Facebook’s Messenger bots may not be having the impact the social network desired. Just yesterday, online retailer Everlane, one of the launch partners for the bot platform, announced it was ditching Messenger for customer notifications and returning to email. Following this, Facebook today announced an upgraded Messenger Platform, which introduces …
Read More »Facebook adds a travel-planning feature called ‘City Guides’
Facebook has been busy with the app updates, as of late. In recent months, it has added new sections for finding nearby Wi-Fi, meeting new people, checking the weather, and more. Now, it’s rolling out yet another addition to the “More” menu inside the Facebook app: City Guides. A potential …
Read More »Facebook’s new “Discover People” feature wants to help you make friends
Facebook is rolling out a new section on mobile called “Discover People,” which encourages users to introduce themselves by updating their profile, then scroll through a list of upcoming events to see who else may also be going, as well as browse through lists of people in their city or who share …
Read More »Facebook Messenger begins testing ads…and they’re big
Facebook today is beginning to test integrating ads into its mobile messaging app’s user interface. The company says it will launch what it characterizes as a “very small test” in Australia and Thailand, which will allow businesses to place an ad on the Messenger home screen. These fairly prominent card-style ads …
Read More »Disabled Man Beaten Up Badly By Group Live on Facebook
Four people have been arrested and are being questioned regarding a Facebook video which shows a disabled man being beaten up badly after tying him to a chair or something else. All the four suspects, among them one was streaming the video live on Facebook, are taken into custody and police is investigating …
Read More »Facebook & Google dominate the list of 2016’s top apps
Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year’s top apps released today by Nielsen. Not surprisingly, Facebook again grabbed the number one spot on the list, with more than 146 million average unique users per month, and 14 percent growth over last year. In fact, …
Read More »Facebook Events app comes to Android
Facebook’s standalone Events app that launched in October on iOS is launching on Android today. The Facebook Events app helps you browse nearby happenings, see the dates of your upcoming Facebook Events as well as imported calendars and aggregates wall posts and alerts from Events to declutter your main app’s …
Read More »Facebook launches parents portal to help folks navigate their kids’ social experience
Facebook, the social networking app used by 1.8 billion people globally, does not provide figures for how much of that audience is comprised of minors — that is, people under the age of 18 (and theoretically over the age of 13). But chances are that these days it’s a significant number, when you consider …
Read More »Facebook Messenger And News Feed Gets Instant Games
Facebook has announced a new feature for its News Feed and Messenger app called Instant Games, which is HTML5 cross platform gaming. On Messenger the new Instant can be accessed through a game controller icon and the games are also available in the Facebook News feed. Instant Games on Messenger, …
Read More »Michelle Obama ‘ape in heels’ Facebook post: Woman ‘to return to work’
Image copyright Getty Images A woman suspended after calling First Lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” in a Facebook post is set to return to work in West Virginia, local media say. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-profit group in Clay County, West Virginia resumes work on …
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