Facebook kills Creative Labs, shifts innovation strategy

Facebook this week closed its Creative Labs application-incubator division and pulled three experimental Android and iOS apps the team created from Google Play and the Apple App Store. The company will no longer support or update Rooms, a year-old app that lets user anonymously create and join small online communities; Slingshot, an ephemeral, or "disappearing," messaging app; or the group-video app Riff."Since their launches, we've incorporated elements of Slingshot, Riff and Rooms into the Fac