Not to be outdone by Amazon, Facebook, or any other starry-eyed tech giant, Google is getting into the drone business. Yes, the company just bought purchased Titan Aerospace, which specializes in high-altitude drone satellites, for an undisclosed sum. Sure unsettle privacy advocates everywhere, “Google says [its new fleet of drones] will be used to take photos of the earth and to connect people to the Internet,” The New York Times reports. 

Despite longtime rumors of a branded phone and its recent Oculus investment, Facebook isn’t known for hardware. Yet, as Bloomberg reports, a 170-person interal team is trying to change all that. Presently preoccupied with servers that can handle Facebook’s immense Web traffic, the team has its sights set on the highly competitive consumer electronics market. 

At first glance, Facebook’s latest effort to cut down on spam and low quality posts in users’ News Feeds is a good thing. The effort has its critics, however. “The more Facebook tries to control the News Feed in order to make sure the content in it is ‘high quality’ enough, the more likely it is to irritate users who actually want to see or share the things Facebook defines as spam,” according to GigaOm’s Mathew Ingram. 

Facebook mobile users wishing to send and receive messages will soon have one option: Facebook Messenger. “It’s starting to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send and receive messages in Facebook for iOS and Android,” TechCrunch reports. Put one way, “Facebook is taking its standalone app strategy to a new extreme.” 

Weddings are pricey -- the average Manhattan wedding is nearly $87,000, according to just-released data from TheKnot.com. The average American nuptials cost almost $30,000.) Given that layout, you don't want the memories posted on social media to be tacky. That's why new social media buff-and-shine services have are a growing part of wedding planners' duties. Then W Hotels' five New York area properties upped the ante: They launched a professional social media wedding concierge service that will chart the experience -- from cake tasting to dress fitting to the altar-selfie-taking, via aTwitter, Instagram, Vine, Pinterest. All for $3,000.

 Vine cofounder Colin Kroll announced via Twitter that he is stepping down from as general manager. He cofounded the app that Twitter bought in late 2012. He did not say he would be leaving Twitter, but plans to stay on as a advisor, versus day-to-day duties.

Cuba claims the U.S. continues to use social media to "subvert" the island's government. It says the revelation this of a U.S.-created, Twitter-like service for Cuba was just one of several examples. The U.S. government has admitted it created a social media network called ZunZuneo, but denies it is "covert." The government says it is an attempt to promote the free flow of information in a country where the state controls all the media.

Twitter is set to launch "15 types of new ad products and improved ways to target users over the next six months," according to sources cited by Yoree Koh. For one, "Twitter has been beta-testing a mobile-app install ad unit."

Showing digital developers and data scientists a little love, Facebook just released part of its A/B testing code. PlanOut, so-called, is “focused on helping data scientists easily build and manage experiments while ensuring the results are accurate,” GigaOm reports. “A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a Web or mobile application.” 

Among Facebook Page owners -- including most brands -- competition has never been stiffer for inclusion in users’ News Feeds. “The surplus of content and lack of space forces Facebook into the role of the ‘bad guy’ for filtering the feed in an attempt to show the most relevant posts (plus some ads),” TechCrunch reports. The problem? “So far, Facebook has done a terrible job of communicating how and why it filters the News Feed.” TechCrunch tries to shed some light on the subject.