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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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 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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iPhone users were facing battery drain issues due to Facebook’s iOS app. Ari Grant, Engineer Manager at Facebook has admitted to the issue and released an update to fix it.
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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 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 has announced that it will now alert users if it strongly suspects that an account is being targeted by a hacker working for a nation state.
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It looks like Facebook wants to bank on one of the important part of the internet ecosystem – videos. The social network is therefore testing a brand new feed that only focuses on videos.
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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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Facebook is bringing a popular feature from Messenger to its main mobile apps. The social network will now let you doodle on your photos that have been uploaded to Facebook.
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Your Facebook profile is about to get a new makeover. The social network is testing a new feature where users can upload a profile video instead of a normal photo as their profiles on Facebook .
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Facebook has re-branded Internet.org as Free Basics. The app and web platform, providing access to over 250 services, is now live in 19 countries including India and will be part of the “larger objectives” of Internet.org.
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After YouTube, now Facebook will begin rolling out 360-degree videos in News Feed starting today. Company says that the users on Web and Android will be able to see 360 videos in their News Feed soon, but the iOS users will receive it in coming months. Continue reading “Facebook brings 360-degree videos to your News Feed”
Instagram has just announced that their fast growing network of users has just exceeded 400 million. That shows the power of photos as Instagram is a social network that uses images to send messages across people all over the world.
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In a bid to lure journalists away from Twitter, Facebook has introduced a news curation tool. Dubbed as Signal, the news gathering tool will allow journalists to discover all the latest social content.
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