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How tech companies are recognizing Pride month
June is LGBTQ+ Pride month, and tech companies are eager to show their support.
Will a shareholders' revolt make Silicon Valley more socially conscious?
Employees and customers have been pushing tech companies to be more socially aware. Now that shareholders are speaking up, will change finally come?
Companies use Facebook’s advertising algorithms to discriminate
A new report by ProPublica reveals that Facebook’s job recruitment ads are discriminating against job seekers based on their age.
Why is Facebook’s iOS app so bloated?
Facebook’s app weighs in at more than 380 MB when you download it from the iOS App Store. Is it time to just get rid of Facebook altogether?
Why you need to stop comparing Snap to Facebook
Snap’s short life as a public company took a turn for the worse this week. While dramatic slides in value aren’t unprecedented for new publicly traded social firms, Snap does have some perception problems to address.
Facebook nears 2 billion users, warns ad growth will slow
Facebook outperformed financial projections for the eighth consecutive quarter and is closing in on more than 2 billion monthly users. However, the company says expect ad growth to slow.
Banking bots highlight conversational commerce trend
Western Union has built a chatbot that lets consumers wire money by conversing with a digital assistant in Facebook Messenger.
How Facebook plans to bring Messenger to business
Speaking at the Collision conference this week, Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky said the company remains committed to making Messenger a multi-purpose platform.
Facebook's text understanding AI is coming to a phone near you
Developers have a new tool to help mobile apps understand text, thanks to a Facebook open source project update on Tuesday. The social networking company’s AI research group released a new version of FastText, a programming library...
Can the enterprise save Facebook bots?
Facebook’s bumpy introduction of bot capabilities inside its Messenger service may be saved by an unlikely candidate: business users.
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