Articles tagged "Facebook"

Pew Research Center has just published its data over Facebook usage habits in the United States. According to the research team, 26% of users deleted the Facebook app from the phone in the past 12 months. The percentage of people who adjusted their...

Today Instagram has announced three new security-oriented features, in light of its recent account hacking scandal. First off, an About This Account option will be available on every profile (once you tap on the three-dot menu). This will tell...

The scandal with Cambridge Analytica might have been bad for the popularity of Facebook, but shareholders should have to start worrying, because the social network is on track to lose its top spot to YouTube in the United States, according to...

Facebook and Instagram launched tools that let you monitor your activity on their networks. Available as an option in the Settings menu and currently rolling out to all global users it might take some time for the tool to reach...

Tuesday, reports surfaced that the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s office has issued a fine to Facebook for $664,000 or about GBP 500,000. The office finds that Facebook lacked the privacy protections necessary to catch Cambridge...

Facebook seemingly took a look at its Messenger and decided it didn't contain enough stuff already. Hence, the company is adding autoplay video ads to the chat app. The rollout has started already, but as usual it may be a while before you see...

Facebook has launched a new feature dubbed Memories. It lets you access all memories/moments/life events that you shared on the social network from a single place. The company says there can be several sections on your Memories page,...

Facebook has been under fire recently for giving data third-party apps, allegedly without user’s consent. After an investigation by The New York Times, it was discovered the social media gave deep access to all major smartphone makers. Latest...

Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came to life yesterday, and a couple of US tech giants are already being accused of breaking the law. Non-profit noyb.eu has filed a complaint against Google, Facebook, as well as WhatsApp and...

Yesterday Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg ordered a huge structural change in the company's management staff in order to make room for a new blockchain division. Fortunately for Facebook's staff, no firings were made. With two of WhatsApp's...

As Facebook piled on new features over the past couple of years, it became a bloated mess and it is often frustrating to navigate or find a specific feature. At the F8 Facebook Developer Conference, Facebook announced an update to Messenger that...

Today is F8 (pronounced “eff eight”), which is Facebook’s annual developer conference where Instagram has just announced a bunch of new features coming to the platform. There’s a bunch to cover so let’s get into it. Not long ago, we saw further...

Last night, there were reports that Facebook Messages from Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives sent to users were mysteriously gone. Users don’t have to ability to delete sent messages, but those at the top of the platform did so anyway,...

A couple of weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg made a statement following the realization that Facebook's platform was used to influence the outcome of the 2016 United States election. Today, Facebook offers a more specific look at how exactly it is...

In case you missed what's going on with Facebook, here's the low down. A data mining and analytics firm called Cambridge Analytica took Facebook user data and misused it in violation of Facebook's terms and guidelines. This misuse of data played a...

The Facebook Lite app for Android has amassed more than 200 million users since its launch in 2015. It was created to provide a better experience on lower-end devices with slow data connections in developing markets, just like Messenger Lite. And...

Facebook introduced 3D posts earlier, but today the social network is rolling out gITF 2.0 compliance to support high-quality 3D content. The biggest beneficent are owners of Xperia smartphones with Android Oreo and 3D Creator app, who get easy...

Facebook's modified Messenger Kids app is now available on Android, having been already available on iOS and Amazon Fire tablets. The application is aimed at 6- to 12-year old children and lacks in-app purchases or Hide options so that parents can...

The ongoing Facebook content debate has been a rather messy and multi-faceted one, with plenty of implications and potential social repercussions extending far beyond the website itself. Regardless of whether we approve or not, Facebook has...

Amit Fulay, who was Head of Product for Real Time Communications at Google, has left the company. Fulay announced the development on Twitter, revealing he has joined Facebook. Today is my first day at Facebook - accepted their friend request :)...