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You can now comment on Facebook posts by uploading videos

It seems that the days of commenting on a Facebook post using a simple string of text is now a bygone era. After Facebook…

All-Madrid Champions League final draws 27m interactions on Facebook

The UEFA Champions league final was arguably the biggest sporting event on earth on Saturday, and definitely on Facebook too. The football match saw…

Facebook acquires VR company Two Big Ears, introduces 360 Spatial Workstation

If you think Facebook’s VR game was a joke then you were dead wrong. The company has announced the acquisition of Scottish VR company…

Facebook reworks Trending Topics after ‘allegations of political bias’

Facebook, in a bid to expel the allegations that it favours a conservative stance with its Trending Topics, is making changes to the product….

5 tips to spot a Facebook hoax

Hoaxes are all over Facebook and with users often encouraged or forced via hijacks and hacks to share and like content, it will often…

Facebook films Grand Central Station in stunning 360-degree video

Facebook has finally put that 8K-capable camera rig it unveiled at its F8 Conference to good use, and where better to take it for…

Facebook partners with Airtel to launch Free Basics in Nigeria

Bharti Airtel Africa, a leading telecommunications service provider, has announced that it has partnered with Facebook and to launch Free Basics in Nigeria. In…

Facebook marketing: 5 effective ways to cater to your mobile audience

There are 1.08-billion active monthly users on Facebook, which is why your business would be crazy not to have a marketing strategy for this…

Facebook’s Early Adopter Club set to reignite mobile experimentation

This is interesting. Facebook has opened up a limited beta club, which will see some Android users given the ability test out features before…

We’ll take that, thanks, Twitter: hashtags may be coming to Facebook

Brace yourselves: the internet may explode. Hashtags, which have long been a way to join a conversation on Twitter but just look odd on…

A deck of cards: how Facebook went about redesigning News Feed

Facebook’s newly unveiled redesign of News Feed looks good. It’s a lot more personalised and highly visual. Believe it or not Facebook didn’t do…

Take a look at Facebook’s personalised and super visual new News Feed

Facebook did that thing that its users hate today: it changed. Ahead of the launch, the rumours suggested that the billion-strong social network’s new…

Facebook News Feed redesign: more content specific, bigger ads, photos

When Facebook unveils its redesigned News Feed tomorrow we can expect something that is more content-specific as well bigger photos and adverts. According to…

Victim of the newsfeed: is Facebook really suppressing unpaid posts?

It sounds like a horror story dreamed up by a social media manager: Facebook seems to be showing fewer of your posts in the…

Facebook to unveil ‘new look for News Feed’ on 7 March

Facebook has sent out an invitation to the collected press, promising to unveil a new look for its News Feed on 7 March. As…

Facebook confirms it’s buying digital advertising service Atlas from Microsoft

Yep, Facebook is buying something else. While it’s not as sexy as the Instagram acquisition, this move may be of interest to brands looking…

Dear brand on Facebook, don’t just tell me a story, tell me your story

I went through a friend’s timeline on Facebook the other day; we had been friends long before Facebook created a millionaire, so it was…

Why Facebook should be very, very worried about Asian messaging apps

Facebook is under siege from every direction. SnapChat’s picking away at the young sexting market, Twitter dominated TV sets at the Superbowl, and Path…

Meet Facebook’s potential new (and creepy) location-sharing app

It seems Facebook is in the process of developing an app that tracks the locations of its users. The application, which is expected to…

Landmark ruling means South Africans can now sue each other over Facebook posts

A ruling by a South African judge means people in that country can sue for defamation over posts about them on Facebook. The man…

Facebook finally rolls out its gift card product

Given the focus Facebook was putting on social gifting in the second half of 2012, its decision to launch a gift card product is…

7 things we learned from Facebook’s Q4 results

While everyone was dissecting BlackBerry’s rebrand and attempted phoenix-rising-from-the ashes moment, Facebook announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012. This was…

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