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Meta Appoints New Board Members, Including UFC Chief Dana White
With Donald Trump returning to the White House for a second term, it certainly seems like that’s going to have some impact on how Meta approaches certain aspects of its business and planning moving forward. Along that line, today, Meta has announced three new board members, in Exor CEO John Elkann, investor Charlie Songhurst, and UFC chief Dana White. The…
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Online Shopping Reached New Highs in 2024 [Infographic]
How much of your Christmas shopping did you do online last year? If you’re like most people, your online purchases are steadily increasing, with the convenience and variety available via digital stores helping to drive more take-up of digital shopping. And that’s also seeing more and more people buying from social apps, with most platforms seeing an uptick in direct…
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X Plans to Launch ‘Money’ in Limited Form This Year
While Elon Musk’s plan to convert X into a payments hub, from which many expanded functions will arise, has seemingly been delayed in its initial approval process, X is still pushing ahead with the concept, which it’s now calling “X Money” as opposed to “X Payments”. Earlier in the week, in a post welcoming the new year, X CEO Linda…
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X Tests Dedicated Video Tab in Lower Function Bar
X looks to be close to launching a new button along the bottom function bar of the app, with its dedicated, immersive video feed to be directly accessible in one tap. As you can see in this example, shared by app researcher @p4mui, the bottom function bar on X is set to get a revamp, with a new icon for…
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What Happens on the Internet Every Minute (2024 Version)
It’s amazing to consider what happens on the internet every minute. That’s what makes Domo’s annual “Data Never Sleeps” so compelling, because it provides a simple snapshot of all of the web’s activity, via bite-sized summaries of our various cumulative online activities. This time around, for Domo’s 12th “Data Never Sleeps” report, it’s included AI processing and usage data points,…
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Meta’s Plan to Unleash AI Bot Profiles in its Apps Could Actually Work
If you thought that 2024 was a big year for social platforms pushing AI elements into their apps, you ain’t seen nothing yet, with Meta looking to bring even more AI to your feeds over the next year. How is it going to do that? Well, aside from injecting AI chatbots into every aspect that it can, Meta’s next plan…
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Trump Files Supreme Court Bid to Save TikTok
With 22 days remaining till TikTok is effectively forced out of the U.S., President-elect Donald Trump is seemingly looking to make good on his campaign trail pledge to save the app. Or at the least, he wants an opportunity to negotiate an alternative solution that would keep the app available for Americans. Today, the Trump transition team has filed an…
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X Increases X Premium+ Price by 30%
Despite X Premium (formerly Twitter Blue) failing to catch on the way that Elon Musk had hoped, the platform’s keen to find new ways to boost its revenue intake, as it looks to integrate more AI elements, which come at a significant cost, while also offsetting its ad revenue losses. Along that line, just before Christmas, X announced that the…
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X Touts Business Success in 2024 and Rising Opportunities
Despite losing millions of users to other apps, despite losing millions of dollars in ad revenue, and despite struggling to build its slate of original video programming. Despite all of this, X continues to tell us that everything’s all good, and in fact, better than ever, as it seeks to rebrand and remarket the former bird app. This week, X…
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Meta Launches Updated Affiliate Link Displays in Posts and Comments
Meta’s looking to expand its opportunities for creators to make money from affiliate links in their Facebook posts, by making supported product links more prominent within Reels, videos, photos, and text posts. As you can see in this example, Meta’s looking to boost exposure for affiliate links by giving them more presence within Reels, taking up the bottom segment of…
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