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In the OK Live app for iOS for users became available the virtual mask which you use in live. Such an opportunity was not previously available for streaming in any social network on the iOS platform.

Twitter announced about the launch of the new Explore section, which will take place Moments.

Microsoft has published results for the second quarter of 2017 financial year. In the reporting period, revenue increased by 1.2% in annual comparison to $24,09 billion, profit increased 3.6% to $5.2 billion.

Facebook has announced about the update of the algorithm for ranking videos. In particular, Facebook will now consider such criterion as percent complete.

Team of VK announced that it is now all official VK pages became available the ability to create live broadcasts.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially announced that the former Vice-President Xiaomi Hugo Barra will lead VR-the direction of the company.

Facebook started showing ads on the main screen of the app. The experiment is carried out in a limited scope and includes only a small number of users in Australia and Thailand.

Facebook added a new section of Stories in their applications for iOS and Android – an analogue of Instagram Stories. While it is only available in Ireland, but in the coming months will appear around the world.

Team VK announced that from today, video ads into their news feeds will start to run automatically. Playback of video begins when more than half of the video is displayed on the screen. For advertisers, the system automatically predicting the quality of views and video analytics, including statistics of the views by quartile (25% share in video).

Social network VK made the album with the stored user photos hidden by default. Before this was not possible even in your account settings.