The software engineers behind Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram are constantly looking to improve the app’s performance. Performance improvements might sound like an exercise in perfection for perfection’s sake, but in fact they can lead to important things — like more u … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: For every yin, there’s a yang; for every positive, a negative; for every login, a logout. Actually, I made that last mantra up — but it’s still true, right? Sadly not. I recently ventured home to visit my parents in a city where the likes of Uber have yet to really take … | Continue reading
LONDON (By Tom Bergin and Michael Holden, Reuters) – Facebook said it would stop booking sales to UK clients via Ireland, a practice which reduced its taxes, following the British government’s introduction of a new tax on profits shifted offshore. In future, Facebook will report … | Continue reading
Remember last year when WhatsApp started blocking links to messaging rival Telegram? Well, Facebook HQ is spreading the love, with Instagram now blocking links to Telegram and Snapchat. | Continue reading
If you’ve ever been to London for a tech tour, you will have seen the offices of the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon, but for tax purposes at least, these companies have long denied they do any real business in the UK. Well, that might all be about to change, as in what appe … | Continue reading
If you were hoping to get more followers on Telegram or Snapchat from your Instagram profile, you may be out of luck.The photo sharing app recently began cracking down on certain types of links in users' profiles, including those that link back to Telegram and Snapchat accounts. … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Facebook released its new interactive, full-screen mobile ad unit called Canvas last week. It gives advertisers an elegant, rich-media way to engage users directly within Facebook’s page. Agencies are already lapping it up and experimenting with it to showcase their pro … | Continue reading
Facebook has teamed up with Spotify to create a new system that makes sharing music a breeze. Or, at least, that’s what they’re trying to do. | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger threads are about to get a lot more musical.Facebook added a new Spotify integration to its messaging platform, the company announced Wednesday. The new feature allows people to share playlists and songs with friends inside of conversations on Messenger.See als … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger has added support for Spotify, allowing you to share your favorite songs and playlists with friends. It’s the first music-based service integration for the messaging platform. This is rolling out today and Facebook said will be “available broadly soon.” When … | Continue reading
First came the Transportation hub with Uber, and now Facebook Messenger is launching “its very first music integration” with Spotify. Inside the Messenger “More” section in chat threads, all iOS and Android users will now find a Spotify option. Tap it, and they’ll be shuttled int … | Continue reading
Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn’t allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million daily active user social network wants to boost kids’ spirits by refocusing around comedy. Today’s iOS and Android update lets users share any … | Continue reading
If you want to make sure you’re the first to hear about Facebook’s latest updates to its developer ecosystem but can’t make it to San Francisco for F8 on April 12, you might want to quickly sign up to attend a live viewing party in your local city. The company says that 70 percen … | Continue reading
Facebook has a very uneasy relationship with regulators in Germany and now the company is being investigated for abusing its power over user data, which may mean it’s breaking local data protection or monopoly laws. “For advertising-financed internet services such as Facebook, us … | Continue reading
Facebook’s data harvesting practices are facing yet another probe in Europe. This time the German federal competition authority is initiating proceedings — rather than it being a European Member State’s national data protection watchdog. Read More | Continue reading
FRANKFURT (By Georgina Prodhan and Harro ten Wolde, Reuters) – Germany’s cartel office has opened an investigation into Facebook for suspected abuse of market power through breaches of data protection law, it said on Wednesday. The watchdog said Facebook’s terms of service regard … | Continue reading
Facebook is tweaking its News Feed algorithm when it comes to what’s live versus recorded. The company announced that with more people consuming Live videos, it’s looking at making this format a “new content type” that’s different from normal videos you upload later. It’s first s … | Continue reading
Facebook has been spending plenty of time on itsLive Video offering — working diligently to better showcase it on both desktop and mobile Web, as well as creating a VR opportunity with its Live 360 Video technology. Today, the company announced via blog post that you’ll likely be … | Continue reading
It looks like Apple isn’t the only tech giant battling against authorities over privacy issues and court orders. Today it emerged that Facebook’s vice president in Latin America, Diego Dzodan, was detailed by police in Brazil in connection with an ongoing investigation involving … | Continue reading
Facebook called the detention of its vice president for Latin America on Tuesday an "extreme and disproportionate measure" stemming from a case in Brazil involving its messaging service Whatsapp, which operates separately from the Facebook platform. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Instagram is one of the few “authentic” social networks. Why? Because it lacks a feature Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all enjoy, but one that makes those platforms open to abuse and bots. Automated posting. Because Instagram doesn’t allow you to create posts through … | Continue reading
Parse – a cloud mobile solution owned by Facebook – recently announced the shutting down of their services as of January 2017. This means three things. Firstly, even the best services might not make it as a business. Parse (i.e. Facebook) has probably lost the war with Amazon and … | Continue reading
Indonesia wants greater scrutiny on the revenues of global Internet companies in the country, so it can figure out if there are taxes owed to it.It wants to look more closely at the earnings of big ad providers like Google. Additionally, it will start requiring other foreign onli … | Continue reading
