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Facebook and Disney have partnered up to release a set of Star Wars themed visuals in Messenger for the release of the latest Star Wars film ‘The Rise of Skywalker’.

Snapchat is developing a new fun interactive feature, which will let digital users use their selfies to replace the faces of people in the video template.

With Pinterest Shop, the platform launched a brand new online marketplace for small businesses. Beginning with 17 specially curated brands, it contains hundreds of shoppable Product Pins – just in time for shopping season.

It's a challenging task to impress fans every year with new holiday cup designs, but Starbucks has done it yet again by bringing its four limited-edition cups to life through Instagram, using augmented reality (AR) effects.

Facebook has been spotted testing a feature called ‘Popular Photos’, which basically results in an experience that looks like an Instagram feed.

TikTok is expanding its influence to popular third-party video creation and editing apps with its new TikTok for Developers program.

Starting as an app 15 years ago sprouting from the idea to connect people online, Facebook now offers a suite of products which not only helps people to connect with friends and family but also for people to explore communities and grow their businesses.

The latest digital stats in our 2019 Q4 Global Digital Statshot.

GIPHY Arcade is a new subsection of GIPHY’s online site dedicated to bite-sized games. If you remember the days of Flash games such as Desktop Tower Defense, Red Remover and Bookworm, you’ll find GIPHY Arcade to be a familiar concept to you.

Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, mysteriously blacked-out over the weekend. The outage occurred on Sunday, Oct. 13 at roughly 2pm US Eastern time. Players had logged in to “The End”—a special event Fortnite held to mark the end of its tenth season—where a rocket blew up in the game and plunged everyone into a black hole.

Instagram’s new integrated Dark Mode was officially launched on 9 October 2019 for iOS13 and Android 10. The Dark Mode allows the user to change the background of Instagram to black, allowing the user to scroll through their Instagram feed with ease on their eyes in low light conditions. This could have significant health benefits for users and is one of the app’s most requested for features.

Facebook’s ambitious Live Maps project points to the revolutionary power of AR, writes Arnaud Robin,...