Beta Launch of “Horizon” VR Social Experience by Facebook Horizon is Facebook’s sandbox creation tool for virtual reality experiences, which it wants to broaden while also keeping it social as it enters its next phase of development.

Will Apple Launch a Search Engine to Compete with Google? The signs include Apple hiring more search engineers, making changes to its Spotlight Search mobile engine to bypass Google results, and is beefing up its webcrawling Applebot.

Microsoft and Walmart Team Up in Bid to Acquire TikTok This is a significant move showing how big a deal it is to figure out who is going to take of TikTok in the US. Walmart sees huge e-commerce potential in the acquisition.