Social Media: This Week’s Top Stories // November 8, 2015

Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team | Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues | Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The E-Commerce Startup Restructures | Facebook No Longer Counts Third-Party Apps And Still Has 1.55 Billion Users | Twitter SVP Of Engineering On His Comments About Diversity: “I Did A Poor Job Communicating” | Lytro Introduces ‘Immerge’ For Cinematic Virtual Reality | Facebook Hits 8 Billion Daily Video Views, Doubling From 4 Billion In April |

SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK IN REVIEW SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Drew Olanoff Google Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over... Read More… Megan Rose Dickey Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley Leaves Company Because Of Diversity Issues Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, one of the few black engineers in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Reminder: Get Your Discounted Student Tickets To Disrupt London Disrupt London 2015 is fast approaching, and we still have some student tickets available for the show available at the hugely discounted price of just £100 plus VAT. those who graduated in the spring of 2015 (May-June 2015) can get in on the action. To get your discounted Disrupt student tickets, just send an email to students@techcrunch.com for more info. Learn More… Matthew Lynley Layoffs Hit Gumroad As The E-Commerce Startup Restructures San Francisco startup Gumroad, which lets people sell products directly to consumers by way of quick and simple links, has been in the process of laying off... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook No Longer Counts Third-Party Apps And Still Has 1.55 Billion Users Some say Facebook inflates its monthly active user count by including people who shared from or used a Facebook-connected third-party app. But today Facebook... Read More… Megan Rose Dickey Twitter SVP Of Engineering On His Comments About Diversity: “I Did A Poor Job Communicating” Twitter SVP of Engineering Alex Roetter had been relatively silent in the hours and days following Leslie Miley's post about leaving Twitter due to concerns... Read More… Drew Olanoff Lytro Introduces ‘Immerge’ For Cinematic Virtual Reality Camera maker Lytro is hopping into virtual reality. Today, it announced a product called “Immerge” which the company describes as... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook Hits 8 Billion Daily Video Views, Doubling From 4 Billion In April Facebook video viewership is growing by leaps and bounds. It now sees 8 billion average daily video views from 500 million users. That’s up from just 4... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service