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Facebook to circumvent ad-blocking software on desktop, because ‘choice’

Whether it’s due to aesthetics, data usage or horrible ads in general, ad-blocking software is only gaining steam these days. The trend has however seen…

3 quick tips for brands to get the most out of Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger allows consumers to easily open a dialogue with the companies. Both Messenger and Facebook — as the social network — are becoming…

Facebook Messenger now has one billion monthly users worldwide

Facebook Messenger has hit the one-billion monthly active user milestone, just two months after reaching 900-million monthly active users. The announcement sees two Facebook-owned…

Neymar vs Mark Zuckerberg: it’s the Facebook Messenger keepy-uppy challenge

Don’t look now folks, but celebrities are now challenging one other to something that doesn’t involve ice water — the Keepy Uppy Challenge. Based…

Facebook’s latest diversity report shows intent, little transformation

Facebook has released its latest batch of diversity data to shed light on the race and gender demographic of its workforce. Facebook has been…

More than a fad: the numbers behind Snapchat’s remarkable growth

Snapchat is a social media monster. From its relatively humble beginnings in 2012, to its current almost-super massive status among millennials, the app is…

Facebook Messenger gains WhatsApp-like encrypted chat

Online privacy and protection of sensitive content is in the fore this week on social media, especially in the wake of the livestreamed shooting…

Single? Lonely? Here’s how to get a fake Facebook girlfriend

This is sad, desperately sad. A Brazilian company is helping all the lonely hearts out there on Facebook create perfect, but completely fake, girlfriends….

Facebook tests voice calling in Messenger

This is interesting. Facebook has begun testing a feature in its Messenger app that will allow people to make free voice calls using Wi-Fi…

Will Facebook’s split from Zynga see it make its own games?

Things have been strained between Facebook and social gaming giant Zynga for a while. Now it looks like they’re making the split official. The…

Facebook gets 72 hours to remove paedophile monitoring page

A Northern Irish man, who is a convicted sex offender, has won a court order, forcing the removal of a Facebook page designed to…

Tajikistan government officially outlaws Facebook in the country

In an order given yesterday by the Tajikistan Office of Telecommunications, all internet service and mobile providers have blocked public access to Facebook. This…

Facebook users to vote on whether they get to vote on social network changes

More than 18 000 people have commented on Facebook’s proposed changes to its governing documents. That enough to trigger a vote on the proposed…

Facebook to change its governing policies, lets you comment but not vote

Facebook is proposing updates to its governing documents and it’s asking its users to have their say. The documents explain how the social network…

Facebook and Yahoo! are discussing a search deal… or not?

Yahoo! chief Marissa Meyer has reportedly been in talks with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg over how the two companies can work more closely. According…

Is Facebook really broken on purpose?

No, this is not a badly timed April fool’s joke… Facebook has “intentionally” broken its platform. Ok, that was a little hyperbolic, but only…

Anonymous does an ‘Assange’ on Zynga — leaks confidential documents

Anonymous, the loosely associated hacktivist collective, has put Zynga under its scope. And it’s looking serious. Zynga laid off employees just before releasing its…

Send your Facebook profile to Cape Town with this awesome campaign

This is potentially very cool. It’s a new campaign that lets you send your Facebook profile on a dream holiday — that you could…

Did Facebook steal Timeline? This Chinese social network thinks so

The Chinese online space is renowned for its clones of Western social media sites, but at least one company thinks copying goes the other…

Three more top Facebook execs leave

It was bound to happen. Three more top Facebook executives have left the massive social network. The latest employees to exit the company in…

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