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Facebook’s ad tracking system now updates in milliseconds

Facebook announced Friday that it would be providing marketers with in-depth analysis on the ads they pay for. Over the course of the year,…

Facebook Safety Check will let you be a mini-hero during disasters

Facebook’s Safety Check system has been one of the company’s more notable additions to the site in 2016. The system — which triggers when…

Facebook one step closer in quest for original content

Facebook has been dropping heavy hints that they intend to prioritise original content in the near future, and have had no shame in picking…

Over 200m people are now using Facebook Lite

Around 1.8-billion people now use Facebook on a monthly basis, but what about Facebook Lite? The social media giant has today announced that over…

Facebook’s fake news tools coming to France ahead of elections

According to a report, Facebook will implement fake news checking systems in France ahead of the country’s elections. The move is in a bid…

5 impressive numbers from Facebook’s latest earnings report

Facebook is an internet colossus in the same way we viewed Google a few years ago. The company is riding a remarkable growth curve,…

Facebook’s next destination could be your television

Facebook has been on a roll in January, spitting out updates to its multiple services and outlining its future plans. But the latest report…

‘A Look Back’: Facebook creates a nostalgic custom video using your life

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Facebook’s founding. As creator Mark Zuckerberg reflects on the last 10 years with his company, he and his…

Wish you could edit your ‘Look Back’ video? Facebook is working on it

If you hopped over to Facebook.com/Lookback on the social media giant’s tenth birthday, you may have experienced any one of these responses to the…

10 of the most important dates in Facebook’s 10 year history

Ten years ago today, a project that began in a Harvard dorm room set off on the path to world domination. Yup, on 4…

Should Flipboard really be afraid of Facebook Paper?

From the moment word got out that Facebook was working on a newsreader app, people have been comparing it to Flipboard. It makes sense…

Facebook makes Flipboard-style news reader Paper official

In what may be the least surprising piece of tech news today, Facebook has launched Paper, its Flipboard-like news curation app. As is the…

It’s official: Facebook now makes more than half its ad money from mobile

Wondering how much cash Zuck and company are raking in from those little ads they keep sticking into the Newsfeed of your Facebook app?…

This calculator will tell you how much time you’ve wasted on Facebook

Well, this is disturbing… I have apparently donated more than a month of my life to Facebook. That’s according to TIME’s new web tool…

What now? Facebook’s hired human beings to edit its newsreader app

Whatever you may think about Facebook, you can’t deny that it is pretty much king when it comes to navigating social graphs. Its Newsfeed…

Debunking Princeton and Facebook’s imminent demise with hilarity

Princeton University recently released a study, which predicted that by 2017 Facebook would lose 80% of its current user base. The clever folks at…

Facebook basically just told brands to stop posting text-only status updates

In a blog post yesterday, Facebook confirmed what every social media manager with an eye on their analytics could tell you: text status updates…

Facebook is the new Yahoo, and that’s why it simply has to unbundle its products and apps…

It’s not surprising that Facebook is planning a series of standalone apps to be released this year. In fact, it’s already unbundled some services…

The problem with Facebook is that it’s hiding things from you

Most publishers and page owners will tell you that they have seen a decline in the number likes, and reach their posts on Facebook…

Facebook could soon launch Paper, a Flipboard-like reader

There have been whispers that Facebook’s on the verge of launching a news reader designed to compete with Flipboard for since at least mid-2013….

Here we go: video ads are coming to Facebook as early as this week

It’s been long anticipated, but it seems Facebook is finally ready to start rolling out those much-rumoured video ads in your News Feed. Or…

Miley, Mandela and the Harlem Shake: the biggest posts on Facebook this year

Twerking, checkins at Disneyland and um, piercings. That’s pretty much what happened on Facebook this year, according to the social media company. Yes, Facebook…

Facebook’s Middle East and Africa boss on ads, mobile and the scramble for Africa

Africa is an important market for everybody. Facebook is well aware of this and ready to jump abroad the great innovation train blazing through…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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