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Microsoft, Facebook and everyone else are building the metaverse. Will you...

CNET reports: "Over the past few years, the term metaverse has re-emerged, applied to Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft, VR, AR, even Animal Crossing." Read more

Twitter Launches Own Auto Link-Shortening Feature

San Francisco - Twitter on Wednesday launched its in-house URL shortening service, which will see links pasted by users when tweeting on Twitter.com automatically...

Facebook tests Forecast, an app for making predictions about world events,...

TechCrunch reports: "Forecast, a new project from Facebook’s internal R&D group, NPE Team, is launching today to build a community around predictions. The iOS...

​​United States v. Facebook: What Hollywood Has at Stake

The Hollywood Reporter reports: "A federal judge may take up whether the government waited too long to sue to unwind Facebook’s buying spree, but...

MTV Adds A ‘Best Metaverse Performance’ Category To The Video Music...

IGN reports: "MTV has added a "Best Metaverse Performance" category to the Video Music Awards, pitting the likes of Ariana Grande's performance in Fortnite...

Twitter Gets Special Permission To Be ‘X’ In The iOS App...

The Verge reports: "Twitter, which is rebranding as X, is now listed as X in the iOS App Store, suggesting the app got special...

The metaverse will not look the way Facebook imagines it

VentureBeat reports: "Much has been said about the metaverse recently, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook would be evolving into a “metaverse” company....

Jack Dorsey Remains Twitter CEO After Company Makes Peace With Activist...

Variety reports: "Jack Dorsey will continue at helm of Twitter after the company reached an agreement with an activist investor that had been potentially...

TikTok Blames ‘Technical Glitch’ for Suppressing View Counts on #BlackLivesMatter, #GeorgeFloyd...

Variety reports: "TikTok said a “technical glitch” last week made it temporarily appear as if videos using #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd hashtags had zero views...

Facebook debuts ‘Live Shopping Fridays’ featuring beauty, fashion and skincare brands

TechCrunch reports: "Facebook wants to whet consumers’ appetite for live streamed shopping with this week’s launch of “Live Shopping Fridays” event series, which will...