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Meta’s AI-Powered Smartwatch Is Slated for Release Later This Year
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It looks like Meta’s on-again, off-again relationship with its smartwatch project is back on, with The Information reporting that the company is planning to launch its own smartwatch, powered by artificial intelligence, later this year. According to The Information, Meta’s smartwatch, currently…
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Snapchat CEO Criticizes Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel does not agree with Australia’s new social media age restrictions, and he’s shared his opinion on what he sees as a flawed approach in a new opinion piece. Spiegel’s comments, published in The Financial Times, come as more…
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Meta Is Shutting Down Its Messenger Website
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Meta is retiring its separate Messenger website, which looks to be another sign of the company stepping back its plan to create an integrated messaging back-end, in which all of its various messaging platforms would have been interconnected. Messenger users are being…
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LinkedIn Launches New Campaign for Premium
LinkedIn is looking to make a bigger push on its Premium subscription packages this year, as it continues to build on its revenue options, and complement its ad business. Its latest promotion for Premium highlights the benefits of the add-on package in helping people find jobs, by highlighting some of the reasons why people might want to move on from…
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X Looks to Combat Bots with New Detection Tools
X has announced a new crackdown on bots and spam, including improved detection of artificial intelligence-powered bot profiles and scraping activity, as it continues to battle fake engagement in the app. Though that may well be a losing battle in the AI era, with AI tools now enabling the creation of more sophisticated, more life-like bots, which are increasingly harder…
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LinkedIn Outlines More Measures to Combat Engagement Pods
LinkedIn has provided an update on its efforts to combat fake engagement in the app, with the platform looking to crack down on automated comments submitted via third-party tools, in response to user concerns about an influx of non-genuine activity. In July last year, we reported on LinkedIn’s evolving focus on artificial engagement in the app, based on user reports…
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LinkedIn Adds SMB-Focused Premium Subscription
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. LinkedIn’s looking to get more small businesses to sign-up to its Premium program, with a new All-in-One professional dashboard offering that aims to make it easier for SMBs to manage their LinkedIn presence. LinkedIn’s All-in-One platform incorporates client prospecting, marketing, and hiring…
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Pinterest Posts Strong Q4 Results
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Pinterest has published its latest quarterly earnings update, posting solid increases in user numbers and revenue, as it continues to establish its position as a key platform for shopping-related discovery. First, on users. Pinterest added another 19 million monthly actives in Q4,…
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Facebook Adds AI-Generated Profile Videos
Here’s another artificial intelligence feature from Meta that falls into the category of “Why?” Today, Facebook has announced a new option to use AI to animate your profile image, with a range of preset options available to give your headshot motion and depth. As explained by Facebook: “You can now animate your profile picture, turning a still photo into a…
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LinkedIn Shares Tips on How to Optimize Your Content for AI Chatbots
With more and more people using AI chatbots within their discovery efforts, traditional SEO is losing its impact, with Google referring fewer direct connections, and users getting more info from AI answers direct. That’s changed the paradigm for online discovery, and recently, LinkedIn outlined how it’s adjusted its SEO strategy to better align with this, which has led to a…
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