Facebook has been aggressively targeting competition in the social video sharing space recently. The social network has lifted many features from Snapchat and implemented them into Instagram and even WhatsApp. Live video filters are just the latest battleground for companies to convince users to stick to their app, and not the cool new competition.
Source : Facebook blocks Prisma’s live video filters – The Verge
Facebook could reach people not even thinking about a job, yet could be convinced to apply for the chance at a higher salary. That’s the same reason Facebook has been able to build giant brand and performance advertising businesses despite Google’s traditional dominance. You might search on Google when you know what you want to buy, or on LinkedIn if you know you want a job, and their ads can help with demand fulfillment. Facebook offers demand generation, drumming up interest people didn’t know they had.
Source : Facebook threatens LinkedIn with job opening features | TechCrunch
« Depuis, on a appris que Facebook venait d’interdire à Admiral d’utiliser ses données pour créer sa police d’assurance automobile sous le prétexte – vertueux – de la protection de la vie privée de ses utilisateurs, rapportent le Telegraph et Wired. Reste à savoir si c’est effectivement la bonne raison. L’année dernière, The Atlantic évoquait un brevet déposé par Facebook lui-même s’accordant le droit de faire ce type de traitement pour des tiers, comme les banques ou assurances ».
Source : Quand les assureurs auront accès au contenu de votre frigo | InternetActu.net
Knowing that Instagrammers are open to discovery on the platform, and that people take time to better understand the products they’re interested in, this test gives our community valuable steps along their shopping journey before they make a purchase.
Source : Shopping Coming to Instagram – Instagram for Business
From Facebook Pages, you’ll now be able to order food through Delivery.com and Slice, request an appointment through MyTime, get a professional services quote, or buy movie and event tickets through Ticketmaster and EventBrite without leaving Facebook.
Source : Facebook embraces utility with food ordering and ticketing | TechCrunch
This is the sixth submarine cable in which Google has an ownership stake — joining the ranks of the Unity, SJC, FASTER, MONET and Tannat projects. We anticipate that PLCN will be operational in 2018.
Source : Google Cloud Platform Blog: New undersea cable expands capacity for Google APAC customers and users
Lancé il y a un an aux États-Unis, Amazon Handmade est un nouveau rayon du géant américain spécialisé dans le fait main et les nouveaux artisanats, qui ont fait le succès d’Etsy ou A Little Market. L’univers débarque en France.La France avait un champion local sur le marché de l’artisanat de petites pièces : le site A Little Market. Ce dernier a été racheté en 2014 par Etsy, le leader mondial en terme d’utilisateurs et de vendeurs. Le modèle de ces sites est simple : répondre à une demande toujours croissante pour les produits singuliers et faits mains mais à l’échelle de marchés globalisés.
Source : Amazon ouvre Handmade en France pour attirer les artisans (et leurs clients) – Business – Numerama
At Facebook, we’ve had an internal version of our app to help run our company for many years.
Today we’re announcing that Workplace will now be available to any company or organization that wants to use it.
Source : Introducing Workplace by Facebook | Facebook Newsroom
With the launch, Facebook will become the latest company to try to beat U.S. classifieds giant Craigslist on mobile phones, where more and more shopping is taking place. Craigslist doesn’t have its own app and its website design is decidedly old school, but it still has the most important feature of a marketplace: Liquidity.
Source : Facebook is taking on Craigslist with its own used goods marketplace – Recode
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