Earlier this month, we shared with you that Facebook is adding its name to Instagram and WhatsApp, and would soon call them “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook”. For WhatsApp, this change seems to be coming very soon as it's latest beta update reportedly adds the 'WhatsApp from Facebook' tag to the app. ...
Facebook has updated its Group privacy settings and added admin controls for group safety because it wants to make it easier for users to understand its Group privacy settings. The social media site is doing away with the public, closed or secret settings. Alternatively, Groups will include two clear options ...
Apple’s next operating system update has taken privacy to be a renewed focus. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could have sweeping consequences for messaging and online call apps. In iOS 13, Apple will restrict apps to run voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) in the background ...
Instagram and WhatsApp are about to be renamed as Facebook tries to be clearer about its ownership of the two services. The two services will be renamed "Instagram from Facebook" and "WhatsApp from Facebook". These new titles are to appear on Facebook's internal branding, and also in the title for ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday announced charges against Facebook Inc. for making misleading disclosures regarding the risk of misuse of Facebook user data. For more than two years, Facebook’s public disclosures presented the risk of misuse of user data as merely hypothetical when Facebook knew that a third-party ...
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Most people think that online marketing is super easy and a thoughtless experience. However, people who have mastered the art of promoting their business online understand that it is never easy. You don't just wake up and decide to start an online business without a proper strategy. You also cannot ...
Facebook has partnered with CcHub to launch NG_Hub in Lagos, Nigeria - its first flagship community hub space in Africa, in a move expected to bring together developers, start-ups, and the wider tech community across Lagos and Nigeria. According to the social media giant, the space will bring together communities to ...
WeChat is fueling a giant ecosystem in China. It has 902 million users daily, 806 million monthly users for WeChat Pay in 25 countries. The giant social chat and payments platform also sees 205 million connected calls every day and 68 million videos are posted every day. Even more, WeChat ...
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum has left Facebook, the company that bought WhatsApp for $19 billion citing privacy concerns as Facebook trials WhatsApp for Business and WhatsApp payments and just weeks after Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal. Through Facebook, Koum wrote, "It's been almost a decade since Brian and I started WhatsApp, ...
WhereIsMyTransport has partnered with Facebook for Developers to host the 'CONNECT Hackathon Series', with the first event taking place at GEN's 22 on Sloane Campus in Johannesburg from the 19th – 21st January 2018. According to Marsh Reddy, Platform Evangelist from WhereIsMyTransport: “ I think we have put together something really special for Gauteng. ...
Facebook said it will shut down M, an automated personal assistant once thought to be the social network's text-based response to services like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. M's last day will be January 19th. According to a statement from Facebook: "We launched this project to learn what people needed and expected of ...
The Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Residency Program is seeking applications from people who have a strong technical background and are passionate about AI research. About the Award: The Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Residency Program is a one-year research training program with Facebook’s AI Research group, designed to give you hands-on ...
Surf, a Kenyan ISP has hit 850 hotspots delivering high-speed, affordable Internet in Kenya and aims to reach more than 1000 public areas by the end of this year across 20 cities in Kenya with its Wi-Fi hotspot network. Working with service provider Internet Solutions Kenya and Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi ...
Social media giant Facebook has moved from the friends and family platform it was at launch to having its hand in everything worthwhile. It's latest lust is food ordering.According to Alex Himel, Facebook's VP of Local, "Ordering food for takeout or delivery is supposed to be simple. That’s the point. But ...
You probably have tons of Facebook friends that are on your block list. You got tired of ignoring them, or you just were not up for any chat, so, you used the block button. Sometime, the unfriend button also comes in handy. Well now, during those moments, you can simply ...
Twitter has introduced all sorts of strategies to enable it catchup with Facebook in terms of numbers of users and profitability. Despite this, they are not even close. Hence, it may not come as a surprise to some industry watchers that, the social media platform has appointed Sriram Krishnan, a ...
Facebook, the biggest social media network in the world is planning to monetise WhatsApp which it bought for $22 billion in 2014. WhatsApp with 1 billion daily users, will charge companies to use some future features in the two free business tools it is testing. The tools, already available in ...
Facebook accounts are the most hacked and most pried social network accounts on the internet... and it is definitely not up for debate. Reasons for the prevalence in attack rate of Facebook accounts; I do not know but my best guess is it is somewhere between Facebook lacking essential security ...
Facebook has introduced Watch, a new tab on the social media network that offers a range of shows for users to view at their convenience. Watch will be available on mobile, on desktop and laptop, and in a TV app, with a watchlist that lets you save episodes to catch later. Although, some ...
Social networking giant Facebook has hit 2 billion users today, becoming the first social network site to reach such a number of users globally beating YouTube's 1.5 billion users, Instagram's 700 million and Twitter's 328 million users. The firm reached 1 billion in October 2012. Mark Zuckerberg announced, "As of ...
Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. The Bots for Messenger Challenge is a contest to recognise and reward developers who create the most innovative new bots on Messenger. The 60 ...
Facebook has announced that since 2015 the number of people on the platform across Africa has grown to 42% to over 170 million monthly active users. Of these, 94% come back on mobile. According to Carolyn Everson, VP Global Marketing Solutions, “Facebook is deeply committed to Africa, a mobile-first continent ...
When you are making a plan to start advertising campaign on Facebook, it is best to set some basic steps that will make your advertising campaign to meet the preferred goals that standard post boosting will not be capable to get. The initial step is to accurately define the ...
Surf, an Internet Service Provider that allows users in Kenya to access and subscribe to affordable internet services has partnered with Facebook to launch Express Wi-Fi in Kenya. Surf is a product of Boelist Investments in partnership with Access Kenya to offer affordable, high-speed internet available for purchase where Surfspot ...
Facebook has launched Live Audio, as it moves to Live experience, as users turn to live experiences rather than just recorded videos or text. According to Shirley Ip, Product Specialist, and Bhavana Radhakrishnan, Software Engineer, "We know that sometimes publishers want to tell a story on Facebook with words ...
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are coming together to help curb the spread of terrorist content online. There is no place for content that promotes terrorism on our hosted consumer services. When alerted, we take swift action against this kind of content in accordance with our respective policies. The firms ...
WhatsApp has launched its end-to-end encrypted video calling service to its more than one billion users globally, taking on Apple's FaceTime, MicroSoft's Skype and Viber among others in a move to help people stay in touch with workmates, friends, family, and others they care about. ''Today we’re excited to announce the next ...
Uganda's High Court has ordered the closure of Bridge International Academies, low-cost academies with high end academic standards which last year March raised $10m from Zuckerberg and others for its regional expansion. Bridge International Academy runs over 400 schools with over 126,000 students. The funding from Zuckerberg ans co. was supposed to ...
MTN Group is the first mobile operator in the world to deploy and test the open optical packet transport platform, known as Voyager, after joining the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) earlier this year. The TIP initiative, which was launched in February 2016, is a global endeavour which brings together key ...
