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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 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 takes on Pinterest’s buyable pins, expands beta test for ‘buy’ button on Shopify

Today, Facebook announced that it is inviting Shopify merchants to a beta test of its ‘buy’ feature. The feature allows users to buy things…

Facebook launches Internet.org in Malawi

The Internet.org project by Facebook is now available in Malawi through the TNM and Airtel Malawi. The project is an initiative by Facebook to…

Social media, iPhones and the death of photojournalism [Infographic]

Aah, citizen journalism and social media… the trends that have professional photojournalists clutching their Nikons in fear. Well, kinda. The power of social media…

South African academic sparks racism in cricket debate on Facebook

A row involving cricket, racism and a top South African academic has broken out on Facebook. After South Africa defeated New Zealand by six…

Timeline for brands is here. Now they have to make a hard decision

So, Timeline is here for brands. It’s a good day. Lots of things to pin, star and more! Fantastic! But in this “everything’s a…

Facebook rolls out mobile ads

Facebook’s decision to roll out Timeline to brand pages was pretty big news, but its decision to include ads on its mobile offering could…

Orange threatens to leave emerging markets

Mobile operating giant Orange has threatened to pull out of emerging markets if it does not meet two important targets. Orange’s Executive Vice President…

Facebook rolls out new brand pages, includes Timeline

Timeline was big news when it landed on all our individual profiles, even if it took a long time to roll out to everyone….

Yahoo! joins the patent wars, sets its sights on Facebook

Yahoo! claims that Facebook is infringing on between 10 and 20 of its patents — and if the social networking site doesn’t pay licensing…

5 Factors that could be very dangerous to a post-IPO Facebook

As part of the preparations for its looming IPO, Facebook has to disclose in its SEC filing some risk factors which could materially and…

New record for Skype as 34M people use it concurrently

Have you ever taken a moment in the middle of Skype conversation to think how many people might be using the service at exactly…

Britney Spears becomes first person to go past 2M Google+ followers

Britney Spears can lay claim to her second Google+ record after becoming the first person to go past the two-million follower mark. Perhaps more…

Indonesia hits 1M LinkedIn users, grows faster than Facebook

Indonesia has the third largest Facebook population of any country on earth, but growth on the social network in the country is being eclipsed…

If your Facebook store failed, don’t blame Facebook, blame yourself.

I worryingly read a slew of articles over the weekend about the shuttering of numerous big-brand F-commerce sites. My issue with most of these…

Facebook (finally) allows verified accounts

Facebook will start allowing public figures to verify their accounts and include pseudonyms from today, according to a report by TechCrunch. This means that…

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