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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Facebook is going to come to Europe with an official visit this month. At the same time, FB stock is experiencing not the best period.Facebook (FB) stock continued to trade lower on Tuesday closing at $207.15 from the previous monthly high of $224. At the time of writing, the price was around $210. This comes as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is preparing for visiting Europe to meet with EU officials in the course of the month.Facebook Stock Price Movements:...

Facebook (FB) stock price is moving higher despite all the noise around the company partially caused by Elon Musk’s negative position toward it.Last few years we are witnessing Facebook getting numerous objections from many sides. It all culminated when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year publicly admitted that the company won’t ever be included in checking the credibility of political parties that are advertising on the social network. Of course, it all was sparked even more when it’s...

Snap’s revenue did not meet analysts’ expectations of $563 million which had a negative impact on SNAP stock price. However, the company managed to increase its daily active user base.Recently, Snapchat’s parent company Snap has published its Q4 2019 earnings. It has turned out the company has not lived up the revenue expectations of Wall Street analysts. As a result, Snap stock has dropped 11%.According to Snap, they have increased the fourth quarter revenue 44% year-over-year to $561...

According to the post by Block.one, company representatives attended the government buildings to discuss the future of Voice. Per the announcement:“In December of 2019, we sat down with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. to discuss our vision and plans for Voice: what it is, what we are trying to achieve, and how the tokens will work.”The company states that it has no right to publish all the related information. However, they will take all the necessary steps...

Twitter’s Bitcoin emoji has been introduced. This has generated lots of excitement within the crypto space. Twitter’s cryptocurrency community has been on fire as the Bitcoin symbol has been trending. However, it could have been rather expectable. Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey has been known to be a Bitcoin fan for many years now. His recent tweet has got a lot of positive feedbacks.#bitcoin cc:@unicode— jack ??? (@jack) February 2, 2020The Bitcoin symbol was approved as a Unicode symbol in 2017....

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Byte, a 6-seconds video-sharing app created by the co-founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann, has been launched on Apple‘s App Store and Google Play. Interestingly, Byte is now among the most downloaded apps in both stores despite the flaws it has. As such, the app could potentially meet its aim to rival ByteDance‘sTikTok, a video sharing platform valued at $75 billion.Byte Launches on Apple and Google StoresOn January 24, 2020, Byte was launched on Apple App Store and Google Play Store.Reportedly, the...

British multinational telecommunications conglomerate Vodafone has quit Facebook‘s Libra Association. Both Vodafone and Libra have already confirmed the information.According to Vodafone, they will use resources intended for Libra to develop its digital payment service M-Pesa. M-Pesa enables customers to send, receive and store money securely via a basic smartphone. Used mostly in Africa, the service enables all businesses to collect payments, make stock purchases and pay salaries. Moreover,...

TikTok is the video app popular among Generation Z ( the demographic cohort succeeding the Millennials, or Generation Y. Demographers and researchers typically use this term speaking about the mid- to late-1990s as starting birth years). The app is best known for its viral dancing and singing challenges, is obviously now a number one entertainment app on Apple‘s App Store for example.But let’s start from the beginning. There are many social media nowadays but few have the chance to get...

Instagram’s Boomerang has received an upgrade. Apart from looping, users of the social networking platform will be able to do a bit more with their videos. The platform has introduced new tools to try to compete with TikTok.The features have been expected by many users. One of the features is the trimming effect. This improves playback control for videos when editing. Other effects include “SlowMo” which reduces playback by 50%, “Echo” which produces blurry playback and “Duo” which produces...