Earlier this year at the F8 2019, Facebook introduced several new features to its platform including ‘FB5’, a fresh new design which is simpler, faster and more immersive than ever before. On similar lines, according to a new report, Facebook is reportedly testing a dark mode for mobile and is said to be in an early stage of development.
Facebook has been bringing changes and introducing new features to WhatsApp and Instagram post acquiring it. In similar lines, Facebook is all set to rebrand its popular IM apps and add its name and has in fact begun adding to some screens.
The US Federal Trade Commission has fined Facebook a whopping $US 5 billion for violating a 2012 FTC order on consumers’ privacy. It is is the largest ever imposed on any company for privacy violations and almost 20 times greater than the largest privacy or data security penalty ever imposed worldwide.
Facebook just announced its plans to launch Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology in 2020. It will be available as a standalone app and also support payments in Messenger and WhatsApp. Facebook subsidiary Calibra digital wallet will let you send Libra to others using an app instantly. It will eventually introduce several services such as paying bills instantly, scan a code to buy things and use it to pay for local public transit.
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When it comes to business, good and thorough market research helps the company to build a sustainable business. According to the recent development, Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program called “Study” exclusive to the Android platform at present. Continue reading “Facebook’s new Study program will pay you in exchange for your data: Everything you need to know”
According to fresh reports, Facebook is said to launch its cryptocurrency in 12 countries next year. It has been referred to internally as ‘GlobalCoin’, and the company plans to start testing its cryptocurrency by end of this year finally set up a digital payments system in the first quarter of 2020.
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Facebook-owned Instagram, last year, launched IGTV standalone application for watching long-form, vertical video from your favorite Instagram creators within the Instagram app. Now, Instagram is bringing changes to IGTV as it adds support for landscape videos alongside vertical videos.
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Instagram already has an option to automatically share story to your Facebook story. Now WhatsApp is said to be testing “Add to Facebook Story” feature to share WhatsApp Status with images, videos, GIFs and text to Facebook Story. Unlike Instagram, this is not automatic, and has to be shared manually.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been getting new features recently like new privacy settings, Business catalog, Checkpoint TipLine and more. Now, at the ongoing Facebook Marketing Summit (FMS) 2019, Facebook has announced that WhatsApp will be getting Status Ads in 2020 and will bring changes to Business and product catalog.
Instagram on Thursday said that it will block search results for hashtags that return false information to discourage people from getting vaccinated. Facebook-owned, Instagram announced this at an event for press in San Francisco. Continue reading “Instagram to block hashtags from search related to anti-vaccination misinformation”
Facebook launched its group video chat app ‘Bonfire’ in 2017. It was a clone of the group video chat app ‘Houseparty’ and today, Facebook has announced that it will be shutting down the Bonfire app as it did not receive the interest the company expected.
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At day 1 of Facebook F8 2019, Facebook announced a lot of new features and changes to its popular social media platforms i.e., Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, etc and the company opened the two-day event with a keynote on how they are building a more privacy-focused social platform.
At the Facebook F8 annual conference 2019, Facebook introduced new design and feature to its platform including a new redesign, WhatsApp support on Facebook’s Portal, Dark Mode and more. Alongside, Facebook has also introduced new features and brought design changes to Instagram.
In recent days, various reports have been emerging on brands like Amazon, Microsoft working on various products with their voice assistant built in. While Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana has been present for years now, we haven’t seen voice assistants from social media companies like Facebook, Twitter become popular among consumers. But, looks like it is going to change as a new report suggests that Facebook is said to be working on its own AI voice assistant to rival the offerings in the market.
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What else do you do when you need to pass the time on the Internet? Apart from videos and movies, one of the logical answers could be gaming. There are numerous websites available with a huge collection of online games. Continue reading “Facebook rolls out dedicated gaming section to find and connect around games”
