This week, just over a decade later after Facebook acquired WhatsApp, ads are finally coming to the popular chat app.
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Mark Zuckerberg sees future social feeds filled with AI content and AI friends. And fuelling this synthetic future will be AI ads.
Cape Town-based social media platform Sociable combines online activity with in-person meetups.
WhatsApp for iPad is finally here, while Apple is planning a much bigger focus on gaming across its devices.
Meta has launched facial recognition tools aimed at fighting the scourge of scams and account takeovers in South Africa.
Meta Platforms will open its Threads social network to almost all advertisers globally soon.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 over US antitrust worries.
OpenAI is working on its own X-like social media network, The Verge has reported, citing multiple sources.
Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.
Elon Musk’s xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at $33-billion.