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

Instagram for Android updates for speed boost

Instagram for Android has been updated with a new UI and faster performance, including making the app fit more comfortably on smaller-screen handsets. The app should now load twice as … Continue reading

Facebook to build innovative Data Center Concept in Lulea, Sweden

Borrowing bits and pieces of technology from the automobile industry, Facebook hopes to construct a radical new second building in the city of Luleå, Sweden. This new structure proposes to … Continue reading

Privacy groups demand Facebook Whatsapp acquisition be halted

A privacy advocate group has asked regulators at the Federal Trade Commission to put the kibosh on Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for a while. It seems they want to get … Continue reading

Facebook clamps down on gun sales

Facebook will clamp down on gun sales on the social network, it’s been announced, with the site set to contact private sellers to warn them of their legal obligations as … 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

Ellen’s most-retweeted Oscars selfie: Samsung made it happen

By now you’ve likely seen the “selfie” photo taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the 2014 Oscars. What you might not know is the process that lead up to it – … Continue reading

Facebook Messenger for Windows gets axed March 3rd

Facebook’s little-loved email service isn’t the only service getting shuttered, the social network has confirmed, with Facebook Messenger for Windows also facing the axe. Notifications in the Windows app have … 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