You can now share videos with your friends within Facebook’s Moments app. The company released an update today for the photo-sharing app today and said that in the coming weeks, it’ll launch an ability to include videos in Moments slideshows. The addition of video support comes a … | Continue reading
Facebook has received a pretty manageable €100,000 admin fine in Germany for failing to properly inform users about its ownership of their images and videos – but the country’s consumer watchdog had some pretty harsh words for the company. “Facebook tried very persistently to cir … | Continue reading
You've probably seen the picture: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg walking down the aisle with a huge satisfied smile on his face as a sea of seated people wearing Samsung Gear VR headsets are completely unaware of his appearance.Many felt the photo was disturbingly Orwellian and a d … | Continue reading
If you’re a WhatsApp user with an older device, I have some bad news for you: your OS may no longer be supported by next year. To summarize, WhatsApp will only be available on Android 2.3+, iOS and Windows phone 8.1+ “by the end of 2016.” In total, it’s ending support for: All B … | Continue reading
GUEST: This week, Facebook rolled out to its 1.55 billion active users a mini-dashboard of new reaction icons designed to make it easier for people to express how they feel about a post in more situationally appropriate ways than a simple “like” could ever do. Perhaps inevitably, … | Continue reading
Now that Facebook Reactions are live for everyone, we share our thoughts on the positives and negatives of the new feature and how it fits into the larger Facebook landscape on this episode of MashTalk.See also: The 6 most important things you need to know about Facebook's Reacti … | Continue reading
WhatsApp is to cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016, the company announced yesterday. With Android and iOS dominating the smartphone realm, and Microsoft’s Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile still clinging on, the Facebook-owned company has revealed i … | Continue reading
Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft are expected to file a joint motion in support of Apple, as the company fights a ruling forcing it to bypass iPhone security. | Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it is finally expanding its live video-streaming tool to Android devices, but only in the U.S. for now. Today’s news comes one month after the social network opened Facebook Live to all iOS users in the U.S., following a short period of limited availab … | Continue reading
After first rolling out to iOS users back in January, Facebook is now getting ready to bring its live video streaming service to Android in an attempt to compete with Periscope. | Continue reading
With Twitter struggling for growth and focus, what better person to ask for advice than the head honcho of a rival social network that’s emerged as one of the world’s most valuable companies in the world? While Jack Dorsey won’t be calling Mark Zuckerberg any time soon, during a … | Continue reading
Facebook is expanding its live-video feature to Android users, the company announced in a blog post today. This rollout is initially for Android users based in the U.S. next week, but “more countries [are] coming soon,” Facebook confirmed. Read More | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg is appearing in Berlin in what he said is his first Q&A livestreamed on Facebook where he has announced that Live Video is coming to Android starting today. “You’ll all have the power to brodcast like a TV in all of your pockets hopefully within the next month,” h … | Continue reading
It looks like Facebook plans to start using ads on their popular Messenger app, and we could see them as early as April. | Continue reading
At the Mountain View Campus of social networking platform Facebook, there’s a longstanding landmark called the signature wall designed to be a visual representation of the growing community at the company. But, according to Gizmodo, it’s also been the site of troubling racial con … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg had strong words for Facebook employees after finding out that someone has been crossing out "Black Lives Matter" on the walls at the company's Menlo Park, California, headquarters.In an internal message shared with employees and obtained by Gizmodo, the CEO descr … | Continue reading
A group of Isis hackers have posted a video online which includes what looks to be a direct threat against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read More | Continue reading
At an event in New York today, Facebook launched its newest product for marketers: interactive mobile ads called Canvas. Facebook needs ads to make money, so getting them right is crucial. Canvas is an evolution of the earlier Carousel ads, which allowed users to swipe through mu … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg just did a live video stream on Facebook (where else) from Berlin where he detailed plans to give 25 high-power GPU servers to European research labs in order to accelerate advances in intelligent computing. The Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Partnership Program star … | Continue reading
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that Facebook will work in lock step with the academics; Facebook will actually giving out 25 powerful servers powere … | Continue reading
Facebook just got a lot more emotionalThe social network rolled out its long awaited redesign of the like button Wednesday, which added five new sentiments you can use to respond to posts in your News FeedSee also: The 10 Facebook reactions we actually neededBut with such a big c … | Continue reading
If the goal of Facebook Reactions was complexity, then Facebook has succeeded in spades. Certainly they deserve a “Like.” Or is it a “Love?”Reactions, which finally rolled out globally on Wednesday, are Facebook's response to a growing desire for more choices than just “Likes” (a … | Continue reading
Instagram has attracted more than 200,000 advertisers, the company announced Wednesday, a clear sign of its potential for significantly contributing to Facebook’s revenue. | Continue reading
The new Facebook reactions are finally here — which means you can respond to someone's status with Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry in addition to the familiar, original LikeIf you're not seeing those options in your News Feed yet, though, we're here to helpOn desktopOn the browser … | Continue reading
After announcing that Facebook users would soon be able to express a wider range of emotions on the platform through emoji, the company is now delivering on that promise by rolling it out to all users. The new ‘Reactions’ give you buttons for ‘Like,’ Love,’ Haha,’ Wow,’ ‘Sad’ or … | Continue reading