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Facebook Announces Facebook Gift Card

Facebook Announces Facebook Gift Card

Facebook  introduced the Facebook Card on Thursday , a resusable gift card that can be loaded with balances for different retailers when a user’s friends buy them gifts through Facebook. Facebook has added a number of options to its Gifts platform, including Target, Jamba Juice, Olive Garden and Sephora, who will offer gift cards to be purchased on Facebook. But instead of sending individual gift [...]
Facebook Releases 2012 Results

Facebook Releases 2012 Results

Facebook today reported Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results, it  reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of 17 cents and revenue of $1.59 billion, which was slightly ahead of what the Analysts have expected. Mobile revenue was 23 percent of all ad revenue, a huge increase over the 14 percent it contributed in Q3. “In 2012, we connected over a billion people and became a mobile [...]
Instagram Has 90 Million Monthly Active Users And 40 million Photo Uploads Per Day

Instagram Has 90 Million Monthly Active Users And 40 million Photo Uploads Per Day

To address reports of declining Instagrammers  due to the privacy policy changes started, Instagram has announced 90 million users are now active on the mobile photo sharing service per month. This is the first time that official numbers were released  after being acquired by Facebook last year. According to AllThingD, these numbers show a significant growth for the Facebook owned company, given [...]
Facebook Messenger Launches Free VoIP Calling For iPhone Users In US

Facebook Messenger Launches Free VoIP Calling For iPhone Users In US

Facebook has introduced out free voice calling for iPhone users within Facebook Messenger app for users in the US, earlier they tested after testing it for a short time in Canada. Free VOIP calling is already popular with apps like Viber, it is pretty big news when it lands on a Facebook app. Of course, the benefits of using Facebook Messenger to make voice calls are that it’s free with Wi-Fi and [...]
Facebook Announces Graph Search

Facebook Announces Graph Search

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]
Instagram Almost Lost Quarter Of Users After The Policy Changes

Instagram Almost Lost Quarter Of Users After The Policy Changes

Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared the photo-sharing service would use their pictures without compensation. Instagram, which Facebook bought for $715 million this year, saw the number of daily active users who accessed the service via Facebook bottom out at 12.4 million as of Friday, versus a [...]
Facebook Wiki Page Is The Most Viewed Wikipedia Article in 2012

Facebook Wiki Page Is The Most Viewed Wikipedia Article in 2012

Facebook article on Wikipedia has become the most viewed English article of the year, according to statistics from Wikimedia’s Toolserver. The next highest viewed page, Wiki, is a surprising one with 29.6 million views – it’s this page that explains how sites such as Wikipedia function – while the third place is taken by the list of deaths in 2012 (25.4 million views). Here’s [...]
Instagram Faces Class Action Lawsuit

Instagram Faces Class Action Lawsuit

Instagram’s changed terms of service which were announced few days ago caused a great deal of furore among the users, with many suspecting that the company was going to begin selling user photos without compensation. Instagram is now served with it’s  first civil lawsuit . Reuters reported about the lawsuit “In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court [...]
Facebook Launches Poke To Compete With Snapchat

Facebook Launches Poke To Compete With Snapchat

Facebook announced its rumored Snapchat competitor on through a blog post Friday , the app is named Poke. Not ununike Snapchat’s app, Poke, lets you send a message, photo or video to Facebook friends. The messages expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds, though. The Poke app, which will be available in the Apple iOS App Store on Friday. ‘With the Poke app, you can poke or send a message, photo, [...]
Faceboook Updates Privacy System To Messaging System, Tests Service to Let Non-Friends Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery

Faceboook Updates Privacy System To Messaging System, Tests Service to Let Non-Friends Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery

Want to send a Facebook message to a person who is not your Facebook friend? Pay up.  Facebook on Thursday starts testing if it can monetize and cut spam at the same time by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees it. Facebook’s also changing everyone’s privacy settings into dynamic filters that let “relevant” messages through. Facebook says the changes are primarily designed to let [...]
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