London, Feb 2 (IANS) Social media giant Facebook’s official mobile app is slowing Android smartphones by 15 percent and is consuming excess battery power, a media report said on Tuesday. The hugely successful smartphone app…
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) Facebook-owned mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reached the milestone of one-billion users, with 42 billion messages being exchanged daily, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. One billion people now…
New York, Jan 30 (IANS) Social networking giant Facebook and its photo and video-sharing app Instagram are reportedly set to quietly make your photos incredible by adding computer art to them. According to The Verge,…
New York, Jan 30 (IANS) Taking a cue from President Barack Obama’s stand on curbing gun violence in the US, social networking giant Facebook has banned private gun sales on its site and mobile photo…
New York, Jan 30 (IANS) Social networking website Facebook will soon introduce a feature on its Events page that will allow users attending the same event to connect and share rides. A recent patent application…
New York, Jan 29 (IANS) Facebook has rolled out an update for iPhone users that enables them to live stream videos on the social media website. The feature was rolled out in the US on…
New York, Jan 28 (IANS) In a soon-to-be serious competition to video sharing website YouTube, the social networking website Facebook has announced that it recently hit 100 million hours of daily video watch-time in a…
Dubai, Jan 25 (IANS/WAM) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, is the most popular leader of the Gulf Cooperation Council on Facebook — with 3.1 million ‘likes’ on the social platform, said…
New York, Jan 25 (IANS) Facebook will construct a data centre facility at Ireland’s Clonee village that will become part of the infrastructure that enables billions of people to connect on the social networking platform,…
New York, Jan 23 (IANS) In what can allow many people in countries like China and Iran use Facebook where it is censored, the social networking site has reportedly tweaked its software that links the…
New York, Jan 23 (IANS) If you are an Apple user, get ready to experience your Facebook Timeline in 3D soon. According to reports, the social networking site is rolling out a special feature “3D…
Panaji, Jan 22 (IANS) Friends of Caitanya Lila Holt, 30-year-old US national, who died after allegedly choking on mud in a paddy field last week, have started an online campaign on the social media seeking…
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Social networking site Facebook on Wednesday responded to the Indian telecom regulator’s letter regarding Free Basics, saying it tried to cooperate with the watchdog. “Facebook’s mission is to make the…
Illustration by Jennifer Daniel London, Jan 20 (IANS) If someone claims that he or she has over 1,000 friends on Facebook, he or she is probably lying. According to an interesting research, the average number…
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) Exactly a month after Facebook allowed live streaming of commercial events, Reliance Industries on Tuesday took to the social networking site to announce its results for the third quarter of this…
New York, Jan 19 (IANS) In a bid to answer critics that it has not done enough to tackle online racist and hate speech at a time when Europe is going through a refugee crisis,…
London, Jan 17 (IANS) A British teenager posted on Facebook the phone number of a girl who spurned his advances, alongside an obscene video with a message saying she would perform sex acts if she…
New York, Jan 17 (IANS) Social networking website Facebook is testing an improved in-app browser that would allow users input their own URL should they want to check another page without leaving the Facebook app,…
New York, Jan 16 (IANS) A woman in the US was awarded a year in jail for violating a restraining order after she tagged her victim — her sister-in-law — on a Facebook post that…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg during a programme in New Delhi on July 2, 2014. (Photo: IANS) New York, Jan 15 (IANS) After Facebook CEO and his wife making a pledge in December to give away…