Category: Facebook
Facebook Releases Their Second Government Requests Report, Detailing July To Dec 2013
In the past week we have seen Facebook release their second global Government requests report – showing the number of requests per country from Government Authorities, how many accounts were involved, and how many pieces of content were removed – reflecting data over the period of July 1 – December 31, 2013. Facebook have posted […]
Read More | ShareWhatsApp Sets The Record Straight – Your Data Is Secure And Separate From Facebook
Lately there has been a lot of speculation about WhatsApp after their acquisition by Facebook for $19 Billion USD. Particularly concern using data, security and how information will be shared with Facebook. WhatsApp Co-Founder and CEO Jan Koum posted a new blog post – “Setting the Record Straight” in which he details his thoughts and […]
Read More | ShareFacebook To Host Their First F8 Developer Conference In 3 Years
Ilya Sukhar, Facebook Product Manager announced at SXSW today that Facebook will hold their first F8 Developer Conference in 3 years, on this April 30th at in San Francisco. It is expected over 1500 developers will attend the conference. I suspect we will see a keynote presentation by Mark Zuckerberg, yet to be announced. You […]
Read More | ShareFacebook To Acquire WhatsApp
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook will be acquiring WhatsApp. The deal is worth a combined USD $16 billion – $4 billion in cash and approximately $12 billion worth of Facebook shares. The WhatsApp service is currently used by over 450 Million people, with 1 million new users signing up everyday. Post by Mark Zuckerberg.
Read More | ShareFacebook Celebrates 10th Birthday – A Look Back Over The Past 10 Years
On the 4th of February, 2004 – TheFacebook went live to college students at Harvard University. Today, over 1.2 billion people from all around the world use Facebook to connect with family, friends and organisations. Let’s have a look back at Facebook over the past 10 years and their major milestones. Feb 2004 – Service […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Introduces Trending Public Topics
Facebook have announced the release of a new product – Trending public topics that show up in your newsfeed, in many ways similar to Twitter. Specifically the Trending Topics show up to the right of your newsfeed like the following screenshot: Users can then click on the Trending Topic of choice and it will show […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Announces Retirement of ‘Sponsored Stories’
Facebook has announced that soon Sponsored Stories will be removed as an Ad option on the Facebook site. However advertisers will still be able to target ads based on your friendship activity, more precisely called ‘Social Context’ – socially contextual related ads. Facebook described the new ads as follows: Marketers will no longer be able […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Reveals Top Australian Topics Of 2013
Every year we see Facebook release some country specific data allowing us to see what different parts of the world are talking about. They have just released their Australian data today, along with about 20 other major countries Facebook have published info on. Most talked about topics (by Australian Facebook users): 1. Vote 2. Kate […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Tweaks Desktop & Mobile Newsfeed To Surface Higher Quality Content
Facebook has made a change to their newsfeed algorithms to help surface more quality and interesting content to it’s users – such as news stories, and less ‘cheesy’ content, like memes. The change will take effect on both desktop and mobile versions of Facebook. Facebook Engineers Varun Kacholia and Minwen went on to say that average referral […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Prompts Users For Red Cross Donations In Light Of Philippines Disaster
It seems Facebook are doing their bit of ‘Social Good’ by currently prompting users to Donate to the Red Cross Charity in light of the recent natural disasters in the Philippines. Many users when logging into Facebook are seeing the following notification at the top of their newsfeed: Then allowing users to make a donation […]
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