Here s what s going on in tech on Friday…
–The battle between Facebook and ad blockers who want to block Facebook s anti-ad-blocking software goes on, as Facebook rolls out a new code to block the latest workaround to Facebook s blocking of ad-blockers. Everything s clear now, right?
–Ten former Twitter employees shed some light on the company s efforts to stop harassment on the site. Twitter says there were many inaccuracies in the Buzzfeed report.
—Media companies are apparently flocking to the new Instagram Stories feature for putting out content, and they are getting solid audiences from the service.
–How big could Apple s App Store be by 2020? Pretty big. Pretty big.
—Microsoft has acquired live-streaming service Beam, which lets people watch videogame streamers, and join in on the action, too.
–When was the last time you really thought about Silicon Graphics? Well, its shares are up almost 29 percent today in the wake of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise saying it would buy the company for $275 million.
–Hulu is shutting down its free video-streaming service, but is there a chance that the company could be making a big mistake in doing so?
–And more from the internet TV front…Amazon is making a 13-episode docu-series about the history of Playboy and Hugh Hefner.
Photo: Facebook logo and Apple iPhone displaying the Facebook app s splash screen. Facebook has begun letting marketing messages slip past ad-blocking software on desktop computers. (AFP/Karen Bleier/Getty Images).
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