Xiaomi’s former global vice-president Hugo Barra, who had announced his departure from the company earlier this week, will be heading …
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Instagram put a dent in Snapchat by placing its own version of Snapchat Stories atop its feed, and now Facebook …
Read More »Facebook Launches Live 360 Video From NatGeo
Following YouTube’s rollout of 4K 360 live broadcasting, but beating Twitter’s Periscope to the punch, Facebook today announced initial support …
Read More »For Charity Live Videos, Facebook is Adding Donate Buttons
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Read More »Facebook Launches Marketplace, a Friendlier Craigslist
50 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a …
Read More »Facebook Introduces Messenger ‘Lite’ for Android
Facebook has announced a “Lite” version of its Android Messenger app. The new bare-bones Messenger app is designed for older …
Read More »Facebook Chrome Extension Shows Everything That the Site Knows About Its Users
The huge amount of data that Facebook collects on every one of its users has been exposed. And all it …
Read More »How Facebook Is Trying to Save Endangered Languages
The future of a dying language depended on translating the word “poke.” For three weeks, about half a dozen defenders …
Read More »Facebook Officially Launches Canvas Ads That Load Full-Screen Rich Media Pages In-Ap
Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them …
Read More »WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO
Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how …
Read More »Facebook tests real-time comments, telling users when a friend is writing
It’s a small thing but it might affect how you use Facebook; over the past month some users have spotted …
Read More »Facebook Expanding Worldwide Parental Leave to Four Months
Now all global employees will receive four months of paid leave Facebook announced that global employees will receive four months …
Read More »Here’s how to use Facebook’s tool to check if people you know in Paris are safe
Amid the horrifying attacks in Paris on Friday, Facebook has activated its “Safety Check” feature for the area: Facebook Here’s …
Read More »Facebook reportedly launching News-like app ‘Notify’ with media partners next week
Facebook is said to be planning to launch its standalone news app with a list of media partners on board …
Read More »Alphabet and Facebook develop rival secret drone plans
Google and Facebook have significantly expanded their rival plans to develop unmanned aircraft that can provide broadband internet access from …
Read More »Facebook Messenger Wants To BE Your Phone Number With New Message Requests
Phone numbers are dumb. Once someone has yours, you can’t stop them from contacting you. Someone might want you to …
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