Snapchat takes on messaging apps with text, real-time video
With its latest update, Snapchat is embracing messaging and live video. Read more »
{"source":"http:\/\/search.gigaom.com\/technology\/photo-sharing\/wijax\/383af13036138b805db0da550b1f5914","varname":"wijax_7aec19977116731283b397b71ef4f410","title_element":"h2","title_class":"widget-title","title_before":"%3Ch2%20class%3D%22widget-title%22%3E","title_after":"%3C%2Fh2%3E"}
With its latest update, Snapchat is embracing messaging and live video. Read more »
Confide is a Snapchat-style app aimed at executives and VCs who want to send messages that can only be read once before they vanish. Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg says his approach to mobile consists of breaking the monolithic Facebook app down into smaller, more discrete experiences — ones that may look and feel nothing like the big… Read more »
Video sharing platform Vine now gives users the ability to send video and text messages privately. Read more »
Facebook’s first high-profile acquisition is chugging along: Instagram said a blog post Tuesday that it’s surpassed 200 million monthly active users, up from 100 million just one year ago. According to the post, 50 million of… Read more »
Instagram (s fb) users for Android (s goog) have a big update coming their way, as the company announced Tuesday that the redesigned Instagram 5.1 for Android cuts loading times in half… Read more »
Just a few months after it started testing ads in user streams, Instagram has signed an advertising deal with agency Omnicom that is reportedly worth up to $100 million. Read more »
Searching through web video sucks, with most of the data coming from tags. But Op3nvoice wants to make audio from video searchable in the same way that the text-based web is… Read more »
Facebook will crack down on how guns are sold on its platform, but is it enough to curb it entirely? Read more »
Snapchat hired away a top Google engineer, then there was a story about it, and that’s where the trouble began. Read more »