Much anticipated ICO for
social messaging giant Kik has already drawn $ 70 million in its first few hours.
The much anticipated token sale for
social messaging giant Kik, which is today offering buyers the chance to purchase tokens that will power future apps on its platform, launched at 9 a.m. EST, drawing upwards of $ 70 million in its first few hours.
The much anticipated token sale for
social messaging giant Kik, which is today offering buyers the chance to purchase tokens that will power future apps on its platform, launched at 9 a.m. EST, drawing
Not exact matches
Also on March 27, a group of Facebook users filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the
social media
giant's Messenger app collected information about their phone calls and text
messages.
The
social network
giant has recently launched group direct
messages as well as native video sharing and editing.
The departure comes a few years after his
messaging app was acquired by the
social - media
giant for $ 22 billion.
Facebook has been bent on copying Snapchat ever since the
social media
giant tried unsuccessfully in 2013 to buy what was then an ephemeral photo -
messaging app.
As demonstrated by the far - reaching success and impact of Chinese Internet companies — such as e-commerce
giant Alibaba's record - breaking «11.11 Singles» Day» sales of over US$ 17 billion, as well as the incredible saturation of over 700 million active users achieved by Tencent's
messaging and
social networking platform, Wechat, and its new mobile payment system, WePay, to name a couple — in many respects, China's mobile and digital infrastructure has surpassed the systems available in many economies, including those in Canada.
Social media
giants Twitter and Facebook have said paid for and free content with Russian links carrying divisive election related
messages spun across their platforms ahead of the crunch poll.
Riding the undercurrent this year is the HTC Cha Cha mobile phone, which is a device with which the mobile
giant promises to satisfy an exceptional growth in
social networking and instant
messaging.
The
social giant rolled out a new settings page for its mobile app on Wednesday, and also added a new dashboard called «Access Your Information» where users can find all the stuff they've handed over to Facebook — like photos and comments and
messages — in one place.
As we reported today, TechCrunch recently discovered the
social media
giant has been quietly retracting or «unsending»
messages sent from company executives (including Zuckerburg) to other Facebook users.
Reports have even indicated that Facebook scraped call and text
message data for Android users, and has done so for years — though the
social media
giant has disputed this claim.
WhatsApp the
messaging platform owned by
social media
giant Facebook meanwhile was high on releasing several updates from UPI payment integration to adding group description, it...
Grewal said that the
social networking
giant learned earlier in the week that London - based Cambridge Analytica, used by campaigns to strategically target personalized political
messages, and its parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), had misused data collected on 270,000 Facebook users.
Brazilian prosecutors initially asked the company to provide them with
messages of persons who they suspected defrauded the healthcare system of the state of Amazonas, with the
social media
giant insisting it complied with the investigation as much as it was legally required to but without elaborating on the matter.
Joining the chorus against a
messaging app exclusively for kids from Facebook, British Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned the
social media
giant to stay away from his children.
David Marcus, Vice President of
messaging products at Facebook, said in a Facebook post that the new feature on Facebook Messenger works as an extension to the voice clips feature that the
social networking
giant added in 2013.
BlackBerry, the one - time major smartphone manufacturer, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook that alleges the
social networking
giant infringed on BlackBerry patents regarding
messaging services.