Facebook has introduced Music Stories – a new feature focused on giving facebook users a better way to share and discover music on the platform obviously without having to leave it and at the moment, is only available to Facebook iPhone app users. Music stories are 30-seconds preview of songs (or albums) which are curated […]
After getting so much sticks for for violating net neutrality rules especially in India, Facebook has caved in a little by making significant improvements to the Internet.org services and also giving it a new name – ‘Free Basics‘. Facebook has opened up the Internet.org platform to all developers, this means any developer can add their […]
Photo-sharing website, Instagram has announced the platform now has over 400 million monthly active users. This comes less than month after Facebook saw up to 1 Billion users in one single day (on August 28th) and Whatsapp crossed the 900 million monthly active users mark. The important milestone for Instagram was posted on the company’s […]
In a bid to get the same attention journalists give to Twitter when it comes to real-time breaking news and major events; Facebook has announced Signal. The social media giant describes it a free discovery and curation tool for journalists who want to source, gather, and embed newsworthy content from Facebook and Instagram, across news, […]
Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform, Whatsapp has crossed the 900 million monthly active users. The company crossed the 800 million mark almost 4 – 5 months ago (April) but it is unlikely the app will cross the 1 Billion mark before the end of 2015. The new milestone was announced by Whatsapp CEO and co-founder, Jan […]
Last week, Facebook announced the M digital assistant. The Facebook M is only text based at the moment and can be accessed live within the Messenger app making it virtually available to anybody using the app. There is not much difference between what Facebook M (or just ‘M’) does compared to the likes of Cortana, […]
Facebook has announced ‘Live’ Video Broadcast features for celebrities and public figures. The feature is available through Facebook Mentions and only users such as athletes, politicians, musicians, influences and other public figures with verified facebook pages have access to it. Celebrities and Public figures would be able to share Live video with their followers through […]
Facebook has opened a new business office in Johannesburg, South Africa which would mark the company’s first ever on the African Continent. The company would partner with telecom operators, government bodies, agencies and other stake holders to deliver localised content for users and also advertisers. The Facebook Africa office which would serve as a sales […]
To appeal to a wider audience Facebook now let’s signup for Facebook Messenger without a Facebook account. Joining other services like Whatsapp and other similar mobile only messaging apps which let’s you login with your phone number instead. To Signup for Facebook Messenger, Users now have a new option to choose ‘Not on Facebook’ along […]
Facebook has announced a standalone private photo sharing mobile app called Moments; it is already available for on Android and iOS in the US. The app is created by Facebook’s Creative Labs and would roll-out to more countries soon. The basis behind the app is to make sharing photos privately among persons or group of […]