Gadgetory

Facebook is turning into a mobile mall I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update in Facebook's never-ending quest to swallow up the internet it now wants to become a main shopping page for retail stores you've heard of Facebook testing a Buy button on advertisements but this latest test is taking things to a whole new level turning a store's Facebook page into a full online shop first reported by BuzzFeed this mockup photo shows what this page could look like but these facebook storefronts are in a limited test right now so you may not see it but Facebook isn't the first here it's following a trend of other social media sites like Pinterest Instagram and Twitter that are also building virtual retail shops inside of their networks in other news the sometimes controversial anonymous network Yik yak is in following the shopping trend rather it's adding photos but everything on Yik yak is anonymous so to keep it that way people will not be able to post photos of their faces photos have to go through a moderator approval before they're published which also prevents people from posting anything nasty or illegal if you've never heard of yak yak it's a location-based message board app where you can see messages from everyone within a mile of your location but you don't see any names and it's that system that is made it popular with college campuses where people can post about their interests invite people to events or even alert people of something urgent going on nearby all without identification but the anonymous nature means you'll find lots of adult language so consider yourself warned moving on to gadget news misfit activity trackers have all dropped in price and there's a new cheap twenty dollar tracker added to the family with misfit you really have two main models there's the shine which is a more upscale design of brushed metal that's now seventy dollars and there's the flash it does the same things but it's a plastic design now sold for thirty dollars if you don't care about the wristband and you wanted to choose it as a clip-on there's now the flash link for twenty dollars also plastic and what's cool about both plastic flash models is that they do more than just track activity they our clicker buttons that can be programmed as a remote for different things click to take a photo with your smartphone camera for a cool selfie or use it as a clicker in a meeting presentation to move to the next slide or click to change songs as a music remote and looking ahead Motorola is teasing it'll have some new phones to show off at an event later this month in the invitation it plays off the XOXO hugs and kisses but it looks like it's xgx possibly hinting at new versions of the Moto X and moto G smartphones that's it for this tech news update there's always more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey