| 8 hours ago Trust on the non-professional side of the social network spectrum has been a hot topic in recent months, so LinkedIn, the network for professionals, sought to clarify the principles that guide its efforts to protect its members and maintain their trust. Senior vice president and general counsel Blake Lawit wrote in a ..
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| 18 hours ago The Halloween costumes are off, but Pinterest kicked November off with a refreshed look for its iOS and Android applications. Search is now in a main navigation bar, enabling Pinners to access personalized and trending searches with a swipe. The following tab was moved to the top of the home feed, giving ..
| 20 hours ago Pinterest reported revenue of $279.7 million in the third quarter of 2019, up 47% from $190.2 million in the year-earlier period, but its net loss soared 561% over the same time period, to $124.7 million from $18.9 million, using generally accepted accounting principles. The company pointed out that it was profitable ..
Facebook’s Halloween treat for developers was the release of application-programming interfaces Graph API v5.0 and Marketing API v5.0. Software engineer Evan Klein said in a blog post that the social network will limit the number of ads each page can run simultaneously in mid-2020, explaining that excessively high ad volume can hinder an advertiser’s performance and ..
| 14 hours ago Machine or human? Human or machine? The debate resurfaced during Facebook’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday. Goldman Sachs analyst Heather Bellini referenced the 35,000 people Facebook has dedicated to safety and the company’s budget in this area during the call’s question-and-answer period. Bellini asked, “How long does this have to be as resource-intensive from ..
| 6 hours ago “We’ve found ourselves in the middle of the debate about what political speech is acceptable in the upcoming campaigns,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his opening remarks during the company’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday. Talk about an understatement. Roughly one hour before the call kicked off, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted ..
| 16 hours ago Facebook said during its third-quarter earnings call Wednesday that about 2.2 billion people currently use its family of applications—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger— on a daily basis, up from 2.1 billion in the second quarter of 2019. On a monthly basis, those totals are 2.8 billion and 2.7 billion, respectively. Chief ..
| 7 hours ago Facebook detailed some updates to Messenger Platform resulting from the release of the social network’s Graph API (application-programming interface) v5.0. Software engineer Nitin Garg detailed all the updates to Facebook’s flagship messaging app in a blog post. Brands with multiple apps connected to Messenger Platform can now easily select which one ..
| 6 hours ago Facebook’s slap on the wrist from the U.K. over the Cambridge Analytica scandal is in the record books, as the company agreed to pay a £500,000 ($644,731) fine, without being forced to admit any wrongdoing. The Information Commissioner’s Office, the privacy regulator in the U.K., imposed its maximum financial penalty on ..
| 7 hours ago Sample content from one of the pages removed by Facebook Facebook removed three more networks of accounts for coordinated inauthentic behavior, all of which originated in Russia. Head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher said in a Newsroom post that the three networks were connected to entities associated with Russian financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin, ..
