Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a standalone messaging app that lets kids under 13 chat with friends and family approved by their parents, on iOS in the US
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Brett Williams / Mashable : Facebook Messenger went down worldwide Chris Smith / BGR : The Messenger Kids app is a brilliantly devious Facebook scheme Jeffrey Esposito / ...
Facebook Launches a Big Ad Campaign for Facebook Live, With User Videos at the Core
Facebook Live is a big, important product for the world's biggest social network. But up to now, many users still don't really know what Live is, or how to use it. Or they might be intimidated by li...
Facebook testing “Discover” feature for Groups on iOS and Android to simplify finding Groups by category
Facebook Launches ‘Discover’ For Groups To Help You Find More Relevant Connections — More than 1 billion people use Facebook Groups every month.
Facebook launches Messenger platform with chatbots
Facebook users will soon be able … Mike Rosenbaum / salesforce.com : Introducing Salesforce for Messenger Al Plumlier / The Verge : There will be a bot for everything — It's all happening at once … ...
Facebook's app install ads can now deep link to information in an app opened for the first time
Facebook Launches In-App Purchase Install Ads — Facebook is combining its lucrative app install ads with deep linking so a specific in-app purchase page opens once the app downloads.
Facebook Creative Labs releases Android dialer Hello with robust caller ID, call blocking, and local business search
Billions of calls are made everyday … Eric David / SiliconANGLE : Facebook's “Hello” app is a social media caller ID and phone dialer Darren Orf / Gizmodo : Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phon...
Facebook Launches “Nearby Friends” With Opt-In Real-Time Location Sharing To Help You Meet Up
Today Facebook begins rolling out a new opt-in feature called Nearby Friends. It lets friends see approximately how far away you are from them, and you can share your exact, on-going location with th...
Facebook Launches Verified Accounts and Pseudonyms
Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of thei...
Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins
We're creatures of habit. We go where we've already gone. That's why Facebook's new Suggested Events feature I just discovered is so powerful — it knows where we've been thanks to our checkins.
Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor
Hot on the heels of bringing Instant Personalization to Clicker last week, today Facebook is announcing the latest addition to the program: TripAdvisor. The popular travel site, which includes user r...