Slingshot

Following Dropbox’s killer post, here is one from Facebook: the social-media giant has had enough of Slingshot (a Snapchat competitor), Riff (video creation app), and Rooms (group messaging app) and is removing them from the App Store. Oh, and it is also shutting down its Creative Labs, a startup-like initiative encouraging employees to design innovative...

Earlier this month, Facebook accidentally launched Slingshot, the company's answer to Snapchat, on the iOS App Store before it was quickly removed. Today however, the app has been officially released for iOS and Android and is available as a free download. For iOS, the app is currently live in the U.S. App Store only but should...

The rumours of Facebook working on a Snapchat competitor have turned out to be true. The social networking giant accidentally launched Slingshot, their answer to Snapchat, on the iOS App Store today before it was quickly removed. Slingshot appears to allow users to share photos, videos, and messages with a single friend or a group of...

According to a new report from the Financial Times, Facebook is developing an app to take on Snapchat after a failed attempt to purchase the popular messaging app for $3 billion last year. The internal development of the new video-messaging app is personally being supervised by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The new app, much like Snapchat,...