Facebook has unveiled new tools which will make use of artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves and help prevent the suicides. While the site already has self-harm prevention features, they rely on users to spot and report friends’ problematic posts. Now, the company is testing AI tech that… Read More »
On Wednesday, Facebook unveiled its’ research lab to develop hardware products and hired a top Google executive to lead the effort, underlining the social-networking company’s broadening technology ambitions. The new head Regina Dugan — a former Pentagon research chief who joined Alphabet Inc.’s Google in 2012 and who helped shape such Google initiatives as Project Tango (3-D mapping capability… Read More »
Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 is starting in San Francisco today. Over the course of the next two days we’re expecting to see a range of announcements coming from the social media giant, including updates to Messenger, Instagram, virtual reality and live video. The main focus, similar to what we saw at Microsoft’s Build last month, is expected… Read More »
Facebook’s Messenger app will now support multiple accounts on the same device. The company announced the new feature as it said that it was also testing if the Messenger app could replace the user’s default messaging app on a smartphone. It also said that the multiple-account update comes in the light of more and more… Read More »
Mobile messaging app WhatsApp on Tuesday announced that it has crossed the billion user milestone globally, with an addition of 100 million users in the last five months. “As of today, one billion people are using WhatsApp. That’s nearly one in seven people on earth who use WhatsApp each month to stay in touch with… Read More »
Facebook announced a 52pc increase in quarterly revenue as it sold more ads targeted at a fast-growing number of mobile users, sending its shares up 13 per cent in after-market trading. Facebook’s dominance in mobile advertising helped to allay Wall Street concerns over its heavy investments in messaging service WhatsApp and virtual reality unit Oculus,… Read More »
Social networking giant Facebook has launched Sports Stadium – a dedicated place to experience sports in real time with your friends and the world. The feature is called Facebook Sports Stadium, and though the company says it will add other sports to it, right now all you can keep up with is content related to… Read More »
After recently updating its icons to highlight gender sensitivity, Facebook has now turned to the most important feature of Facebook – the News Feed. The News Feed has been pivotal in the success of Facebook, be it experience or a revenue point of view. Since its IPO in 2o12, the emphasis on revenue has come… Read More »
In a Q&A on his profile today, Mark Zuckerberg explained how he and his team are preparing Facebook for the future. In it, he revealed that he believes the ultimate communication technology will allow us to send thoughts to each other. “You’ll just be able to think of something and your friends will immediately be… Read More »
Last year, Facebook famously offered to buy Snapchat for a few billion dollars. Snapchat declined. Some people thought Snapchat and its CEO Evan Spiegel, now 24, were insane. Others thought it was a brilliantly gutsy move to build a great company alone. So why did Spiegel and Snapchat really turn down Facebook? And who leaked… Read More »
