Mobile

Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first ten Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was… Read More »Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable

Facebook’s social graph is aging, full of long-lost acquaintances and hometown friends you don’t care much about seeing in the News Feed any more. But… Read More »Old Facebook finally wants you to ‘Meet New Friends’

Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile. But now Facebook has found… Read More »Facebook Dating opens to friends with Secret Crush

Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now… Read More »Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts

To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series… Read More »Facebook Messenger will get desktop apps, co-watching, emoji status

Oof. This isn’t the sort of thing you want to see when you’re rounding the corner of your crowdfunding campaign: There are long shots and… Read More »Energizer’s massive battery/phone proves a viral hit ≠ crowdfunding success

Alphabet’s Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings. The hardware team met with some difficulties, as well, owing… Read More »Alphabet cites ‘headwinds’ in smartphone sales, teases I/O hardware announcement

On the one hand, you’ve got Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey lamenting the “like” button’s existence, and threatening to just kill the thing off entirely for… Read More »Twitter makes ‘likes’ easier to use in its twttr prototype app. (Nobody tell Jack.)

RosieReality, a startup out of Zürich developing consumer augmented reality experiences, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by RedAlpine. Other backers include Shasta… Read More »RosieReality, a Swiss startup using AR to get kids interested in robotics and programming, scores £2.2M seed

Want your video game character to look just like you? Soon you’ll be able to scan an in-game code with Snapchat to play as your… Read More »Snapchat will let you play as your Bitmoji in video games

You might think it’s redundant with Instagram Stories, or just don’t want to see high school friends’ boring lives, but ephemeral Snapchat-style Stories now have… Read More »You might hate it, but Facebook Stories now has 500M users

The Galaxy Fold has been the most polarizing product I can recall having reviewed. Everyone who saw it wanted to play with the long-promised smartphone… Read More »Samsung Galaxy Fold review: future shock

A massive penalty hangs over Facebook’s head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report. Facebook reached 2.38 billion monthly users, up 2.5… Read More »Facebook reserves $3B for FTC fine, but keeps growing with 2.38B users in Q1