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AR software head is leaving his position at Meta

11/28/202311/27/2023 Sam Lambert

Don Box is stepping down from his position within the company. Don Box, the head of AR software at Meta, is stepping down from that position within the social media company, according to recent media reports. This has led some to wonder about Meta’s future in developing its augmented reality glasses. Meta has been working on the development of AR software and hardware alike, specifically in the form of glasses. That said, many are now wondering what the future will hold for that tech now that its Vice President of…

Unverified accounts will not longer appear in Twitter’s recommended tweets

04/03/202303/31/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Unverified accounts - Twitter Recommended

As of April 15, the “For You” feed will only include accounts with a paid-for checkmark. As of midway through this month, unverified accounts will no longer be appearing in the recommended “For You” algorithmic feed, according to an announcement CEO Elon Musk made last week. Only accounts paying for the Twitter Blue feature will be included in the recommendations. According to Elon Musk’s post that announced this change, recommending only tweets from accounts that have a blue badge and not unverified accounts is “the only realistic way to address…

Games can now use the new mobile news feed at Facebook as a viral channel

12/25/201111/23/2013 Stephanie Beck

There was a time that game companies at Facebook would draw a broader number of users through the news feeds of the gamers… which distributed the message to non-gamers, and though this channel was cut back, the social media company has now announced that it is using the mobile news feed to test game stories. Until now, game companies have been forced to use paid marketing techniques and actual word of mouth (as opposed to its digital equivalent) in order to grow their user numbers. However, this reinstatement of the…

eBay gives PayPal mobile a boost through purchase of Zong

07/11/201107/11/2011 L. Green

eBay has purchased Zong, the mobile payment provider, to give PayPal’s mobile commerce position a significant boost. Zong’s purchase price was $240 million, and eBay intends to use it to connect to Zong’s tremendous 250 wireless carriers and 3.2 billion users. Consumers are already using Zong in order to make purchases simply by using their mobile telephone numbers. This allows the mobile payment service to verify the transaction so that it can add the charge to the mobile service bill of the shopper. Zong is already well recognized by gamers…