Tag Archives : Facebook

Facebook today announced an update to Facebook for iOS and Android that lets the mobile users discover new places their friends like, with this revamp Facebook seems to be getting ready to compete even more closely with Foursquare and Yelp.   The updated version of the app features a refreshed Nearby tab, which, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom website, now shows recommendations [...]

WhatsApp, the popular cross platform smartphone chat app, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to a report in  TechCrunch. Facebook has been aggressively focusing on its mobile efforts especially after it stocks took a drubbing down. More than 750 carriers have WhatsApp users spanning across a multitude of mobile platforms like S40, Android, S60, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry.   “Whatsapp [...]

Facebook is banking on non-advertising services to boost its flagging stock prices, it’s been working hard and fast on adding new products to it’s Facebook Gifts service.On  Monday announced the addition of iTunes credit to its Gifts service. Facebook Users can now give iTunes digital gift cards accompanied by recommendations on content that their friends can purchase. iTunes gifts [...]

Credit : AP Facebook may soon share users’ data with recently acquired photo sharing service Instagram, the social networking site announced in its recent proposed changes to its data use policy. It will also put an end to a process that can allow its users to vote on changes to its policies and terms of services. The proposed policy reads ” We may share information we receive with businesses [...]

Facebook is rolling out a Photo Sync feature for iOS users which is already available on Android, the feature allows the user to upload photos directly from the phone’s album to a private album on Facebook. “When you turn on photo syncing, your mobile photos will be saved to a private section of your Facebook Photos,” Facebook said on an FAQ page. “You can easily share your synced [...]

Facebook has introduced a platform called Developer Alerts for  developers which  will allow developers to get alerts when Facebook makes platform changes that could impact their apps. Facebook will communicate via Facebook notifications and email for those listed as administrators or developers of apps. The social network said in a post on its developer blog that alerts will be sent in the following [...]

Facebook has launched its new mobile Share button on Android, iOS and mobile web. The button has been rumored for some time . Facebook’s Aditya Koolwal says that the Share button “gives people a fast way to share stories with friends from their mobile phones, just as they can from their computers.” The iOS app is now live in the App Store, and brings along improvements to tagging and News Feed [...]

Facebook’s journalism program manager Vadim Lavrusik on Tuesday  posted the 10 most-shared terms by Facebook users today on Facebook’s media page , and “We are ok” tops the list. The status update is used by people affected by Hurricane Sandy in US, people are leaving notes for loved ones about their own situation.  Others in the top 10 included “power” (lost power, have power), “made [...]

Facebook announced in August  that it would be giving Facebook Messages a whole new look, but didn’t commit on any roll out dates, Interactive Swim, a digital firm posted a picture on its Facebook Page, the image showed the welcome note for the updated Messages which recently hit its page, indicating that the feature may be starting to roll out to additional users. Interactive Swim wrote “A [...]

Facebook  posting $1.26 billion in revenues for its third quarter against the analyst estimate of $1.23 billion, earnings per share for the company, meanwhile, came in at $.12 compared to an estimate of $.11. The narrow margin was enough to boost the sentiment of investors as Facebook’s stock price was up 11% in after hours trading on the news. “As proud as I am that a billion people use Facebook [...]