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Facebook lite app for slow or unstable connections

Are you using a budget Android device ? Is your internet connection hovers around 2G speeds ? Then, you may try Facebook Lite app This version of Facebook is efficient with data and works in all network conditions. Installs quickly


Now Facebook videos can share on websites/blogs

Facebook now allows to you easily embed videos on web pages outside Facebook. That means if you come across an interesting video on Facebook, you can easily put it on your blog without having to direct your audience to the


Facebook launches FB Techwire to help journalists tech news page

Facebook has today launched its own page, called FB Techwire, that will surface breaking tech news, debates and other events to users of the social network in real-time. “The goal of FB Techwire is to aid in the discovery of


Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App

Facebook is launching a new free mobile app for its popular Groups feature that lets users create and interact with communities on the site, whether they’re based on hobbies, geography or culture. More than 700 million of Facebook’s 1.35 billion


Facebook in talks to provide free internet access across Africa

Social media giant Facebook wants to sign a deal with satellite company Avanti, which would supposedly bring free access to the internet over large regions in Africa. This is not the first time that the social network has pushed to


Facebook to launch work-based social network called ‘Facebook at Work’

Facebook is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” to get a foothold in the office that will see the social network of more than 1 billion people compete directly with Google, Microsoft and LinkedIn. The website,


Facebook launches new Places Directory

Facebook has launched a new Places Directory, which allows you to search for the best destinations in cities across the world. Once you have searched for a specific city or town, you can select from restaurants, hotels, bars, cafes, attractions,


Facebook launches video tool to help friends say ‘thanks’

Facebook today announced Say Thanks, an experimental service for sending personalized video cards to your friends. There are a number of different themes to choose from, though it doesn’t sound like customization will extent far beyond choosing that and what


Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg First Public Q&A !

Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his lieutenants at Facebook fielded questions from the public in a live Q&A Thursday. Questions were submitted on Facebook itself and also taken from people in the room where the “town hall” style event


Facebook brings free internet access to Kenyan mobile users

After the launch of Internet.org, an initiative designed to bring Internet access to everyone on the planet, Facebook has announced that the Internet.org app will be arriving in Kenya this week. The move was announced at the AfriCom event held