Wow. One billion dollars is how much Google paid Apple in 2014 to be the default search engine on their iPhone line, according to court documents from Oracle's lawsuit against Apple. While it's not a flat fee, the $1B comes from Apple receiving 34% cut of...
Facebook announced today a new venture called "Sports Stadium". What is it? According to the social media site, it's a "dedicated place to experience sports in real-time with your friends and the world." So it's a live, real-time chatroom (a la Twitter) just on Facebook with graphical...
Popular messaging app WhatsApp has dropped its subscription service, the company announced today. With almost a billion users, myself included, WhatsApp has become the go-to for message friends/family internationally. But paying the $1 subscription to continue to use the service became problematic. But now under Facebook, will...
Facebook announced yesterday a new feature called "Instant Articles". What is it? When viewing your newsfeed on mobile, instead of clicking a news link that takes you to the source website (away from Facebook) causing, on occasion, excessive load times, the click will "instantly" slide the...
In a new post today, Facebook announced that they will continue to filter promotional, ad-type of posts out of user newsfeeds. As Facebook grows, businesses are constantly trying to push their brand into newsfeeds. Some with success. But mostly users don't like it, or so Facebook...
Love it or hate it, Facebook has come a monster. The oft-controversial social networking site just announced that is has reached the 500 million user mark. “This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world,” said founder Mark...