Tag: apps
Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen
Facebook may make it easier to escape its ranking algorithm and explore the News Feed in different formats. Facebook has internally prototyped a tabbed version of the News Feed for mobile that includes that the standard Most Relevant feed, the existing Most Recent feed of reverse chronological posts that was…
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Voodoo Games thrives by upending conventional product design
Will Robbins Contributor Voodoo Games is one of the most interesting startups alive today. In mid-2018, it had 150 million MAUs and raised $200 million from Goldman Sachs, yet I’ve never heard anyone mention the company. That might be normal for an obscure enterprise SaaS play, but Voodoo is consumer-facing…
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Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the European Union’s regulators as they form new laws to govern artificial intelligence, content moderation, and more. But…
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How TikTok decides who to make famous
Hannah Donovan Contributor Hannah Donovan is the founder and CEO of TRASH. Geneviève Patterson Contributor Dr. Geneviève Patterson is co-founder and CSTO of TRASH. Part 2: The TikTok System Read part one of this post, “Leveraging TikTok for growth,” on TechCrunch. So what do we mean when we say “then,…
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Leveraging TikTok for growth
Geneviève Patterson Contributor Dr. Geneviève Patterson is co-founder and CSTO of TRASH. Hannah Donovan Contributor Hannah Donovan is the founder and CEO of TRASH. Once you have a product, distributing it becomes the next challenge for any entrepreneur. At TRASH (one-tap video editing), we looked to TikTok as a potential…
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Google confirms it again removed alleged spying tool ToTok from Google Play
In December, The New York Times reported a popular messaging app called ToTok was actually a spying tool used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to track users’ conversations, location, and social connections. The app was removed from the Google Play store in December, while Google investigated, then…
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