Facebook Home is a new Kind of Homepage on Android smartphones, focusing more on People rather than Apps. It will be available on April 12th on HTC First Phone ($99) and for free download on Google Play Store for theses current phones : HTC One X, HTC One X+, Samsung GALAXY S3 and Samsung GALAXY [...]
Written on 04 April 2013 by Vincent AbryFacebook just unveiled the new appearance of its News Feed during a live session in Menlo Park, California. “Today we’re announcing a new version of Facebook designed to reduce clutter and focus more on stories from the people you care about. You see all the stories you saw in your News Feed before, but with [...]
Written on 07 March 2013 by Vincent AbryFacebook has already faced many troubles in the past concerning issues on privacy, and now that Graph Search is set to be launched for the bigger Facebook population, it’s possible not everyone is jumping up and down with excitement. This is because Graph Search can potentially be more invasive than any other feature introduced by [...]
Facebook is one of the most ubiquitous social networks around, along with Twitter, and at some point it’s going to encroach into other people’s emotions and leave either a positive or a negative impact. The influence of the social network is so pervasive that, according to Mashable, Facebook has the ability to make people feel [...]
Facebook’s expansion in Europe is in full swing as it is set to make available 100 additional jobs in Dublin, Ireland, in addition to the 400-people team that the social network has already stationed in the country. According to Irish news company RTÉ, this recent expansion will bring the total of the Facebook workforce in [...]
It’s a pretty common occurrence for people to leave Facebook for a time, but one father succeeded in convincing his teen daughter to quit the social network for a cash reward of $200. The father, Paul Baier who, according to his blog is VP Sustainability Consulting and Research at Groom Energy Solutions in Boston, published [...]
The number of users that access Facebook through their mobile devices clearly shows no signs of slowing down; and so the social network is purportedly at work on a mobile location tracking application set for a mid-March release date. This piece of news comes from two individuals who have close association with the plans, according [...]
Facebook has disclosed their financial results for Q4 2012 and the numbers are pretty impressive. Q4 2012 revenue is at $1.585 billion, signifying a 40% growth from the previous year of the same quarter, which recorded revenue of $1.13 billion. In a statement accompanying the financial results Mark Zuckerberg reiterated Facebook’s evolution into a mobile [...]
Many entrepreneurs on Facebook who have heard about the social network’s most recent functionality, Graph Search Engine, are most likely to ask this question: What’s in it for me and my business? If you ask Facebook, you’d most likely get the assurance that Graph Search will prove valuable in allowing more people to discover more [...]
Graph Search, Facebook’s own social search engine has been launched yesterday, and already its benefits for reporters and journalists could prove highly immense. According to Facebook, the new functionality allows for more relevant searches, allowing journalists the opportunity for richer, more meaningful searches on any expert, photo, or trend on any given topic. This smart [...]
Facebook just unveiled Graph Search, a new search engine fully dedicated to search the content on the social network. This not a classic search engine like Google or Bing because here there are no links to websites, but only internal stuff to look for, like photos, videos, updates, Places and interests. With 1 billion members, [...]
Not everyone is chummy with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Social Network, so if you have something urgent to tell him and you feel that it is worth any expense, then you might try shelling out $100 just so your message won’t go into that little-known Other Inbox and get ignored. Anyone who is [...]
With almost everyone on Facebook, businesses and organizations rely on the social network in the circulation of their marketing efforts. And one of the most convenient ways to secure potential customers’ attention is to use an attractive image with text overlays for marketing purposes. However, Facebook has very recently posed a few restrictions in the [...]
Facebook has always been known for tweaking things here and there, with some of the latest changes focused on message privacy settings and app permissions, but the most recent involves a possible redesign on the Timeline. ABC News has reported that Facebook is well on its way to introducing a few Timeline changes, after a [...]
Facebook is starting to roll out updates to app permissions, assuring its users of improved clarity and control where sharing information on the site through apps is concerned. First off is the redesign on the Login dialogs so that the presentation appears more streamlined and basic and the language used is clearer. For instance, “Basic [...]
On Wednesday last week COO Sheryl Sandberg sold 946,588 of her Facebook Inc shares, earning her a total of $26.2 million, as posted by VentureBeat on their site. This is the biggest trade by Facebook since it went public this year. The sales were completed through several transactions, with share prices that range between $27.67 [...]
Facebook first made it possible for its users to vote on any changes made to the site in 2009 in the wake of privacy complaints and questions on its Terms of Use. Now, the site is planning to take that veto power away but, perhaps to cushion things a bit, Facebook is asking its users [...]
Facebook has recently rolled out a new Pages Feed which started on November 15th, limiting the main news feed to displays of posts and status updates by friends. The Pages Feed is situated on the left side of the main news feed, under the Pages section and along with Favorites, Ads, Groups, and Apps. Before [...]
While Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had pronounced about his company acquiring Instagram as a stand-alone business, the social network behemoth has just announced its plans to merge user data with Instagram. Moreover, Facebook will no longer be consulting with its approximately 1 billion user population on any changes pertaining to its terms of [...]
Facebook has launched the facebook.com/us link on their site, specifically geared for couples, although it is simply an update on an existing FB feature: Friendship Pages. Couples who wish to indulge in some sort of time travel and look back on their Facebook moments together can easily do so through these couple pages. An update [...]