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Facebook Makes It Easier to Search your Friends Posts

Facebook Search finally gets an update. It majorly introduces a way you can search for posts by your friends and people/pages you follow. The update enables you to search and find any post you’ve seen before on facebook. This is not limited to posts only, photos, posts, videos, and links ...

9 Dec
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

WhatsApp becomes secure with addition of end-to-end encryption

The popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has recently added end-to-end encryption for the mobile app. This is seen as a way of ensuring high level of security to millions of users. The move was initiated by Open Whisper Systems, a mobile security company. It has created a partnership with WhatsApp ...

19 Nov
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Now there is an app for Facebook Groups

When Facebook released their earnings in October, they announced that they had reached a worthwhile 700 million Facebook users in groups, a figure that has grown past January’s 500 million. That’s majorly the reason why today Facebook launched Facebook Groups, a separate app for people to communicate and interact with ...

18 Nov
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FACEBOOK SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook developing new “Facebook at Work” social network to compete with LinkedIn

Reports have it that Facebook is working on a new social network that will be called “Facebook at Work”. It will apparently allow users to separate their professional profiles from their personal Facebook profiles. The move is aimed at making employers embrace the social network and allow employees to use the ...

17 Nov
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Mark Zuckerberg brings free Internet access to Kenya

Facebook’s plan to connect the two-thirds of the world’s population without internet access is getting momentum after the announcement that Kenyans will now be able to access news, information and various communication services free of charge via the Internet.org’s app. Kenya becomes the third country to get free internet access after ...

11 Nov
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FACEBOOK MUST READS SOCIAL MEDIA

114 year old woman “fakes” age to join Facebook

A woman who was born in 1900 had to lie about her age in order to join Facebook. Facebook apparently provides for dates of birth beginning 1905 and not earlier. She was forced to lie about her age as being 99 years old after her ideal age bounced back as ...

15 Oct
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APPLE FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook and Apple offer for women staff to freeze their eggs

Facebook is paying $20,000 for women staff for the so-called ocyte-cryopreservation which enables women to delay getting children in the early stages of their careers until later. The process which costs between $10,000 and $15,000 plus an additional $1,000 a year to keep the harvested eggs on ice is a ...

15 Oct
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook working on a mobile payment solution for the iPhone

Facebook is apparently working to provide a mobile payments solution which will let friends send money via Facebook Messenger app on the iPhone. Hidden features of the Facebook Messenger app have revealed the plans by Facebook to develop a mobile payments system. Screenshots taken below from the Messenger app on ...

6 Oct
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook is Paying Users $200 To Test Its New App

Facebook is offering $200 to people willing to test out its new photo-messaging app Slingshot. The social network says participants will have to devote “about 1-2 hours per week” to the study over a three-month period. The role is likely to involve giving feedback and opinions on using the app, ...

31 Jul
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

2 Year Old Gifts Service to be Shut Down by Facebook

Facebook Inc will shut its 2-year-old Gifts shop on August 12, as the world’s largest social network tests other ways to let consumers buy products on its website. “We’ll be using everything we learned from Gifts to explore new ways to help businesses and developers drive sales on the web, ...