{"id":154233,"date":"2019-08-06T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=252100"},"modified":"2019-08-06T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T06:08:51","slug":"facebook-puts-its-stamp-on-instagram-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/06\/facebook-puts-its-stamp-on-instagram-whatsapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook puts its stamp on Instagram, WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tFacebook sought to make its ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp more apparent by adding its name to their titles in Apple\u2019s App Store and Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>Both apps will have the phrase \u201cfrom Facebook\u201d added to the end of their titles. In a statement to The Information, Facebook said the shift was part of an effort to make clear which products and services are a part of its company. The social media giant acquired Instagram in 2012, and followed up with the purchase of WhatsApp in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The shift comes months after app analyst Jane Manchun Wong spotted the tech giant testing the new branding in March.<\/p>\n<p>Critics noted the strategy could backfire, since Facebook\u2019s popularity has waned [1] following multiple data breaches and\u00a0questions about user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hit Facebook with a record $5 billion fine for privacy violations [2].<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal last week reported the FTC is now looking into whether Facebook purchased Instagram and WhatsApp to stifle competition with its platform.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/facebook-tops-list-of-abandoned-apps\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/top-three\/facebook-pledges-change-after-5b-ftc-fine\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook sought to make its ownership of Instagram and WhatsApp more apparent by adding its &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/facebook-puts-its-stamp-on-instagram-whatsapp\/\">Facebook puts its stamp on Instagram, WhatsApp<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/06\/facebook-puts-its-stamp-on-instagram-whatsapp\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2162,2208,2,2047,2070,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-E7D","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}