Facebook Business Manager aims to butter-up brands

Facebook has quietly developed a new “Business Manager” tool, still in its refinements stage, aiming to help brands better push promotional content into users’ timelines. Why is this big news? … Continue reading

Sina Weibo plans half-billion US IPO

Weibo, the Twitter-esque micro-blogging site owned by Chinese Sina Corp is taking advantage of the upward investing trend set by U.S. investors. Just this Friday the Chinese company filed papers … Continue reading

Twitter accidentally sends password reset emails

Users might have felt a slight disturbance in the Twitter universe when a number of users received email notices to change their passwords. Fortunately and amusingly, this time there was … Continue reading

Twitter crafting employee dining rooms from old cabins

Twitter, keeping in line with some of its other eclectic design choices, has tapped San Francisco-based Lundberg Design to design elements of new employee dining rooms made from two old … Continue reading

Facebook axes email service

Following confirmation earlier today that it recently hired former Ryan Seacrest Productions’ worker Sibyl Goldman, the social network has ushered in another change, this one affecting (a small portion) of … Continue reading

Facebook bereavement policy changed for dead users’ pages

Facebook is changing how it deals with the profiles of social network users who die, memorializing their timelines while also allowing family and friends to request to see their custom-curated … Continue reading

Facebook must follow Germany’s data protection law, rules court

The Higher Court of Berlin has ruled in favor of a 2012 court finding that Facebook has run afoul of German data protection law, and that it must comply with … Continue reading

Facebook does the math on love: NYC bad, Jedi good

Love may be in the air today, but Facebook believes it has the numbers to decide whether or not it’ll last, with the social site’s Data Science team crunching the … Continue reading

Facebook kicks off 90 day water taxi pilot program

Following a Google experiment of the same nature, Facebook has kicked off a 90-day water ferry pilot program that shuttles its employees to work over water. The program — taking … Continue reading

Facebook blows open profile gender options in inclusivity push

Facebook has added LGBTQ-friendly gender pronoun options for profiles, with more than ten to choose between as the social network makes it easier for users to be clear on how … Continue reading