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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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that the company is working on a dislike button for its social network. He dded that the “Dislike” button will not work like Reddit’s up and downvote mechanism.
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It looks like Facebook is planning to bring virtual reality to mobile devices. A latest report from the Wall Street Journal says that the social network is testing a virtual reality video app for mobile.
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With an aim to make it easier for small business to enhance its mobile presence, Facebook has redesigned Pages by introducing new tools for better communication with customers.
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Following a report last month, Facebook has entered into personal digital assistant space with ‘M’. The new feature that will be present inside Messenger, helps users with day to day tasks like online hotel reservations, travel arrangements and so on.
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Facebook Notes has received a makeover as a blogging platform. The latest update allows users to post longer pieces of articles that differentiates from a standard Facebook status update thereby making them look like a blog.
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Facebook has introduced a new tool that allows celebrities and public figures to stream live video to their Facebook fans using the Facebook Mentions app.
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Facebook had announced the testing of the Security Checkup tool in May on handful of users. Today the social network has expanded the feature worldwide.
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Facebook has revealed financial results for Q2, 2015. The social network has recorded $4.04 billion revenues beating analyst expectations of $3.99 billion revenues.
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Facebook owned Oculus has scooped up gesture recognition firm Pebbles Interfaces. The financial terms of the deal are not disclosed but as per the Wall Street Journal, the deal is said to be about $60 million.
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Facebook wants to be something more than just a social network. According to a latest report from BuzzFeed, Facebook is testing a “buy” button inside Pages.
Facebook is said to be working on a virtual assistant for its Messenger platform, as per a latest report from The Information. The virtual assistant is being internally dubbed as “MoneyPenny”.
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The latest Google Maps v4.8.0 brings users the ability to share places directly to Facebook and Messenger. It also brings about a few changes to the UI and a few bug fixes.
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Facebook is testing a new feature that enhances your video viewing experience. The social network’s latest floating video feature will allow users to scroll through their News Feed while letting them watch the video.
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