Articles tagged "Facebook"

A panel of US House of Representatives established earlier today that four major technology companies are abusing their market power to destroy rivals and force small businesses to their knees in the name of profit. According to the antitrust...

More than a year ago, Facebook announced its plans to merge Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger chats into one app and early signs of this effort and with the most recent update, Instagram's DMs are getting a major overhaul. Reportedly iOS and...

Facebook is adding official music videos to its platform, starting this weekend. The launch is exclusive to the US and comes in partnership with major companies like Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and smaller...

Facebook has added yet another new feature to Messenger in its quest to make the app the Zoom for most people - so to speak. We're talking, of course, about screen sharing. This is currently in the process of going live in the Facebook Messenger...

We saw an early glimpse into Dark mode for the Facebook app earlier this month on an Android device, but now some users are reporting getting an update with dark mode on iOS. Facebook has revealed that "a small percentage of users globally" are...

Facebook-related apps have been getting Dark modes for a while now, with Messenger having it since March 2019, Instagram joining last Fall, and Whatsapp making it official a couple of months ago. Still, the closest you can get to a Dark mode on...

Facebook announced a new feature today that's all about making your profile not stand out for the wrong reasons, say when you're looking for a job and a possible employer looks you up. Manage Activity is the name, bulk deletion and hiding of past...

Facebook just announced that it's acquiring the popular GIF-sharing platform, Giphy. Reportedly, the deal cost Facebook $400 million and its plan is to integrate the Giphy library in Instagram and other Facebook-owned services. The...

Throughout all the social distancing (and isolation) we've seen because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has emerged as a household name, whereas before it was probably best known by some people for being the video conferencing tool at work. As more...

Facebook has a new app called Discover, and its part of a new “Free Basics Initiative” that offers wireless subscribers a free, but limited, amount of data per day. This data can only be used for “low-bandwidth traffic data”, mostly browsing on...

The rumors were correct, Facebook is indeed upping the maximum limit of people allowed to participate in a group audio or video call on WhatsApp. The current limit is 4, but this will "soon" double to 8 for everyone, the company revealed today....

Today Facebook has unveiled its response to the crazy growth of Zoom over the past few weeks of the COVID-19 related lockdowns happening pretty much worldwide. Facebook Messenger already had video chat functionality, but it was limited both in...

Facebook’s been improving its Messenger app at rapid pace lately. Recently it got Facebook Pay integration and before that speed and footprint improvements. Now the company has released an update for the children-friendly Messenger Kids app,...

Facebook has announced it has invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms, part of the wider portfolio of the Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries. According to a blog post by the social media, the major reason behind the deal that made Facebook the...

In today’s world of social distancing, communicating with people for leisure or work often requires some sort of video conference calls. Microsoft and Google have their own platforms for that purpose, but WhatsApp wants to join the game too. The...

As more and more people are either working from home or just looking for at-home entertainment, Europe's Internet infrastructure is buckling. So, the EU is calling on video streaming providers to reduce bandwidth usage and Facebook and Disney+ are...

Facebook has rebuilt the Messenger app for iOS from the ground up. The company has been working on a rewrite of the code since last year, and it called this Project LightSpeed. That tells you what the primary driver has been: to make the app...

Smartphone UIs have been getting increasing darker over the past couple of years, culminating with the arrival of a system-wide dark mode with Android 10 and iOS 13. A lot of the major apps had the option for a dark theme before that, but even...

Remember when Facebook started tagging you on photos back in 2011? That was the year the company started testing its facial recognition software but without anyone's consent. Shortly after, a case against Facebook was set in motion and the legal...

The latest Brand Finance Global 500 report is out and for the third year in a row Amazon tops the chart as the most valuable brand, its worth estimated at $220.7 billion. This is also the first time a company has surpassed the $200 billion mark and...