Facebook wants to help you decide your next lunch or dinner destination as it has added menus to restaurant Pages. The social network is using a tool called SinglePlatform which will allow business owners to upload their entire food or beverage menu onto Facebook.
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Facebook reportedly developing video chat tool Slingshot to compete with Snapchat
Facebook is planning to take on popular ephemeral messaging app Snapchat by developing its own video and photo messaging app. According to the Financial Times, the social network is calling the app Slingshot that will let user share videos and photos that are self destructing.
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Iran bans Whatsapp, cites “Zionist” Zuckerberg as the reason
Whatsapp, the massively popular instant messaging application, was recently acquired by Facebook for a huge sum of 19 billion dollars. The deal has not even closed, but troubles already seem to be starting to pile up for the company, starting with this – Iran, officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, has censored Whatsapp in its country, citing “Zionist” Zuckerberg as the reason for the ban.
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Facebook unveils App Links, the cross platform key to the Internet of Apps
Facebook just unveiled “App links”, an open source solution that works across all the major mobile platforms, to solve a longstanding problem. This is perhaps the biggest and boldest move we have seen Facebook take, in mobile. Why? Well, because it aims to fix a problem that has been lingering over mobile, ever since the inception of the app store – interlinking of applications. Remember the time your phone took you to the web browser for seeing a Facebook photo instead of the app, even when the first party app was installed? The company aims to solve this exact problem by directly linking users to apps, or part of them, hence enabling the “Internet of Apps”. Think of it as the web hyperlink, but for apps, so you will tend to start browsing apps rather than websites.
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Facebook reports Q1 2014 earnings, records $2.5 billion in revenues
Facebook released its earnings report for Q1 2014 posting revenue of $2.5 billion, which is an increase of 76 percent since 2013. The social network exceeded Wall Street expectations which were between $2.36 and $2.4 billion. Facebook’s mobile ads represented 59 percent of its total ad revenue in the first quarter, up from 30 per cent in the year-ago period. The company’s revenue from advertising was $2.27 billion, up 82% over that time.
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Twitter debuts app-install ads on mobile
With an aim to pump up its revenues further, Twitter has introduced app-install ads on its mobile platform. Dubbed as “Mobile App Promotion Suite”, new mobile app promotion suite that will allow advertisers to promote mobile app installs both on and off-Twitter.
India leads in highest Facebook content censorship requests
India has become the number one country in the world to make maximum requests for content censorship on Facebook. The world’s largest social revealed in its Second Transparency Report that the Indian Government made 3,598 requests and asked for access to over 4,711 accounts.
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Twitter adds real-time pop-up notifications for web
Soon after giving its profiles pages a Facebook like overhaul, Twitter has now added a new feature to its website. The popular microblogging site has announced that it is rolling out pop-up notifications for users of Twitter.com.
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Facebook announces that it will clean up its News Feed Spam
Facebook is getting a lot of heat from publishers that their page’s content is not making it to the timeline of its fans and that is not at all. Facebook is being bombarded with a lot of spammy posts that ask the user for engagement like asking them to share the pic, like the pic or comment on it. Facebook has announced that it is planning to punish the publishers for such spammy posts.
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Facebook to pull Messaging from main app, force users to download Facebook Messenger
Facebook has started notifying users in a few European countries that it won’t offer messaging service on Facebook app in two weeks, according to a recent report from The Verge. Facebook users are asked to download the Facebook Messenger app to use messaging service. Facebook released the Messenger app for Windows Phone last month and it is also available for the Nokia X platform. Continue reading “Facebook to pull Messaging from main app, force users to download Facebook Messenger”
WhatsApp Voice Calling feature could go live soon
WhatsApp had announced in February this year that it will add voice calling feature to it platform in Q2 of 2014. The popular mobile messaging platform which was acquired by Facebook recently, is a leader in the mobile messaging space with over 465 million monthly active users.
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Facebook India rolls out ”I’m a Voter” button
With an aim to encourage Indian users to vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2014, Facebook has added a “I’m a Voter” button. Indian users will see a reminder message about voting on the polling day depending on once locations at the the top of their New Feed. The “I’m a Voter” button will be present next to the reminder message and both these features will be available on Facebook mobile apps on polling day.
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Facebook India surpasses 100 million monthly active users
Facebook has crossed 100 million monthly active users in India which is the second largest country on the social network behind the US. Javier Olivan, VP, Growth & Analytics, Facebook stated in an interview with the Economic Times, that Facebook crossed the landmark on March 31. He also touted that the company is now eyeing for reaching over 1 billion active users in India.
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Facebook acquires Oculus Rift, a Virtual Reality Gaming Headset company
Facebook is on a buying spree. Recently, it had acquired the messaging company Whatsapp for a record $19billion and now, it has acquired Oculus Rift, a virtual reality company. Oculus first demonstrated the prototype in June 2012 at E3 and then raised crowd funding for its Oculus Rift product.
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Facebook testing a persistent notification bar for your Android device
Facebook continues to push its mobile first approach and is currently testing a new feature on the Android version. Facebook now wants to be always on with a persistent notification bar that displays your display picture and provides direct access to your newsfeed, friend requests, messages and notifications.
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