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Facebook to launch Clean India Mobile App

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is on a two-day visit in India, has said the social networking giant will help create the ‘Clean India’ (the cleanliness drive launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi) mobile app. According to an

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

Internet connectivity is a human right : Mark Zuckerberg

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today stressed on the need for bringing down the cost of accessing the Internet in India, as well as developing content locally to get more people connected to it. In order to achieve its

Facebook reportedly working on anonymous mobile app

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

Social Media Giant Facebook recently came under fire for its Real Name Policy and how it enforces that policy. Now it looks like the company is exploring another way to interact on its billion-strong social network. The New York Times

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)

Google Play Music for Android passes 500 Million Download Barrier

Posted on October 7, 2014 by sherly

Google’s Play Music app is a big deal in the Android world and it is getting bigger by the day. The folks over at Android Police recently noticed that Play Music shot past the 500 million download mark in Google

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 plans stricter scrutiny for accessing user data

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Mini Soji

Facebook has planned a stricter review of requests to access information on its 1.32 billion active users after a psychological experiment on unwitting users in 2012 created a furor on social media. There will be a stricter review of requests

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

Google Is Following WhatsApp competitor for India

Posted on October 4, 2014 by sherly

Google introduced its Android One program earlier this year, which focuses on building budget-friendly, solid quality smartphones for the developing world. Back then, the search giant made it pretty clear that, with help from manufacturers, it wanted to create a

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