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Host: Taylor Wiegert (www.twitter.com/twiegert)

This week’s headlines: NBC Announces New Streaming Service, Facebook Working on Meme App for Teens, Facebook Launches Community Actions and Facebook Launching Cross-Messaging Across Platforms.

The week’s news quick hits: Facebook Tests Feature to Share Events as Stories, Snap CFO Departing Company, Alex Jones Gets a Roku Channel That Gets Taken Away, Facebook Users Unaware their Interests are Collected, YouTube Limits Challenge Videos, FTC May Levy Record Fine on Facebook, Google Receives GDPR Fine, Netflix Lets Users Share to Instagram Stories, WhatsApp Limits Message Forwarding, Twitter Updates Website, Viacom Acquires Pluto TV, YouTube TV Goes National, Twitter Tests “Original Tweeter” Tag, Amazon Launches Autonomous Delivery Bot and Facebook Shutting Down Moments.

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Episode 261

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Reports More Measurement Discrepancies, Instagram Live Becomes Available to All Users, Snapchat Adds Four New Features, Twitter Adds Periscope Streaming to Core App, Facebook Launching Massive Update to Messenger’s Camera and Facebook Launches Effort to Fight Fake News.

The week’s news quick hits: A Slimmed Down Moments App Comes to Desktop, Facebook Launches Live 360 Videos, Snapchat Inks Slew of New Discover Deals, Flipboard Launches Promoted Roundup Editorial Ad Unit, Facebook Events App Available for Android, Instagram Launches Post Saving Feature, Instagram Reaches 600 Million Users, Facebook Testing Suggestions for M Virtual Assistant, Facebook Notifying Pages to Remove Snapcodes as Page Profile Pictures, Twitch Launches IRL Content Category, Yahoo Hit by Second Security Breach Affecting 1 Billion Users and Amazon Unbundles Prime Video.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Events are Getting Human Curation, Twitter Launches Stickers, LinkedIn Launches Programmatic Buying, Pinterest Adds New Shopping Bag Feature for Online Transactions and Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Gets Another Update.

The week’s news quick hits: Foursquare Location Data Integrating into Twitter, Facebook Testing New Page Layout, Facebook Launches New Slideshow Feature, Facebook Launches New Share and Save Chrome Buttons, Twitter Launches Dashboard App for Small Businesses, Twitter Hires VR Director, Facebook Audience Network Advertisers Can Now Block Ads from Running on Certain Sites, Facebook Rolls Out Fundraising Button for Users and Facebook Gives More Updates on Chatbots. 

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Episode 207

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This week’s headlines: Google Introduces Parent Company Alphabet, Twitter Removes Character Limit from Direct Messages, Facebook Testing News App and Twitter Launches Twitter Audience Platform.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter and the NFL Extend Partnership, Facebook Brings More Features to Audience Network, Twitter Makes Full Archive Search API Available, Periscope Hits 10 Million User Mark, Facebook Providing Cover Photo Options for Events, Foursquare Reveals Updated User Numbers and LinkedIn Launches LookUp.

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Episode 204

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This week’s headlines: Instagram Brings Search to Desktop, Facebook Gives Brands More Video Tools and Twitter Allows Advertisers to Buy Around Events Ahead of Time.

The week’s news quick hits: Twitter Experiments with Related Videos, Google+ Photos Shutting Down, Twitter Removes Custom Backgrounds, Yahoo Advertising Showing Rebound, Twitter Launches Safety Center and Pinterest Adds Save for Later Feature.

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Episode 192

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Launches Scrapbooks to Help Parents Share Photos, Twitter Plans to Put Ads on User Profiles, Facebook Launches New App Called Riff, YouTube Launches More Interactive TrueView Ads, Facebook Messenger Comes to Desktop and LinkedIn Acquires Lynda.com.

The week’s news quick hits: YouTube Testing 4K Resolution, Facebook Launching Test for Internet-Disseminating Drones this Summer, Vine Improves Video Resolution, Twitter Releases Curator Tool for Media Companies, Facebook Breaching EU Tracking Laws, Facebook Introduces Event Subscribe Button, Instagram Adds New Editing Features, Complaint Filed with FTC Regarding YouTube Kids, YouTube Preps for Subscription Service and Twitter Removes Discover Tab.

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This week’s headlines: Facebook Messenger Unrolled for Non-Users, Twitter Follower Case is Closed, Instagram Pulls Away from Twitter and Google+ Launches Communities.

The week’s news quick hits cover: Facebook Isn’t Buying Whatsapp (for now), Google Updates Gmail for iOS, Recurring Facebook Events Just Got Easier, Sponsored Stories Settlement Gets One Step Closer, The Facebook Vote Over Policy Changes is Open, 8,600 Tumblr Accounts Hacked, Socl Opens for Everyone, Twitter Expands Local Trends to More Cities, Facebook Ditches the Word “Subscribe” and Foursquare Allows Businesses to Create Events.