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WhatsApp boasts 200M monthly active users, now bigger than Twitter

, Apr 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

WhatsApp's popularity has skyrocketed since its launch back in 2009. At All Things D's conference, D: Dive Into Mobile, Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp, stated that the smartphone app is even more popular than Twitter now. It currently has over 200 million monthly active users, who send out and receive over 20 billion messages each day. WhatsApp processes a estimated total of 12 billion outbound messages and 8 billion inbound messages on a daily basis. Read The Full Story

Chat Heads bringing Facebook Home to iPhone and iPad today [UPDATE]

, Apr 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

This week it's been announced - but not updated quite yet - that the iOS version of Facebook will be getting a bit of Facebook Home for the iPad and iPhone. Though the full version of Facebook Home really isn't a possibility for Apple's mobile products the way their software is set up, the Chat Heads piece of the puzzle is being teased by Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and mobile head Cory Ondrejka today at the AllThingsD Dive Into Mobile conference taking place this week. Read The Full Story

Facebook partnering with attorneys general for privacy awareness

, Apr 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Let's face it: Facebook privacy is something of a misnomer -- it's hard to use "Facebook" and "privacy" in the same sentence without it being considered negative. However, the social networking giant knows it, and it has announced that it will be partnering up with 19 state attorneys general in order to raise awareness for teen privacy on Facebook. Read The Full Story

Electronic Arts shutting down three Facebook games

, Apr 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

In what is most likely one of the steps in Electronic Arts' pan to do some re-organization, the game publisher has announced that they will be shutting down three more of their Facebook games, which include The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society. These three titles will see their doors close on June 14 this year. Read The Full Story

Facebook Home is Facebook’s second chance at wowing the mobile industry

, Apr 14th 2013 Discuss [0]

Back in 2010, when the mobile industry was rapidly rising in innovation and technology, Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg decided to create a mobile app for its social networking service that could work universally on all mobile operating systems. At the time, it seemed like a great idea, however, it was "probably one of the biggest mistakes we've ever made," Zuckerberg tells CNN. Initially, Zuckerberg believed that standalone mobile apps was just a fad that would disappear, and that people would primarily just surf the web via their smartphones. Read The Full Story

New Facebook Home ad features Mark Zuckerberg and a screaming goat

, Apr 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook has revealed its next TV ad for Facebook Home, and this time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is featured in it. In the video, Zuckerberg is making an announcement about the launch of Facebook Home, and how the app centers around the people, not the apps, and yadda yadda yadda. While he drones on and on, to the boredom of the employees, one employee takes to his HTC First, and scrolls around his Facebook Home interface. Read The Full Story

Google acquires Behavio: social prediction connects with the big G

, Apr 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

When Google comes to your door – or your digital door – and tells you they’d like you to join their collective, generally you say yes, let’s do it! That’s what Behavio has announced they’ve done this week. Behavio is a company that was Knight Foundation funded and aimed to develop apps that would accurately detect social and behavioral trends of you, your friends, and everyone around you.

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Hostility on social networks rises to 78% of users

, Apr 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Social networks are a great place to vent your frustrations to your "friends," but sometimes they can be a hotbed for debates and arguments. According to a new survey that polled almost 2,700 people, approximately 20% people have reduced in-person contact with someone due to an argument or debate that occurred online. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Creative Director resigns after Twitter rant

, Apr 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Social networks, Twitter in particular, provide an odd sort of communication dichotomy: while it is very much public with a wide audience, the isolated nature of using it can delude us at times, making us forget just how visible our words and statements are. Such was perhaps the case with Adam Orth, who went by Orthy on Twitter and worked as Microsoft's Creative Director until a rant cost him his job. Read The Full Story

Facebook embeds movies, TV shows, music, books into status updates

, Apr 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook announced a small new feature coming to status updates. Users can now integrate what they're watching, reading, listening to, etc. in status updates. Of course, users have been able to do this freely since the beginning of Facebook, but the social network has added the ability to share what you're watching, complete with the movie's icon and a link to the movie's Facebook page. Read The Full Story

Facebook charges you to message celebrities directly

, Apr 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Facebook rolled out a new paid messaging feature late last month that allows British users to message their favorite celebrities for a fee. The paid messaging service was another way for Facebook to generate more revenue, however, it may be crossing a line. The paid messaging service sends your message straight to the celebrities' priority inbox, and the scale of the fee depends on the popularity of the celebrity. Read The Full Story

Tumblr app for Android gets revamped

, Apr 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

Tumblr has just launched a revamp of its Android app, implementing the beautiful, Holo UI into the app, and improving user experience with a bunch of new features. It's strange that the Android app is getting revamped before the iOS app, but it's a nice change of pace. Unfortunately, the revamped app still doesn't have support for GIFs, which is something users have been wanting for ages. Read The Full Story
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