Google plans to begin verifying the identities of developers who distribute Android apps, even outside the Play Store, rolling out in phases from September 2026
Stop this shit Google. If I want to sideload an app, I should be able to sideload an app. — www.androidauthority.com/android- deve... @natanael : This is what Apple got sued for and lost over in EU...
A look at how central banks are increasingly using Instagram as inflation rises; Bank Indonesia is the most-followed with 699K, followed by Venezuela and Brazil
The world's central banks are mixing it with wellness influencers, makeup experts and amateur chefs on Instagram as they increasingly turn … Tweets: @samsonellis , @b50 , @deepcutstweets , @samsonelli...
Instagram says it is running a small global test to let users toggle Like counts on or off on their own or others' posts; Facebook will run a similar test
Facebook and Instagram have been toying with hiding likes … Rachel Lerman / Washington Post : What's not to like? Instagram lets users hide ‘like’ counts on posts. Hansa Verma / BGR India : Instagram...
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says the company needs to “make our case as strongly as we can” against Apple's planned changes to IDFA tracking in iOS 14
@mosseri really is Tariq Aziz of Facebook. I mean, really 🙄 https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : I see Zucka's Facebook lieutenant now CEO of Instagram is going full-on propaganda mode t...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
- CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China Tweets: @sarahfrier , @moonalice , @frankpasquale , @mathewi , @benthomps...
Sources: Zuckerberg plans to add end-to-end encryption to Instagram and Messenger and integrate their messaging infrastructure and WhatsApp's by end of the year
This is why there should have been far more scrutiny during Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp which now clearly seem like horizontal mergers that should have triggered antitrust scruti...