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Facebook takes on Twitter with Venue, a second screen companion for live events

Facebook’s R&D crew, NPE Team, is launching Venue, a new app for enticing fellow lovers round live events. This is the 3rd new app to release this week from Facebook’s inside staff targeted on experimenting with new ideas in social networking. With Venue, the corporate goals to off…
Facebook’s R&D group, NPE Team, is launching Venue, a new app for engaging fellow fans around live events. This is the third new app to launch this week from Facebook’s internal team focused on experimenting with new concepts in social networking. With Venue, the company aims to off…

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  2. "Facebooks internal R&D group, NPE Team, is today launching its next experimental app, called BARS". (February 26, 2021)
  3. "Facebook announced this morning it will begin testing a new experience for discovering businesses in its News Feed in the U.S. When live, users to tap on topics theyre interested in underneath posts and ads in their News Feed in order to explore related content from businesses". (April 15, 2021)
  4. "Following years of backlash over its algorithms and their ability to push people to more extreme content, which Facebook continues to deny, the company today announced it would give its users new tools to more easily switch over to non-algorithmic views of their News Feed". (March 31, 2021)
  5. "Shopify announced this morning its partnered with Facebook to expand its payment option, Shop Pay, to all Shopify merchants selling across both Facebook and Instagram". (February 9, 2021)
  6. "If youre old enough to remember the outrage that followed Twitters decision to replace stars with hearts (aka likes instead of favorites), then you know that Twitters user base has strong feelings about how it wants to engage with tweets". (March 24, 2021)
  7. "A coalition of 35 consumer advocacy groups along with 64 experts in child development have co-signed a letter to Facebook asking the company to reconsider its plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under the age of 13, which Facebook hasconfirmed to be in development". (April 15, 2021)
  8. "Facebooks internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today officially launched its latest app, E.gg, to a broader audience". (November 18, 2020)
  9. "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got called out by Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) for tweeting during todays congressional hearing on disinformation and extremism". (March 26, 2021)
  10. "Facebook this morning announced it will increase the penalties against its rule-breaking Facebook Groups and their members, alongside other changes designed to reduce the visibility of groups potentially harmful content". (March 17, 2021)
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