Years have passed since the rumors about the Facebook phone swirled in the cyber world. Today, at last after a long wait, Facebook has introduced the mystical phone at its headquarters. The new phone must sell well to boost the financial status of Facebook. It is the key player in company’s pursuit of mobile ads. [...]
You must have seen them on your Facebook news feed as they are popping up there but with no details. Do you want to know what this red equal-sign is all about that numerous Facebook users have been using as their profile pictures? Well, it is nothing but an initiative of the Human Rights Campaign [...]
Facebook added the feature of making voice calls to its Messenger app on Wednesday. Only the iPhone users who have installed Facebook Messenger on their phone will be able to use this feature. The social networking site first brought this free-to-call feature for their Canadian users only. However, they now rolled it out for their [...]
What else is impossible on Facebook now? People are now using this social media to find out their lost one too! Facebook is the first choice to people for finding a person through a simple search. The site generates millions of results of these searches, which can make people happy especially if they find their [...]
A new study found that people who update their Facebook status frequently feel less lonely. Researchers found that college students who tended to post more updates on Facebook seemed to be less lonely over the course of a week. This feeling persisted even if no one commented or ‘Liked’ their posts. Fenne Deters, the University [...]
It was started just two months ago but ‘Idle No More’, a grassroots movement in essence, has grabbed great media attention through social media presence, rallies and, teach-ins. The aim of this movement is to prevent the Harper government from passing further laws and regulations that will promote erode pact and aboriginal rights and the [...]
This week, police arrested a teen for posting status on Facebook about driving drunk. The 18-year-old teen Jacob Cox-Brown wrote on his Facebook Timeline that he was driving drunk. Though he used a funny emoticon ‘:P’ in his post, two of his Facebook friends took the post seriously. One of them shared that status via [...]
On Thursday, the Pakistani government closed up cell phone service in a number of major cities in order to avert a terror attack. The announcement came during a Shiite religious festival called Ashura. The government took protective steps as the Sunni extremists attacked the Shiite people on such occasions in past times. By citing Pakistani [...]
A recent study revealed that the risks of internet and mobility could be outweighed in case of the UK’s teenage education. The UK’s Oxford University conducted a large-scale study that found that the educational benefits of the internet and mobility could overcome the risks associated with them. The study team randomly picked up more than [...]
Facebook has already become the most popular social network in the world. Now, a new research from Vincenzo Cosenza, a social media analyst, hints that the popularity has been increasing day by day. Cosenza draws a World Map of Social Networks in every six months. His map looks like a deep blue sea, the color [...]
Just a week after Instagram’s withdrawing policy changes, the photo-sharing service lost nearly a quarter of its daily users. Its policy changes angered a lot of users who thought that the site would sell their contents without giving them any compensation. Facebook Inc. bought Instagram for $715 million this year. Last week, the daily active [...]
Instagram Terms of Service Stirs Up Controversy by NewsyVideos Kevin Systrom, the founder of Instagram, said sorry to the users who became enraged over the changed Terms and Service of the site. He said that their intention was not to sell the users’ photos to the advertisers and promised to resolve the issue in the [...]
The Pakistan Taliban had created an account in Facebook for recruiting members who were supposed to edit video and write for a quarterly magazine. However, Facebook has closed that account of the militant group. The page called the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was recruiting members for writing in Ahyah-e-Khilafat, a new quarterly magazine of the militant [...]
Facebook has announced that it is going to start encrypting technology to its North American users and gradually to all users. On Thursday, Shireesh Asthana, Facebook platform engineer, wrote in a blog post that they were moving to HTTPS for all users and would start to roll out HTTPS for all North America users in [...]
Facebook is testing a new feature called ‘photo sync’ to save photos automatically in users’ phone on Facebook account. Facebook began the test a couple of months ago with Android and is now testing with iOS. This app will allow its users to upload the photos taken by their smartphone instantly in the private album [...]
A new research has revealed an interesting fact about the busy modern mothers who are always on the go. The research showed that the busy mothers are now using Facebook more than ever before. They are using the social network platform to stay connected with friends. ‘Mums Now’, a marketing company, has conducted survey on [...]
In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO f Facebook, said that he would likely to join Microsoft if had not found success with the social networking site. He said what he would do if Facebook venture would not pay off and about disspelling rumors regarding the early days of the site. He talked about [...]
As a Facebook user, you may never feel the necessity of filling the ‘About Me’ section. However, this situation may change very soon. Facebook has added a feature lately that tracks the users’ profiles to show the percentage of their completeness. Though users are not compelled to fill the section, doing that will enable Facebook [...]
Social networking site Facebook has recently hired the famous architect Frank Gehry to design the campus extension of its headquarters. On Friday evening, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, uploaded a picture of the architect along with a tiny model of Facebook West. He also wrote about his excitement regarding working with Gehry. According to [...]
Sharing anything on the internet, especially on the social networking sites, means sharing for lifetime that is almost impossible to remove. The same is the case with the vastly popular social networking site Facebook. The pictures, videos, or other things shared on this site can be accessed even if the users have deleted those particular [...]
The US Patent Trademark Office has approved the first patent request of Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of the giant social networking site Facebook. He has filed this patent, which is about the capacity to dynamically generate a privacy summery, about six years ago in 2006. It is a bit ironic that the company’s first patent [...]
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How the effect of the buying of Instagram by Facebook? Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion, but the question arise regarding to the matter, why they do this huge acquisition? Details!!!!! Facebook buys Instagram…but for what? Facebook doesn’t need users, community, or a startup that’s not yet profitable, no matter how hip it is, says [...]
The IPO will raise the Facebook value from $75 up to $100 billion. According to WSJ, Facebook IPO will be announced as early as Wednesday. Details!!!!! Facebook IPO could value it among top companies When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, the social-networking company will likely vault into the ranks [...]
Facebook has been releasing new Timeline. Mark Zuckerberg introduces new Facebook Timeline feature which offers you a visual personal history. It is time for Timeline!!!!! Facebook Timeline’s here: Users have 7 days to edit profiles Love it or hate it, it’s time for Timeline. Facebook’s new look, first shown at a Facebook developers conference here [...]