Facebook the social networking site for Harvard University students back in 2004, has now more than 989 million active users worldwide. Faccebook advertising revenue rose to £3.6bn $5.2bn with more than 80 per cent coming from mobile. Their shares have leaped after reporting a tripling of first quarter profits from a year earlier to £1.04…
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Reactions are new addition too Facebook. This is an extenstion of the like button, if you share a sad piece of content or something that makes you angry, people can react and express themselves with the Reactions tool. The new Emoticons tool labeled love, haha, wow, sad and angry. For more than…
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday disowned his colleagues’s controversial statement that Free Basics was same as colonialism, saying it was deeply upsetting. Facebook board member Marc Andreesen’s offensive tweet that created an uproar on the social media, after India’s telecom watchdog the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) said no to discriminatory pricing…
LeEco, Chinese Tech giant is one of the first few advertisers to be selected to use Facebook Immersive Canvas Mobile ads, a new experience which allows advertisers to use a mix of videos photos and other elements in new and compelling ways. It is an alternative version of a brand’s website but will load faster…
Facebook and Instagram has announced that it is banning the users from advertising and selling privately firearms on its social network. The rule targeting people trading guns to one another on both social network following concerns that they were being used as a way to get around background checks. The latest development follows a string…
Facebook and Microsoft see a combine £37.1bn ($53bn) added to their stock valuation, as £51.5 bn ($73 bn) wiped out off the joint valuation of Apple and Amazon. Large valuation swings in tech is because of investors wanting to move their money out of maturing technology markets and into newer ones with better potential…
Fourth-quarter profits for Facebook, who now has 1.39 million active users each month, a 13 per cent increase, amounts to £ 462 m ($701m), a 34% increase on the same period last year. Advertising revenue grew by $3.59bn 53 per cent with 70 per cent coming from mobile advert sale. Total profits for the year…
India’s telecoms regulator has asked Reliance Communications, the mobile network that partnered with Facebook to put their Free Basics offer on hold. In India, the data fees are unbelievably expensive and the initiative aims to prevent this being a deterrent. Facebook’s efforts to provide the common man in India with free access to a limited…
Remya Ramachandran, from Thrissur, Kerala, India posted in Facebook an remarkable announcement that she is calling of her marriage due to intense demand for dowry from her groom’s family, which started soon after her engagement. Remya wrote “ To all those asking for the date of my wedding, the family that before the engagement had…
Facebook is bringing out a new feature on its social network that allows users to stream live video. Live streaming using mobile phones has become the new trend this year, with Meerakat and Twitter-owned Periscope growing in popularity. Amazon paid last year $1bn for Twitch, a live streaming game site. In its blogpost launching…