This week in social media, both Facebook and Foursquare implemented a piece of their separate-app strategy -- both leading to some controversy. Meanwhile, Twitter quietly removed Bing translation, a feature it added in time for the World Cup this year, likely because it wasn't really ready for prime time.
Pinterest emulates other apps by adding chat. A private messaging feature as well as group messaging capabilities has been added to Pinterest. This is the first time Pinterest has allowed this feature.
This week in social media, Facebook opened up the Internet to every person in Zambia through its Internet.org app. Meanwhile, things don't look so bleak for Twitter, partly thanks to the World Cup, and Snapchat could soon be valued at $10 billion -- no wonder Facebook just launched yet another Snapchat clone.
The app will introduce many people to the Internet and give them new resources and tools. Internet users in one African nation will now have greater access to the web thanks to Facebook's work in expanding access to impoverished people in the country.
After announcing the move in April, FB is making mobile users move to a separate app to chat Facebook is forcing mobile users to use the Messenger app if they want to continue texting their Facebook friends, according to CNN.
A Texas woman is suing Facebook for $123 million alleging that she notified the popular social network when she became a victim of revenge porn, but it failed to act until months later.
Spanish-language social media pages are increasing in prominence and becoming necessary for numerous educational institutions, politicians, places of worship, government agencies and businesses, all of which are beginning to see the value of Latino branding and Spanish-language content as the number of Latinos in the U.S. continue to climb.
This week in social media, Facebook took a victory lap on Wall Street, while Twitter's earnings next week look to be disappointing. Also disappointing, but not surprising, were the diversity figures released this week by Twitter and Pinterest.
The social media post isn't enough for a conviction, depends on what he tells prosecutors A man was arrested in northern Mexico's Nuevo Leon state after he wrote a Facebook post confessing that he killed his fiancee's mother, according to a report from IANS Live.
Yahoo has made a new acquisition, this time of a more behind-the-scenes asset than a Tumblr or Blink. Yahoo has made a deal with mobile analytics company Flurry, and despite the fact that you've probably never heard of the company before, it could be one of the largest Yahoo buys under CEO Marissa Mayer.
The Colombian singer thanked her fans via Facebook for helping her achieve such a record. World-renowned Colombian singer Shakira has broken a new social media record, which has propelled her name even farther into stardom.
This week in social media, a campaign was launched to temp people to take 99 consecutive days off of Facebook. Meanwhile, Snapchat was revealed to officially be the most popular social media app for young people, and you can now embed Vines in Tumblr blogs (how very cross-platform!).
After Brazil's disappointing 7-1 defeat to Germany, the internet was ablaze with hilarious memes that were created and shared throughout the web. Latin Post.com take a look at some of the funniest ones from social media.
This week, the “study hit the fan” for Facebook, as the world of online media picked up on the controversial Facebook emotion research that we reported early last Saturday and a privacy group filed a formal complaint with the FTC. Meanwhile, Twitter could introduce an integrated “Buy Now” button, Vine added “Loop Counts” and YouTube was found to be more popular than television.
A roundup of the biggest, most interesting or weirdest social media news from the week. This week in social media, Facebook released a diversity report in line with the rest of Silicon Valley -- i.
Following in the footsteps of Google, Yahoo and LinkedIn, social network Facebook released its diversity statistics report, and it also continues the excessive white male employee trend.
