Facebook has today launched strike three against Camp Snapchat with Slingshot. As with many of Facebook’s recent products (like Paper), Slingshot is an already-proven idea dressed up in an expensive ...

The growth of Snapchat must be killing Mark Zuckerberg. After trying and failing to build a Snapchat-killer last year (the ill-fated Facebook Poke, since buried), Zuckerberg offered $3 billion for the ...

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Facebook moved private messages into a separate app and released several smaller-scale experiments such as Slingshot and Rooms. Dropbox released an app for photo sharing called Carousel, and ...

Last Monday, the accidental launch of Facebook’s newest app gave users a sneak peek into Slingshot — which appeared from photos to be an extension of its previous ephemeral messaging app, Poke. On ...