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Mark Zuckerberg ‘disappointed’ by SpaceX explosion, loss of Africa satellite

In the wake of the SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion that rocked Cape Canaveral yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a response on Facebook. SpaceX…

Update: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral

Update 2: 2 September, 7.44pm: SpaceX shed more light on the incident, saying the “anomaly originated around the upper stage oxygen tank” and happened…

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg visits Nigeria in African knowledge quest

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is currently on a business trip to Africa, according to his Facebook page. Zuckerberg stopped over in Nigeria, Facebook‘s largest…

WhatsApp to swap personal info with Facebook, here’s how to disable it

WhatsApp has announced a change of terms of service that will allow it to share your personal information with Facebook. It’s the first change…

Facebook’s Lifestage is a teen-centric sharing app developed by a teen

Social networking giant Facebook this past weekend announced an all new social networking app for teenagers. Dubbed Lifestage, the app is made for 21-year-olds…

Facebook gets a dash of LinkedIn with ‘professional skills’ update

Facebook has added a new feature that allows you to add your professional skills to your profile. The feature, first noticed by Sociobits, mirrors…

Cape Town Fish Market puts up unfortunate dolphin, sushi FB post

It’s no secret that the Cape Town Fish Market — a South African-based chain of seafood restaurants — hasn’t been having the greatest time…

Samsung’s Gear, NYTimes hacked and Miley’s twerking: #StuffToKnow on the web this week

Not a massive week on the web this time, most of the attention went to the gyrations of a pop singer and the ongoing…

Facebook spammers net $200m a year just from posting scam links

If you’ve ever wondered how anyone could benefit from posting those spammy links that end up clogging up your Facebook news feed, prepare to…

Facebook no longer requires 3rd party apps to run competitions, promotions

Some social media managers will be rejoicing at this news, while other might have a few big reservations. Facebook has changed the rules governing…

Facebook launches new photo colab feature

This is an idea so obviously good that you’ve got to wonder why it took Facebook so long to come up with it. The…

Mark Zuckerberg’s call for global internet access needs A/B testing

Mark Zuckerberg’s call for an industry-wide effort to bring internet connectivity to billions of the world’s poorest is framed in the context of a…

Mark Zuckerberg lays out plan to connect the next 5-billion

Looks like Mark Zuckerberg’s been stealing peeks at the Google play book. The founder and CEO of the billion-strong social network today announced “rough”…

Instagram bans 3rd party apps from using terms ‘Insta’ and ‘Gram’

If you’ve got a third-party app that posts images to Instagram, then you’d best hope your name doesn’t contain the words “Insta” or “Gram”….

Facebook: Zuckerberg exploit was our bad…sorta

If you were trying to alert Facebook to a problem, but weren’t getting through to anyone what would you do? You could ask to…

You might be unhappy on Facebook but Asians most definitely aren’t

Facebook has been seeing explosive growth in Asia. I think that’s driven by two things: Asia has the largest young population in the world,…

Facebook really makes you sad, even academics say so

Facebook makes you sad. You might’ve suspected it for a while now, especially if your friends always seem to be gallivanting in some exotic…

Facebook apparently readying PayPal competitor, aiming at mobile purchases

Facebook is apparently testing a payments product that will allow users to make purchases on online apps by using their login to the social…

Meet Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower [Video]

The tech world has been rocked by allegations that tech giants such as Google and Facebook were supplying US intelligence agency, the NSA with…

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The Viral Trump-Musk AI Video: Power, Politics, and Absurdity

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Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

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