Episode 432

This week it’s just the quick hits.

The week’s news quick hits: Quibi Content Gets a Home on Roku, Facebook Creates New Civil Rights Position, Parler Sues Amazon After Losing Hosting Services, Snap Acquires StreetCred to Build Local Capabilities, YouTube Temporarily Suspends Trump's Channel, Most Americans Get News From and Don't Trust Social Media, Signal and Telegram Surge Following WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook, TikTok Dominates in Time Spent by US Consumers and Alphabet Closes Fitbit Acquisition Without Regulatory Approval.

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Episode 431

This week’s headlines: Twitter Buys Breaker, WhatsApp Data Will Be Shared with Facebook and Social Companies Ban Trump.

The week’s news quick hits: Amazon Acquires Wondery to Build Up Its Podcast Chops, Facebook Pages Undergoing Overhaul, Instagram Testing New Desktop Stories Format and TikTok AR Effects Get Lidar Upgrade.

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Episode 430

This week’s headlines: Apple Intros Privacy Nutrition Labels and Big Tech's Litigation Rundown.

The week’s news quick hits: Reddit Acquires Dubsmash, Facebook Adds Hashtag Topics to Groups, Snapchat Launches New Game, Twitter Acquires Squad, TikTok Launches TV App, Twitter and Reddit Adopt More Transparency Measures, Facebook Works to Clone Cameo and Walmart Tests Shoppable Livestreams with TikTok.

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Episode 429

This week’s headlines: WhatsApp Gets Commerce Upgrade and Antitrust Lawsuit Filed Against Facebook.

The week’s news quick hits: TikTok Divestment Deal Timeline Not Extended, Twitter Introduces Frequency Caps for All Campaigns, Facebook In-Stream Ads Test Ad Pods, YouTube Adds HDR to Livestreaming, Foursquare Gets Brand Refresh, Stadia Can Stream Directly to YouTube and Twitter Lets Users Share Tweets on Snapchat.

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Episode 428

This week’s headlines: Facebook Acquires Kustomer and Snapchat Launches Spotlight.

The week’s news quick hits: Instagram Gets Keyword Search, Fleets Come to Twitter, Spotify Gets Into the Stories Game, TikTok Ban Still a Possibility, Reddit Reveals Daily User Numbers, Libra Association Gets an Overhaul, Salesforce Buys Slack, Amazon Buys Wondery and TikTok Allowing for Longer Videos.

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Episode 426

This week’s headlines: What Social Did to Limit Election Misinformation

The week’s news quick hits: Q3 Earnings Show Big Growth in Digital Ad Revenues Among Triopoly, TikTok and Sony Reach Deal, Judge Blocks Restrictions Shutting Down TikTok, WhatsApp Gets Disappearing Messages, California Passes CPRA and Snapchat to Display Subscriber Counts on Creator Profiles.

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Episode 425

This week it’s just the quick hits.

The week’s news quick hits: Apple Not Forced to Put Fortnite in App Store, Triller Considers Going Public, Amazon Held a Record-Breaking Prime Day, Facebook Bans Holocaust Deniers, Twitter and YouTube Follow Facebook’s Actions Banning Certain Content, YouTube Gets Attribution Reporting, Zoom Launches Events Marketplace and Snapchat Launches Sounds on Snapchat.

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Episode 424

This week’s headlines: Instagram Shopping Makes IGTV Debut and Big Tech Monopoly Investigation Findings Revealed.

The week’s news quick hits: Snapchat’s First Commercial Comes Out of Beta, TikTok Second Favorite App for Teens, Facebook Bans QAnon Groups and Pages, Slack Adds Stories, Twitch Dominates Live Stream Views and Facebook to Ban Political Ads Following Election.

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Episode 423

This week’s headlines: Judge Temporarily Blocks TikTok Ban and Instagram Messaging and Messenger Merge.

The week’s news quick hits: LinkedIn Brings Stories to North America, Snapchat Introduces Platform Burst Ad Buy, Antitrust Hearing Underway with Apple and Epic Games, Pinterest Brings More Tools to Mobile Commerce, Amazon Launches Amazon One, Facebook Narrows Attribution Window, Google Commits $1 Billion to Publishers and Senate Issues Subpoenas to Tech CEOs.

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