New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
The feature is convenient, but it can also leak sensitive data, consume bandwidth, and drain batteries. And some sites are worse than others. ...
The feature is convenient, but it can also leak sensitive data, consume bandwidth, and drain batteries. And some sites are worse than others. ...
As TikTok continues to dominate app download charts, its parent company, ByteDance, is looking to extend its reach even further.
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ByteDance launched a new messaging-focused app on Monda... ... As Facebook pushes ahead with its strategy to consolidate more of the backend of its various apps on to a single platform, it’s also doing a little simplifying and housekeeping. In the coming month, it will shut down Direct, the standalone Instagram direct messaging app that it was testing to rival Snapchat, on iOS and ...
Slack, the popular workplace messaging service, is taking its next step as it prepares to go public.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Slack is planning to release its listing prospectus to the public by Friday. The document will reveal that the ... ... There’s been a huge boom in the last decade of applications and services that rely on on real-time notifications and other alerts as a core part of how they operate, and today one of the companies that powers those notifications is announcing a growth round. PubNub, an infrastructure-as-a-service provider that provides a real-time network to send and ...
WhatsApp has rolled out a new common sense privacy setting that may also make it more difficult for harmful content to spread through the platform. Starting Wednesday, WhatsApp users will be able to specify who is able to add them to groups, and to a... ... SendBird, a San Francisco area startup, helps developers add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code. It’s an idea similar to Stripe for payments or Twilio for communications. Today, the company announced a $52 million Series B investment. The round was led by Iconiq Capital. Existing investors Shasta Ventures, August Capital, ...
There's no dearth of messaging platforms on the web, but Instagram DMs have likely become a big part of your online life.
A prototype, spotted by software engineer Jane Manchun Wong, shows the platform making moves toward making its direct messaging ... ... Insta-chat addicts, rejoice. You could soon be trading memes and emojis from your computer. Instagram is internally testing a web version of Instagram Direct messaging that lets people chat without the app. If, or more likely, when this rolls out publicly, users on a desktop or laptop PC or Mac, a non-Android or iPhone, or ... Collaboration tools tend to be geared towards workers who are sitting at a desk for much of the day, but there are plenty of shift workers, also known as first line workers, who rarely use a computer, but still need to communicate with one another and management. Microsoft released several new features today aimed at ...New Research Reveals the Hidden Downsides of Link Previews
TikTok’s owner is getting into the messaging game
Instagram is killing Direct, its standalone Snapchat clone app, in the next several weeks
Slack will soon reveal listing prospectus as it prepares to go public
PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month
WhatsApp adds new group messaging privacy settings
SendBird snags $52M Series B to expand messaging API tool
Instagram seems to be testing direct messaging on web
Instagram is now testing a web version of Direct messages
Microsoft’s latest Teams features take aim at shift workers