PHOTO-SHARING APPS UNDER FIRE FOR TAGGING PEOPLE IN PICTURES

While the practice of photobombing has become a social and cultural phenomenon lately, the practice itself isn’t anything new. Since the advent of the camera, people have either intentionally tried to appear in someone else’s photos or have accidentally stumbled into the frame. Now, with biometric facial recognition algorithms, companies like Google, Apple and Facebook are able to … Read more

FACEBOOK LAUNCHES DISCOVER FEATURE FOR GROUPS

Facebook announced during its earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2015 and the full year that more than 1 billion people use groups each month, and the social network is testing steps to make those groups easier to find. UPDATE: Facebook confirmed in an email to SocialTimes Thursday afternoon that its new Discover tool for groups … Read more

INSTAGRAM BUSINESS PROFILES TEST NOW FEATURES ANALYTICS

If Instagram is going to introduce profiles for businesses, the next logical step is analytics for those profiles. Instagram scheduling tool Later shared the iOS screenshots below in a blog post, and it offered details on the available information to profiles with access to these features. According to Later, Instagram business profiles now feature a chart … Read more