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Facebook revamps its ad formats, now sells video ads inside other apps

Facebook has announced an expansion to its ad types and formats that are available on Audience Network, allowing developers and publishers to bring the…

Facebook introduces messaging on Pages: a new way for customers and businesses to connect

Facebook is introducing a a new feature for Pages that aims to improve the way businesses and customers interact. The new feature has two…

Facebook launches live video-streaming feature for celebrities

Facebook is venturing into live video streaming. The social networking app has launched Live, a new way for public figures and fans to connect….

Facebook to let you buy stuff from retailer pages

Facebook’s business strategy increasingly seems to be borrowed from the lyrics to The Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’. It’s latest bid to ensure that you never…

Facebook’s floating video player lets you scroll through News Feed while watching videos

Facebook has long been telling us that its video plans are not to be scoffed at. In the latest bid to prove this point,…

Facebook hopes to implement AI services ‘within next 10 years’

Facebook and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sounds very creepy yet exciting sitting in the same sentence, but that’s exactly where the world’s largest social network…

Facebook Africa office officially opens its doors

Facebook has officially opened its Africa office in Johannesburg, six months after Memeburn first reported it would be doing so. Based in Melrose Arch,…

GM pulls Facebook advertising, big deal

Facebook ads don’t work, not even a little bit. Well that’s if auto giant General Motors (GM) is to be believed at any rate….

It’s complicated: Thoughts on why Facebook doesn’t like you to be alone

Jane Austen was a big fan of an advantageous marriage, and so it seems, is Facebook. One’s changes in relationship status are the most…

Tomorrow’s online world: Regulating Google & Facebook

The internet is a big place and companies like Facebook are dominating major parts of it. The concept of regulation has been floating about…

15 of the coolest creative Facebook Timeline hacks

As the Facebook Timeline roll out continues, more and more users are being forced to decide which image is worthy of being set as…

Facebook ‘friends’ may not be welcome on Google+

Is Google+ a ghost town? A lot of people feel it is because their “friends” and family are not on Google+, they are on…

Meet the Facebook, Google and Zynga overlords [Infographic]

We are all slaves to Mark Zuckerberg. Ok, this infographic is a bit dramatic, especially the whole ‘Internet slaves, meet your masters’ part and…

Thanks to Facebook, my birthday is an event

I recently had my birthday, which for most people is the day of the year when they have the most activity on their Facebook…

5 Reasons Facebook Timeline’s time is limited

By now, most Facebook users have made the transition to the new Timeline profile page, and it’s only inevitable that the resistant few will…

How to lockdown your Facebook profile in seconds

Worried about Facebook security? Sick off all those annoying apps pestering you for things you really couldn’t give less of a damn about? Fear…

Why Facebook stumped up $1bn for Instagram

To paraphrase the punk band Anti Flag, 1-billion dollars “could buy a lot of bling”. Or, if you’re Facebook, it could buy you Instagram….

Facebook doles out $1bn for Instagram

Just days after Instagram launched an Android version of its immensely popular app, Facebook has bought the photo-sharing social network. Facebook is estimated to…

6 Things people do when they interact with a brand’s Facebook Timeline

When Facebook rolled out Timeline for brands it was a pretty big deal. Some companies went all out, including their entire history, others went…

Facebook: Most people get into a relationship early in the week [Study]

You’re not really in a relationship until you’re FBO (that’s Facebook Official for the uninitiated). We all know that that little relationship status update…

The mechanics of a Facebook breakup [Case Study]

Susan Sontag said that photographs “furnish instant history, instant sociology and instant participation.” Nowhere is this truer than on Facebook. A user’s photos create…

Why Facebook keeps romancing Wall Street in its IPO

Facebook has added 25 banks to its IPO offering — a massive expansion from the original six banks named. It allows the banks offer…

Privacy? Why you should let Google, Facebook and others track you online

Mainstream news (in fact, all news outlets) will have you believe it’s the end of the world. Google’s new privacy policy came into effect…

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