Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, all the headlines from Facebook's F8 refresh conference.

EZ buys a used clothes marketplace, another ransomware attack shuts down a major player

in a vital industry, and this time it's literally in the meat space and you can start trading

doge coins on coin base tomorrow.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So Facebook's F8 developer conference kicked off

today after taking last year off due to the pandemic of course. Mark

Zuckerberg didn't do a real proper keynote just a few minute long video message

saying Facebook was going back to its roots, i.e. focusing on developers, quote,

some of the most important services in the world started when someone looked at an existing issue

and found a better way to build and I'm optimistic that some of the next generation of services

are going to start right here with you, Zuckerberg said. Well that mostly meant messaging at least so far today and specifically business

messaging Facebook said it will open up the messenger API for

Instagram to all businesses quoting Tech Crunch. The feature is opening first to all

developers globally with a phased approach for businesses. Phase one will

see Instagram accounts with follow accounts of over 10,000 and under 100,000 connect to the AP. with in July, which is phase two, with remaining accounts coming online by Q3.

The feature was first announced as a closed beta in October with select businesses, 30 developers

and 700 brands in all.

Now any brand or organization using Instagram to interact with customers can use it.

The key point with this tool is that this integration represents a significant step forward

in how companies can leverage the wider

Facebook platform. In the past a brand that wanted to interact with customers

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