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After Instagram, Facebook Messenger Eyeing to Launch the Unsend Feature

15Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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After Instagram, Facebook Messenger Eyeing to Launch the Unsend Feature

After Instagram, social networking platform Facebook is prepping up to bring in the feature of ‘unsend’ on its messaging app Facebook Messenger. And thus, soon the feature may be nearing a release. Initially, Facebook announced that it would be adding the "unsend" feature for everyone in April after it came out that messages CEO Mark Zuckerberg had sent to other users were removed from the users' inboxes while older messages that those users sent Zuckerberg were still present. The feature of deleting messages on the messenger was available since long, however, deleting those messages would not delete the message from the recipient's inbox. Photo sharing app Instagram that is owned by Facebook already has the "unsend" feature that removes the message from both inboxes, even messages f...

13Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram Testing Tapping to Replace Scrolling of Posts

The photo-messaging mobile application Instagram that is owned by Facebook is reportedly testing "tapping" as a replacement of scrolling through posts on the platform. The social firm is testing the tap-to-advance feature to navigate between posts in the Explore section of the app. "We're always testing ways to improve the experience on Instagram and bring you closer to the people and things you love," an Instagram spokesperson stated. As of now, Instagram already provides an auto-advance feature in its "Videos You Might Like" section of Explore which automatically plays the next video when the last one finishes. "As for whether this could come to the main feed, an Instagram spokesperson said it is not something they're actively thinking about right now," the report added. The tap-...

Messenger Lite Rolled Out for iOS, Available only in Turkey

11Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Messenger Lite Rolled Out for iOS, Available only in Turkey

With all the mobile applications launching the lighter version of their apps, Facebook also came up with with the Messenger Lite app in October 2016, but it was available only for Android users back then. After two years of its existence, the lite app is being now rolled out on for iOS users as well, however, it will only be available in Turkey for now. The Messenger Lite app, like all the other lite apps, is small in size, uses less data, and works even in spotty connectivity. The Facebook messenger’s lite app is only 10MB in size whereas the normal Messenger app is huge around 140MB in size on the App Store. In comparison, the Facebook Lite app for iOS is about 16.3MB in size. The company is planning to roll out the app on iOS in other countries as well but it may take some time. T...

Facebook Marketplace has Launched New AI-Powered Features

5Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Marketplace has Launched New AI-Powered Features

This year Facebook has been dealing with a lot of issues related to security and safety of users. Since then the company has been making efforts to improve its image and come back in the scenario clean and clear. Celebrating the second anniversary of its ‘Martketplace’, the social media giant has launched new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered features to assist its buyers and sellers complete transactions faster. Facebook Marketplace came into existence in 2016 as a place for Facebook users to buy and sell within their local communities. It has emerged to be a popular place where people around the world can discover things they love, connect with people locally, launch a business, and earn a living through Facebook. "We believe AI can fundamentally change the way people shop, and...

Facebook Reports Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Users

1Oct By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Reports Security Breach Affecting 50 Million Users

Facebook is again in the news headlined these days, where it reported a security breach that affected 50 million accounts. The hack occurred on September 25, when Facebook’s engineering team discovered a security breach. This breach enabled unknown attackers to take over 50 million user accounts, and another 40 million were vulnerable to the attack. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company did not know who was behind this attack. Also, he claimed that he did not have any information whether any of the accounts that were hacked were misused. Attackers reportedly stole Facebook access tokens through its “view as” feature. The “view as” feature allows the users to see how their own profile looks like to the other users. Also, Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, menti...

Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform

26Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Twitter Set to Ban Dehumanizing Language on its Platform

The social media major Twitter has announced to further update its "hateful conduct" policy to include content that "dehumanizes others". This will be based on their membership in an identifiable group, even when the material does not include a direct target. Twitter is one of the most popular micro-blogging platforms in the world has a huge user base. The company has been developing and building a new policy to address dehumanizing language that makes someone less than human. "Some of this content falls within our hateful conduct policy (which prohibits the promotion of violence against or direct attacks or threats against other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, religious affiliation, age, disability or serious disease). "But there ar...

