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Now Facebook gets 'Stories' feature

New York: After Facebook-owned Instagram and WhatsApp got a Snapchat-like “Stories” update, users on Tuesday got access to the new Facebook Camera feature that lets them add effects to their photos and videos. They can now share this content to a Snapchat clone called ‘Facebook Stories’ that appears above News Feed on mobile and works […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook unveils new shopping ad format 'collection'

New Delhi: Facebook on Friday announced a new shopping ad format called ‘collection’ to help marketers showcase their products in more visually appealing ways. ‘Collection’ elevates the likelihood of discovery and a purchase by featuring a primary creative video or image above relevant product images. Facebook also introduced a new click metric that specifically measures outbound […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook videos dominate social media: Report

New York: Facebook videos continue to dominate the social media, driving growth, engagement and media consumption, a new report has said. Social media analytics platform Quintly examined 167,000 profiles during the last six months of 2016 and found that 47 per cent of those profiles used video of some sort in their Facebook campaigns, including video […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook's biggest business-to-business campaign soon

New York: Social networking giant Facebook is set to launch its biggest business-to-business advertising campaign, educating marketers to invest more in mobile video ads specifically created for the platform’s smartphone users. According to a report in Adweek on Sunday, the Facebook brand campaign to be launched on March 16, aims to educate and inspire marketers to […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook launches 'Messenger Day'

New York: Facebook has launched “Messenger Day” that let users share with the public or a custom friend decorated photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Messenger Day is rolling out for everyone at the top of Facebook’s chat app on both iOS and Android. “You are always in control of who can see […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg's wife pregnant with girl

San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said that he and wife Priscilla Chan were expecting another baby girl. Their first child, Max, was born in late 2015. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said that when he found out his wife was pregnant, he hoped it would be a girl. His announcement came with […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook may soon broadcast original shows

New York: After the success of its Facebook Live feature, Facebook is looking for original TV-like programmes from various genres and may pay hefty amount for it, a media report said. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, Facebook was interested in original content from a slew of different genres, from […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook launches 'disputed' tag to crack down on fake news

New York: Social media giant Facebook has launched its much hyped “fake news” crackdown initiative in the US, tagging as “disputed” the stories that are deemed false by fact checking organisations, the media reported on Sunday. The new feature uses non-partisan third-party organisations like Snopes and Politifact to assess the factual accuracy of stories reported […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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WhatsApp Soon To Allow Users To Choose Video Quality Before Sending

Choosing the video quality before sending is useful as it means that you can pick the right option to either save bandwidth or share the video without heavy compression.

  • Saturday, 03 July 2021
Google, Facebook Publish First Compliance Report; IT Minister Says Big Step Towards Transparency
Google, Facebook Publish First Compliance Report; IT Minister Says Big Step Towards Transparency

The publishing of compliance reports by Google, Facebook and Instagram is bound to turn up the heat on Twitter, which has been engaged in a tussle with the Indian government over the new social media rules.

  • Saturday, 03 July 2021
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Facebook records 300 bn 'Reactions' on posts in one year

San Francisco: Facebook has recorded 300 billion “Reactions” on posts and the “Love” reaction was used maximum times by its over 1.79 billion users, the company said on Saturday. On February 24 last year, Facebook enhanced conversations by implementing “Reactions” — a group of emojis that has “Love”, “Haha”, “Wow”, “Sad” and “Angry” emoticons — […]

  • Saturday, 03 July 2021
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Truecaller joins Facebook, Google in 100 mn impressions club

New Delhi: Mobile communication app Truecaller has become the only platform apart from Facebook and Google that delivers over 100 million impressions in a single day, a company statement said on Friday. An impression is when an ad is fetched from its source, and is countable. Whether the ad is clicked or not is not […]

  • Saturday, 03 July 2021
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Twitter, Google, FB Pledge To Protect Women Online

Tech firms like Twitter, Google, Facebook and TikTok have committed to tackle online abuse and enhance security for women on their respective platforms.

  • Friday, 02 July 2021
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Facebook Launches 'Bulletin' For Independent Writers

With an aim to promote independent writers, Facebook has announced a set of publishing and subscription tools -- Bulletin -- to support these creators in the US.

  • Wednesday, 30 June 2021
Facebook, Google Officials Depose Before Parl Panel, Told To Comply With New IT Rules, Court Orders
Facebook, Google Officials Depose Before Parl Panel, Told To Comply With New IT Rules, Court Orders

The agenda of the parliamentary panel meeting was to safeguard citizens' rights and prevent the misuse of social/online news media platforms.

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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