Tag: Snapchat
Snapchat adds Friendship Profiles and Bitmoji Stories to boost social media app
Snapchat is introducing two new features in its latest attempt to lure users back to the private messaging social app: Friendship Profiles and Bitmoji Stories. Friendship Profiles, which is rolling […]
Snapchat launches payment system
Snapchat has beaten Facebook to it – despite rumours that the latter was planning to build a cash-sending service into its Messenger app, Snapchat has got there first, and added […]
The Digest: Microsoft pulls another dodgy patch… and 5 other things people are talking about this morning
[nextpage title=”Next”] Microsoft has again been forced to pull a patch to prevent nasty side-effects, according to The Register: “The patch that aimed to add ‘SHA-2 Hashing’ to Windows […]
Facebook experiments with disappearing posts
Facebook is taking a leaf out of Snapchat’s book and testing out self-destructing posts. The social network is running a pilot programme where it allows users to schedule an expiration time […]
Snapchat finally settles ownership dispute
Messaging service SnapChat has privately settled a long-running lawsuit with co-founder Frank Reginald Brown, who had accused chief executive Evan Spiegel and chief technology officer Bobby Murphy of unfairly removing […]
Now Facebook will pay users to experiment on them
Facebook appears to have learnt its lesson from the recent outcry over experiments that it carried out on its users. Sky News reports that Facebook is offering actual money to […]
Here's why Facebook Slingshot is highly likely to fail.
Last night Facebook unveiled its latest attempt at taking on the young upstart that is Snapchat. The ephemeral messaging service has become wildly successful, taking on millions of users… especially young people.. and taking them outside of Facebook's sphere of…
Facebook 'Slingshot' app to take on Snapchat
Facebook is reportedly working on a video-chat app, dubbed Slingshot, to rival the popular messaging service Snapchat. A report at PC Pro says that the rumoured app has been in development for some months, and could be launched within the…
Facebook to launch new self-destruct messaging app for worry-free sexting
Reports are coming in that Facebook are preparing to launch a brand new messaging app with a keen focus on user privacy. Ready before the end of the year according to All Things D, the app will let users set…
