Google Hangouts joins the elite club of apps that has crossed 1 Billion downloads on the Play Store. Till today, there have been ten apps that have crossed the milestone out of which 3 of them were Facebook apps while the other 7 were Google’s own apps.
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Facebook will soon bring a ton of news to your News Feed via Instant Articles, as per The Wall Street Journal. Launched last month, Instant Articles fills a users news feed with articles from a number of popular publishers.
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Starting today, you don’t need a Facebook account or even an email to sign up for the Facebook Messenger. All you need is a phone number. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger no longer requires Facebook account or an email”
Facebook has rolled out a new app that lets you share photos with your friends without posting them online. Dubbed as Moments, the app syncs to your phone’s camera roll and then uses facial recognition and location to group photos and help you share them with friends.
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David Marcus who is the VP of product Messaging at Facebook has posted a photo on Facebook that shows that the Messenger app for Android devices has crossed 1 billion downloads.
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Facebook started testing Facebook Lite, a lighter version of the social network that targets at users from developing countries which have a 2G or a slow internet connection. Today, Facebook has started rolling out Facebook Lite in all the developing countries, especially Asia.
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Facebook has just outed another new feature for its Messenger app. The application now allows users to send their location as a message to their friends and family.
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Facebook is making it easier for its users to recognize an unknown sender who is messaging for the first time on Facebook Messenger, as per a report from Tech Crunch. The social network is launching the new feature on Messenger that will let you know more about other non-friend users.
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The video calling feature for Facebook’s Messenger was announced at the end of last month but was limited to just 18 countries. Now the feature is available to users using the application worldwide.
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It might not be long when you could play games in Facebook Messenger. According to a report from The Information, Facebook is in talks with several developers to make games for Messenger.
Facebook has rolled out Instant Articles that will allow a number of publishers to post their articles directly to the social networks iOS app. The social network has tied up with publishers like The New York Times, National Geographic, BuzzFeed, NBC and The Atlantic; the UK’s The Guardian and BBC News, and Germany’s Spiegel and Bild.
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Facebook is testing an internal search engine for its mobile app, according to a report from Tech Crunch. The move comes from the social network in a bid to boost the amount of links its users share .
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Axis bank is the now going social and making it easy for users to transfer money to their loved ones on the go. The third largest bank in India will now allow its customers to send money through several platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, email and SMS, through mobile-based application Ping Pay.
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Facebook has partnered with Nokia to bring HERE Maps to its mobile version of its site, as well as Facebook Messenger and Instagram on Android, as per a report from Tech Crunch.
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Facebook launched Internet.org in order to bring connectivity to mobile users in the developing countries like India. Today, the social network has opened the Internet.org platform to developers.
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