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Facebook Mobile now highlights your most liked photos

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Facebook has started rolling out an update to the layout of its iOS and Android apps to display your most popular photos more prominently. Now when looking through photos of someone in your friends list, their most-liked photos will show

Facebook Closes WhatsApp Acquisition

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Facebook’s acquisition of mobile messaging giant WhatsApp is complete. After getting the green light from Europe’s antitrust regulator on Friday, the $19 billion deal has formally closed in the United States. Today’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Facebook messenger app may soon allow money transfer between users

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Facebook Messenger is all set to allow friends to send money to each other, a report said on this Sunday. According to the website, payments would send the same way you can now send a photo. You’ll be able to

Facebook To Take Action on Fake Likes

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Popular social networking site Facebook recently announced that it noticed that many scamsters are promising its users to get likes on their Facebook pages and warned against utilizing such services. If such Accounts with Fake likes found, Facebook planning to

LinkedIn releases its first SlideShare iOS app

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

LinkedIn released an iOS app for SlideShare, a first for the company’s presentation service. The app includes a personalized feed of decks shared and liked by people in your network. You’ll also see picks from categories and SlideShare’s own editors.

Facebook is reportedly working on healthcare features

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Reuters has revealed that Facebook is planning to release healthcare-related features that would take user data to create support communities as well as ways to promote preventative care. The report from Reuters cites three people close to Facebook, and those

Ello: An ‘anti-Facebook’, ad-free social network

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Sibi Antony

In a matter of days, the new social network Ello, described as the “anti-Facebook” for its stand on privacy and advertising, has become perhaps the hottest ticket on the Internet. Created last year as a “private” social network, Ello (www.ello.co)

Facebook to launch a New Ad Network Soon

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Facebook is expected to unveil a new online advertising service next week aimed at helping advertisers better target and measure the impact of their ads while helping it better compete with Google, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new

YouTube commissions original content from top creators as it tests new formats

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Sibi Antony

YouTube has revealed a new plan to invest in original content from popular creators on its platform. In a blog post, the company outlined its existing investments in creators, such as channel partnerships, YouTube Space studios, and marketing campaigns. “Now,

Facebook Testing Post-Delete Scheduling Feature

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Facebook is trialing a new feature that lets you schedule the deletion of your posts in advance. A handful of users noticed the feature in the Facebook iOS app earlier this week, and we reached out to Facebook to seek