Tag: Social Media

8 life lessons everyone should learn before 2020

The decade was rife with rules for life — we’d do well to pay attention. It’s been a decade full of lessons: who to trust, when to speak out and how to stream big events online after you’ve broken up with your cable company.  In 2010, the first iPhone was only three years old. Uber and Lyft didn’t exist, and […]

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Instagram breaking advertising rules

Instagram posts about vaping banned for breaking advertising rules British American Tobacco (BAT) is among four e-cigarette sellers banned from promoting their products on public Instagram pages after adverts appeared alongside pictures of well-known celebrities.  BAT claimed its posts that included pictures of Lily Allen, Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek and other famous faces only “provided information” to users and were […]

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Instagram now lets you upload multiple photos on one Story post with ‘layout’ feature

A third-party tool brought inside Instagram’s newest Stories feature allows users to post multiple photos on one screen. The feature, called Layout, is launching globally today, and people can incorporate up to six photos. It’s a simple feature, but one that’ll likely be popular, especially given the multiple third-party story-editing apps that offer something similar. […]

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Facebook, Google drop out of top 10 ‘best places to work’ list

Google employees in Venice joined their counterparts around the world and staged a mass walkout in November 2018 in protest of sexual misconduct at the company. Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Big tech companies like Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, long seen as some of the world’s most desirable workplaces offering […]

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Will 2020 Finally Be the Year AR and VR Matter for Facebook?

It’s been said before, but next year might actually be a breakout year for marketable applications of augmented and virtual reality technologies. Virtual reality (VR) and its close cousin augmented reality (AR) have been “next year’s big thing” for several years in a row, failing time and again to create the public frenzy — or […]

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