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Meta announces Discord-like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that “Community Chats” are coming to Messenger and Facebook Groups. The feature allows large Messenger groups to organize chats into categor
Bumble experiments with group chats, polls and video calls for its new social networking feature, ‘Hive’
Dating app maker Bumble revealed more of its plans to strengthen its social networking features during last week’s Q2 earnings, which saw the company’s shares slump over its lowered finan
WhatsApp to launch ‘Communities’ — more structured group chats with admin controls
Meta is throwing billions of dollars into building out the metaverse as the future of social networking, but in the near term, the tech giant is looking toward the power of messaging to connect users
Meta’s NPE Team launches a new tasks app, Move, for group organization and to-dos
Meta’s internal R&D group known as NPE Team just launched a new social app, Move, designed for both personal and group to-do lists. The app allows people, including individuals or groups org
Coronavirus-related Facebook support groups reach 4.5M in US as misinformation and conspiracies spread
Facebook has already come under fire for hosting groups organizing anti-quarantine protests in response to government lockdowns amid the coronavirus outbreak, and those promoting fake coronavirus cure
New York VC Steve Schlafman has a new gig with Primary Venture Partners
Steve Schlafman has been an East Coast investor for roughly a decade — scouring deals for the Kraft Group ahead of joining Lerer Hippeau as an early employee, then spending more than four years
Facebook launches new tools for Group admins, including free customer service
Facebook’s Groups are one of the social network’s most popular products, with more than 1.4 billion monthly users across tens of millions of active groups. Today, the company is rolling ou
Facebook is launching a new Groups tab and plug-in
Facebook is rolling out a new Groups tab and plugin, announced CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his opening keynote at Facebook’s F8 developer conference this morning. The addition of the new Groups t
Facebook rolls out new tools for group admins, plus badges and profiles for members
Facebook today introduced a good handful of new features for groups on Facebook, with a focus on helping admins better manage and grow their online communities, and helping members better connect with
Facebook shuts down its Snapchat competitor Lifestage and its standalone Groups app
Facebook is paring down its collection of standalone apps. The company’s experimental “teens-only” app Lifestage, designed to counteract Snapchat’s threat, has been pulled from
Crunch Report | SpaceX Launching Secret Spaceplane
Facebook shares data with disaster relief groups, Coursera is valued at $800 million, SpaceX is launching a secret spaceplane and iOS 11 restricts location data. All this on Crunch Report.
Bash For iOS Makes It Easy To Organize Hangouts With Friends
A group of high school friends, now UC Berkeley engineers, have created an app called Bash to make it easier for friends to organize hangouts, meetups and other events. Launching today on the App Stor
Meetup Targets Businesses And Corporations With Launch Of Meetup Pro
Meetup, the popular online service for organizing and joining in groups based around shared interests, is today expanding beyond the consumer crowd for the first time with the debut of a new product
Meetup Gets Into Crowdfunding With Launch Of “Contributions”
Longtime social site for groups <a target="_blank" href="http://www.meetup.com">Meetup</a> has been steadily rolling out new features to its service over the course of the year following <a target="_
The Groups App I Wish Facebook Would Build
About once a week, if not more, I find myself typing these words or something similar on Facebook: “I just PM’d you, check your ‘Other’ inbox.” Or, “sorry, I’m on mobile, I can’t get t
Online Workspace Dispatch.io Becomes Dispatch.cc, Now Focused On Email-Based Collaboration
<a target="_blank" href="https://dispatch.cc/">Dispatch</a>, the NYC-based startup launched out of the TechCrunch NYC 2011 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/22/dispatch-io-hackathon-runner-up-ta
“Ambient Location” Didn’t Work, So Business Networking App Intro Pivots To Mobile Group Management
It’s fair to say that the “ambient location” craze has passed. Several of the mobile apps intent on connecting people with friends and other recommended users nearby are still strugg
Popset Makes Group Photo-Sharing Easy, Export To Facebook Even Easier
<a href="http://www.popset.com/">Popset</a>, a new mobile app from the current Winter 2012 batch of Y Combinator startups, is a way for groups of friends to privately share photos. Oh what, you've hea
GROU.PS Lets You Create Your Own Private Facebook
Social groupware platform GROU.PS just introduced several new features, the most notable of which is a Facebook template called "theBook" that lets you create your own private network with the same lo
Organizing Offline: Zenergo Launches Social Network For Real World Activities
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/102418v2-max-250x250.png" />Who needs another social network? Maybe you, friend. Admittedly, the social networking space is packed with so man