WhatsApp is adding support for in-app payments, Apple is upgrading the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro desktop and we argue about the future of startup hubs. After months of talks and trials, WhatsApp has finally pulled the trigger on payments. Users in Brazil will be the first to be able to send and receive money … Continue reading WHATSAPP LAUNCHES PAYMENT
Mark Zuckerberg has revealed plans to use his platform to combat racial injustice as he spoke about racism and police brutality. The Facebook founder made this known as he mourned the murder of, not just George Floyd, but also Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others. Mark Zuckerberg reacted to the deaths of a number of … Continue reading MARK ZUCKERBERG REVEALS PLANS TO USE FACEBOOK TO COMBAT RACIAL INJUSTICE
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused Facebook Nigeria of shutting down their leader’s Facebook page. A publication by Facebook cited on Nnamdi Kanu’s page: @MaziNnamdiKanuTheLeaderIPOB read: “Your Page has been unpublished. This is because Mazi Nnamdi Kanu goes against our community standards on spam.” A statement by the Media and publicity Secretary of IPOB, … Continue reading IPOB ACCUSES FACEBOOK OF SHUTTING NNAMDI KANU’S PAGE
Facebook has shut down 5.4 billion fake accounts so far in 2019, the social networking giant announced in its Community Standards Enforcement Report on Wednesday. According to the data, approximately 5 percent of worldwide Facebook active users were identified as fake accounts throughout the year. The company said that they classify fake accounts into two types: abusive … Continue reading Facebook has shut down Over 5 billion fake accounts this year
Facebook plans to integrate its messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
While all three will remain stand-alone apps, at a much deeper level they will be linked so messages can travel between the different services.
Facebook told the BBC it was at the start of a "long process".
The plan was first reported in the New York Times and is believed to be a personal project of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
After 18 months of testing, Instagram introduces a different kind of friends list
Once her parents set up the studio lights in their simple one-room Bangkok home, 18-year-old "Fai" bursts into action.
More than 250 people worldwide have died while taking selfies in the last six years, according to a new study from researchers associated with the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, a group of public medical colleges based in New Delhi.
A white-hat hacker is promising to livestream his bid to hack into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account on Sunday, Sept 30.
Facebook’s Instagram site is overrun with pornography and other sexually charged images and videos that are accessible to the site’s many teenaged users.
I'll be honest: I love social media about 99 percent of the time
It’s been a bad year for Facebook Inc. OK, a truly terrible year. It just got even worse.
Kevin Systrom, left, and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram.
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