Tech companies including Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, WeChat, TikTok and others have partnered with WHO for a hackathon. The partnership will promote the development of software to take on the challenges related to the Coronavirus pandemic. The #BuildforCOVID19 hackathon was announced yesterday and will begin accepting project submissions on Thursday. The hackathon ...
Facebook is taking the challenge to keep people and small businesses safe and informed by making sure everyone has accurate information. The company is focusing on supporting global health experts and stopping misinformation during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. "These are unprecedented times, making things incredibly challenging for us all. Especially ...
Facebook has celebrated businesses that have graduated from the third chapter of the Facebook Accelerator London programme. Hosted inside Facebook London’s tech office. The Facebook Accelerator London programme runs in partnership with Founders Forum Group’s digital consultancy agency Founders Intelligence. The program is open to high-growth start-ups who are creating ...
Facebook has shrunk the iOS version of Messenger App Size Down By 75 per cent to make its iPhone messaging app run better especially on older phones. Facebook has rewritten the app t from scratch. It has shrunk Messenger’s footprint on iPhone down to an eminently manageable 30MB, less than a quarter ...
Facebook has cancelled its annual F8 developer conference over coronavirus concerns. The conference was scheduled to take place at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in California on May 5th and 6th. The event attracts thousands of developers across the globe. Last year, it attracted more than 5,000 developers, creators ...
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Facebook appears to be backing away from it's earlier plans to sell ads on WhatsApp. In 2018, the company confirmed that ads will appear in the Status feature. There were no revelations on when it would be rolled out but later last year, Facebook announced ads would arrive by 2020. But it looks ...
Facebook Facelift is finally rolling out on desktop application. The new design has a less cluttered look and brighter icons. Facebook executives announced earlier that the company was planning to push out a massive redesign to the application. The redesign will make Facebook easier to navigate around. It is primarily supposed ...
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Facebook on Monday introduced "Viewpoints" in the US, an Android and iOS App that pays members of the social network for taking part in surveys. https://youtu.be/w6hT7gs2uGE Facebook has a terrible history of collecting heaps of user data and doing a frightful job of keeping it safe. But if you are ...
The app was quietly released last week and is only available in Canada Now that memes are the soul of social media, Facebook doesn’t want you to miss out on the creativity just in case that is a streak you want to tap into. According to The Information, Whale App which essentially ...
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CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday that Twitter will ban all political ads, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook over its controversial stance to allow politicians to advertise false statements. https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Twitter had previously implemented rules and restrictions for political advertising. The announcement comes as Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over its decision ...
Earlier this year, Facebook launched group stories on its platform but the social media giant soon removed the feature after it wasn't very well received by users. The social media giant says that they want users to have groups to engage in discussion and connect with others with similar interests ...
How do you handle negative comments online? Social media can be a very dangerous to be in. People tend to hide behind their words more often than not and some people have no filter. Personally, I don't know how to handle backlash from online haters but I am slowly realizing ...
Facebook on Monday announced the acquisition of CTRL Labs, a New York startup that builds technology that can help your electronic device read your brain waves. The startup will join Facebook Reality Labs, a division of the social media company that is working to develop augmented-reality smart glasses. Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, ...
Is Facebook equipped to handle far more intimate personal data after their previous privacy scandals? Facebook Dating, which has existed in other countries since last year, went live in the US Yesterday, September 5th. This is definitely in the hopes that Facebook can compete with existing dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, ...
Facebook may soon start hiding like counts on News Feed posts to help improve the mental health of its users by protecting them from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. The company's idea is to prevent users from destructively comparing themselves to their friends and possibly feeling worthless if their posts ...
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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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 ...
