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Facebook is testing Photo Magic facial recognition feature for Messenger

Facebook is testing Photo Magic, a new facial recognition feature that scans your newly taken photos and notifies you with an option to send them to friends who are in the photos.

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Facebook rolls out Music Stories for better music discovery and sharing

Facebook has introduced a new feature dubbed as Music Stories that enables users to better discover new music or share tracks with their friends.

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Facebook records $4.5B in revenues, hits 1.01DAU, 1.55B MAU in Q3, 2015

Facebook has exceeded analyst estimates and recorded a whopping $4.5B in revenue for Q3, 2015. The social network reported a 41% year-over-year increase in revenues.

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Facebook’s news app Notify tipped to launch next week

In August, it was reported that Facebook will launch a standalone mobile news app. Now, a fresh report from the Financial Times states that the news app will be launched as early as next week and it will be called as ‘Notify’.

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Facebook replaces ‘Other Folder’ with Message Requests for Messenger

In a bid to make it easier for users to talk with other people who are not present in their friend list, Facebook has rolled out Message Requests for Messenger. The feature replaces the ‘Other Folder’ in Messenger that housed messages from strangers.

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Facebook improves notifications on mobile apps, makes them more personal

Facebook has revamped Notifications tab on its mobile apps in order to make them more personal. The latest update replaces the notification tab with Google Now-style cards.

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Facebook improves search feature to include public posts

Facebook has made its search feature more powerful with latest update. The social network has announced Search FYI, an expanded search function that will allow users to find out what the world is saying about a particular topic.

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Facebook’s Instant Articles expands to all iPhone users, coming to Android soon

Facebook’s Instant Articles are now available to all iPhone users following its launch in May this year. The public beta of the feature will be available for Android this week before a broad roll out by the end of the year.

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Facebook is testing ‘Reactions’ button that includes emojis

Last month, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said that social network is working on a ‘dislike’ button. Today, Facebook is testing what is possibly the dislike button but it is calling it as ‘Reactions’.

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