With new financing, Durham social media startup SpokeHub reviving the chat room
A new version of Durham-based chat and social media app SpokeHub launches this week, buoyed by investment cash.
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Triangle-grown social media: The story behind Durham’s SpokeHub and its five African American founders
Through a series of new updates, the founders of SpokeHub seek to join the ranks of social media giants. “It’s going to change the way people are going to communicate,” says co-founder Robert Hartsfield.
Read More‘Messenger Kids:’ Facebook unveils new messaging app for parents, children
Facebook is rolling out a new messaging app that will make it easier for you and your children to communicate. The new messaging app will be for children 6 to 12 and does not require a Facebook account. Federal laws require users to be 13 years old or older to sign up for Facebook, The Verge reported. For Messenger Kids, families can control who their child can contact. Facebook released a preview of the app Monday with a limited rollout. You can watch a video recap from Cnet at YouTube. “There are no ads in Messenger Kids and your child’s information...
Read MoreMore shoppers want to ‘buy black’ this holiday season
Black shoppers are attempting to increase sales of black-owned retailers who often go overlooked this holiday season, specifically in the beauty industry.
Read MoreCloud-based marketing startup iValu8 aims to deliver customer connections
iValu8 Inc., a cloud-based marketing platform, is trying to solve the problem of how businesses can better connect with their customers. The Chapel Hill-based company is using loyalty programs along with mobile, social and venue marketing to improve company-customer relationships. iValu8 specifically wants to help the smaller businesses that previously wouldn’t have been able to afford digital technology. “Part of the reason we developed this business was huge companies could do mobile and social marketing,” said co-founder and Vice President Andrew L. Fox, regarding the company founded in 2013. “The vision was smaller companies couldn’t do it because they...
Read MoreDid you ‘like’ Russian propaganda? Facebook will clue you in
Facebook says it will show users if they followed or ‘liked’ Russian propaganda accounts on its service or on Instagram. The company said Wednesday it will launch a portal to let people see which accounts of the Internet Research Agency they followed between January 2015 and August 2017. The tool will be available by the end of the year. But it won’t show users if they merely saw — or even “liked” — posts from those pages. Facebook, Google and Twitter testified before Congress this month, acknowledging that agents tied to the Russian government used their platforms to try...
Read MoreFacebook steps up fake news fight with ‘Related Articles’
Facebook is continuing its quest to crack down on fake news. The social network on Thursday began rolling out “Related Articles” that provide additional perspectives and information on stories shared on News Feeds. These articles will appear below the link for topics many users are talking about on Facebook. They will also include articles fact-checked by third-party sites such as Snopes and PolitiFact, which employ editors. Related stories intend to help users think twice about whether a story is true. Last year, Facebook was widely criticized for letting fake news stories go viral during the U.S. presidential election. Since...
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European employers must warn job applicants before checking them out on Facebook
European officials have issued new guidelines that warn bosses about the legal hazards of scrolling through the social media profiles of potential hires.
Read MoreArchive Social Hits the Jackpot of All Clients: President Obama and The White House
The White House wasn’t necessarily on the list of potential customers when Archive Social started up in Durham four years ago. Though the startup was building a social media archiving tool it thought was superior to every other option out there for cities and governments, it seemed hard to believe that the President of the United States might use its services. But that was before a social media archive became an important tool for preserving the Obama administration’s legacy for decades to come, and before the president’s social media team made headlines for plans to make that archive available to the public....
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