature will come to Twitter Blue subscribers first and eventually roll out to the public. So far, thee is very little information on how the feature works, whether edit revisions and history will be easily visible etc, but more details should […]
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has acquired a 9.2% in Twitter this week instantly making him the largest shareholder the company has. As a result, the shares of Twitter have increased by 27% since and his stake in the company is worth around $2.89 billion. As a result of acquiring a stake in Twitter, Elon Musk has also joined the board of Twitter giving him the ability to influence some of […]
Instagram has pulled the official Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from the iOS and Google app stores this week, following a comment from Meta. Speaking to Engadget, Meta said that Instagram is focusing instead on the main instagram app instead. It has been suggested that Instagram pulled both apps earlier this month on 1st March, but Layout is still available for making collages. Instagram has also pulled its official IGTV app this month, […]
Twitter looks to have been blocked in Russia, following on from a country wide ban by the government on Facebook. Interfax has reported the news this week. Various news sites have reached out to Twitter who said they are currently not seeing anything different to what was reported earlier this week. Earlier this week, Twitter confirmed that its service might be unavailable for some people in Russia but there have been multiple […]
TikTok has confirmed that it is rolling out support for longer videos on its platform, with a new maximum of ten minute long videos. TikTok has long had a fairly generous limit of three minutes for a long time now and the company confirmed the news today to TechCrunch. The company says it has been testing support for longer videos on TikTok for a number of months now and it is […]
WhatsApp has long been a single device application, with the phone being the integral part of that experience as every message was routed through it. However, the company has been working on improving the way it handles multiple devices, as competitors such as iMessage and Telegram have long offered this feature. Last week, Will Cathcart the chief of WhatsApp spoke to The Verge and said that users have been asking for […]
