Facebook has launched Flash, a Snapchat style camera app that is aimed at emerging markets. Currently available only in Brazil, Flash allows you to add filters, masks, emojis, doodles and other such avataars to photos. Continue reading “Facebook Flash is a Snapchat clone designed for developing countries”
The popular artsy Prisma filters are now coming to Facebook Live video. The latest feature comes a month after Facebook showcased AI powered filters for live video.
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Facebook has announced financial results for Q3, 2016. The social network has reported revenue of $7.1 billion, up 56% YoY while net income was $2.4 billion. Continue reading “Facebook reports $7.1 billion in revenue, crosses 1B mobile only MAU in Q3, 2016”
India has now become Facebook’s second largest market, according to Adam Mosseri, VP, Product Management at Facebook. The social network has crossed 155 million monthly active users in India. Continue reading “Facebook claims India has over 155 million monthly active users”
Facebook has always been focused on videos as over 100 million hours of videos are consumed daily on the platform. Now, the social network has rolled out the ability to stream videos from Facebook to your TV. Continue reading “You can now stream Facebook videos on your TV”
Facebook was testing Facebook at Work for over a year with than 1,000 organizations around the world. Today, the social network has officially launched the tool for enterprise customers and it is dubbed as Workplace.
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Facebook has released a new ‘Events from Facebook’ app for users to discover nearby events through a streamlined channel. Continue reading “Facebook introduces standalone Events app for iOS, Android app coming soon”
Facebook started testing end-to-end encryption for Messenger in July on select group of users. Now, the social network has rolled out end-to-end encryption for its over 1 billion Messenger users.
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In a bid to allow users to discover, buy and sell items locally, Facebook has launched its Marketplace. The feature will appear as a “shop” icon at the bottom of the Facebook app and will allow users to list or search for items on sale in their community.
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Facebook has launched Messenger Lite app on Android for emerging markets such as Kenya, Tunisia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Venezuela. The Messenger Lite uses less data and is designed to work in areas with slower internet connections.
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Facebook is taking a cue from Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories and testing a new feature for Messenger. Dubbed as Messenger Day, the feature lets users upload photos and videos, with filters and doodle on them. You can create slideshow of these photos and videos which will disappear in 24 hours. Continue reading “Facebook tests Snapchat Stories style feature for Messenger”
Facebook had killed a number of apps like Rooms, Slingshot and others in December last year that had failed to gain any traction. However, it looks like the social network is planning to bring back Rooms in form of a feature to the Messenger.
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Facebook has started rolling out a new ‘Instant Video’ feature to Messenger that essentially combines chatting with real time video sharing. Continue reading “Facebook Messenger rolls out new ‘Instant Video’ feature and it’s a mix of video with chat”
Facebook has announced that it will stop writing descriptions for Trending topics and short story summaries. The title will now be automated using algorithm. Trending lets people discover interesting and relevant conversations happening on Facebook. According to Quartz, Facebook has fired entire editorial staff on the Trending team that had 15-18 workers. Facebook says that there are still people involved to ensure that the topics that appear in Trending remain high-quality. Continue reading “Facebook trending topics headlines will now be automated”
WhatsApp has announced that it is tweaking its privacy policy for the first time since it was acquired by Facebook. With changes in policy, businesses can send messages directly to people using the platform.
Continue reading “WhatsApp tweaks privacy policy, will share user data with Facebook”
