Mobile

Meta still tracking teens despite claiming it would limit how advertisers can target them: The company is accused of making misleading statements to the public and lawmakers.

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, owns the top four mobile apps worldwide, with WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Facebook, and Instagram seeing the most cumulative downloads between Q1 2014 and Q3 2021.

Social media platforms are racing to attract creators with monetization tools to drive a social commerce wave: Instagram’s new creator subscriptions are a way for the platform to offer money to creators outside of brand deals.

Big Tech was unevenly affected by Apple's privacy changes: Facebook and Snap were hurt by their reliance on off-platform data, Google and Amazon leant on their strong search data, and Twitter's brand marketing focus was its saving grace.

If money were no object when buying consumer tech, many US adults would upgrade their phones and improve their home security.