Instagram’s Co-founders Step Down from Facebook’s Company

25Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram’s Co-founders Step Down from Facebook’s Company

The co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have reportedly stepped down and now have plans to leave the company in coming weeks. This move is possible to add to the challenges faced by Instagram’s parent company, Facebook. The two co-founders did not give a reason for their departure, however, stated that they planned to take time off after leaving Instagram. Systrom and Krieger have been in contact with each other since 2010 when they met and transformed a software project built by Systrom into what gradually turned out into Instagram. At present, the Facebook-owned app has more than 1 billion users. Instagram has been one of the most important acquisitions of Facebook. The social media company took over Instagram in 2012 for $1 billion, wh...

Facebook Set to Launch its Own Video Chat Device

24Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Set to Launch its Own Video Chat Device

The social media giant Facebook is reportedly ready to make an announcement regarding its own video chat device called Portal next week with an aim to take on Amazon's smart home devices. With this new launch, the company will give a fight to Amazon's Echo Show. It will be available in two variants where the larger variant could be priced at around $400, while a smaller variant could go for around $300. However, it will have connection with Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and let users watch videos, play music, see cooking recipes, and much more. The report said that Facebook had originally planned to announce Portal at its annual F8 developer conference in May "But the company's scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica data breach and the bombshell revelation that Russia used t...

14Sep By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Instagram to Launch a New Feature to Prevent Substance Abuse

Photo and video sharing social platform Instagram that is owned by Facebook is launching a new "prompt feature" that would pop-up if the users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services. This would even happen if they try to purchase drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as "opioid". It has been reported by the company that the users make use of hashtags to find addiction support and communities as well as illegal drugs. This is an attempt to encourage people who are indulging in or fighting against addiction of drugs. The prompt comes with three options to choose from -- "get support", "see posts anyway", and "cancel". With this move, the company is introducing a new pop-up feature which aims at solving the platform's drug issues, even ...

Snapchat Defeats Facebook’s & Instagram’s User Base in the USA

30Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Snapchat Defeats Facebook’s & Instagram’s User Base in the USA

With the tough fight among the social media giants including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc, it has always been the primary motive of these companies to target the teenagers as most of the user base of the social media platforms comes from the teens. Though Instagram and Facebook have been prevailing in the market since a long time, Snapchat seems to grab more attention of the teenagers in the US. According to a study, the photo-messaging application Snapchat has proved to be the most preferred social networking platform among US teenagers, beating the user base of Facebook and Instagram in that age-category. According to a research done by market research company eMarketer, this year i.e in 2018, 16.4 million 12 to 17 year-olds are likely to use Snapchat as compared with 12.8 mil...

Facebook Launches Video-on-Demand Service Facebook Watch

30Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook Launches Video-on-Demand Service Facebook Watch

With all the social media platforms coming up with various innovations, Facebook has also introduced its Facebook Watch video-on-demand service for all users. With this particular feature, the users can view video on different categories like sports, news, entertainment along with videos from content creators. Facebook Watch will provide an experience similar to that of YouTube where users can comment and react to videos on real time. This feature was first launched in 2017 in the US, however, now it will be available for all the users. The company is basically launching the Watch service globally to boost its advertisement revenue. "Taking Watch global also means new opportunities for creators and publishers around the world. We’re expanding our Ad Breaks program so more partners can ...

Facebook’s Onavo Removed from Apple Store Due to Privacy Concerns

23Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Facebook’s Onavo Removed from Apple Store Due to Privacy Concerns

The technology giant Apple has removed the Facebook-owned security app Onavo from the Apple Store. This step has been taken because the app failed to follow the privacy policy and rules of the tech major. It was reported that the app was gathering information about the other apps present on the users' iPhones for the purpose of advertising or marketing. With this, Facebook was able to know how people use smartphones outside of its own services. "We work hard to protect user privacy and data security throughout the Apple ecosystem," an Apple spokesperson said. "With the latest update to our guidelines, we made it explicitly clear that apps should not collect information about which other apps are installed on a user's device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing and mus...