Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …
Read More »WhatsApp copies Telegram to add one-way ‘broadcast’ mode to group chats
“Good artists borrow great artists steal” is a phrase that Facebook seems acutely aware of. It’s common to speak of Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-app-now-social-network, borrowing from Snapchat, but now Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is increasingly drawing its innovation from others such as Telegram. This week, WhatsApp outed a new feature …
Read More »Young people are ditching Facebook for news and using WhatsApp instead
Alex Wong/Getty Images Young people are ditching the Facebook app as a source of their news, a new study has found. Instead, they’re turning to messaging apps like WhatsApp — which is also owned by Facebook. The study was conducted prior to changes Facebook made to its algorithm to favour …
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