Child advocates urge Facebook to end Messenger Kids

Wednesday, January 31, 2018 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

More than 100 child advocates, civil society groups, medical experts and other individuals are urging Facebook to discontinue its Messenger app for kids, alleging that the software poses health and development risks to children. Organized by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, nineteen groups, including Common Sense Media...

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You're being programmed by Facebook says Ex- executive

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Former FB exec and now venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya believes that social media is “eroding the core foundations of how people behave” and that he feels “tremendous guilt” about creating tools that are “ripping apart the social fabric.” "You don't realize it, but you are being programmed …...

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Google Celebrates the “father of modern African literature” with a doodle

Saturday, November 18, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

On what would have been his 87th birthday, Google is paying its respects to Chinua Achebe on its homepage. Achebe’s influence on African literature is inestimable. He’s been described as the “father of modern African literature” with novels which projected Nigerian and African culture globally at a time...

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Saturday, September 16, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Snapchat just launched a brand new feature with a little help from Avicii! The camera app is now allowing users to do some pretty cool things with their bitmoji, by bringing the custom avatar to life through 3D world lenses. Users simply click the rear-facing Snapchat camera, tap to place...

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PAYPAL introduces new cash back credit card

Thursday, August 31, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : , ,

PayPal is today launching a new credit card, the PayPal Cashback MasterCard – its first card to offer shoppers direct cash back on purchases, instead of points that vary by category. The card, introduced in partnership with Synchrony Financial, will offer 2 percent back on purchases, with no annual fee, no minimum...

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Facebook announces News Feed interface changes with new camera features

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Facebook today has announced a host of updates for both mobile and desktop users. Most notably, the company is making changes to how users go about navigating the News Feed on desktop and mobile, while the Camera functionality is also gaining a handful of new features. First off,...

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Facebook introduces new video functionality

Thursday, August 10, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Social media giant Facebook has made a move into dedicated video, pitting it against YouTube and TV networks. Users will soon see a new Watch tab that will offer a range of shows, some of which have been funded by the social network Watch will be personalised so...

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Twitter upgrades it's design so as to attract newbies

Friday, June 16, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Twitter has once again redesigned it's app, across mobile devices, desktop and the web application as a strategy to lure new users. Although Twitter retains its usual design but adds a gesture of something new. The update involves a series of smaller tweaks to things like where your...

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Facebook GIF button for comments to all users

Thursday, June 15, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category :

Reply threads on Facebook are about to get a lot more animated. To mark the 30th anniversary of the GIF format, all users will get the new GIF comment button that Facebook began testing three months ago. Facebook also announced that almost 13 billion GIFs were sent on Messenger...

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Facebook rolls out a new “Order Food” option in its main navigation

Friday, May 19, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Facebook is now making it easier for you to order food from your favorite restaurants directly within its app, without having to navigate away to a delivery service or restaurant’s own app or website. In the main Facebook navigation on both web and mobile, a new option called...

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Facebook now let's you follow topics, not just Pages

Thursday, May 04, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category :

Facebook gets a lot of flack for just reinforcing your world views in its News Feed echo chamber instead of challenging your opinions. That’s because you choose exactly which friends and Pages to follow, so liberals might skip Fox News or Breitbart while conservatives avoid The Atlantic and...

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Facebook, Airtel launch Express Wi-Fi in India, users will have to pay to use it

Thursday, May 04, 2017 Unknown 0 Comments Category : ,

Facebook has partnered with country's largest telecom player Airtel to deploy 20,000 internet hotspots through Facebook's Express Wi-Fi service in India. These hotspots will be installed by the company in the coming few months. " We are also pleased to announce our partnership with Bharti Airtel to launch...

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