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Facebook launches interactive full-screen ads called Canvas

Facebook launches interactive full-screen ads called Canvas At an event in New York today, Facebook launched its newest product for marketers: interactive mobile ads called Canvas, which it first announced back in September. Canvas is an evolution of the earlier Carousel ads, which allowed users to swipe through multiple product or brand photos if they

Facebook’s ‘Birthday Video Cam’ nudges you to say something more than HBD

Facebook’s ‘Birthday Video Cam’ nudges you to say something more than HBD Facebook is practically king at reminding you when your friends are celebrating their birthdays, pushing you to say hi and wish them well. Today, the company will now encourage you to leave a video — with the ‘Birthday Video Cam.’ When you access your Facebook

90% of Facebook’s daily active users access it via mobile

90% of Facebook’s daily active users access it via mobile Facebook just released financial results for Q4 of 2015, and one number starts out in particular: 934 million mobile daily active users (DAUs). Sure, 0.9 billion might not sound quite as impressive as the 1.04 billion total daily users, but we already knew the company had

Facebook users now watch 100 million hours of video every day

Facebook users now watch 100 million hours of video every day During its Q4 earnings call today, Facebook revealed some interesting stats for video usage on its platform. Mark Zuckerberg explained that users now watch 100 million hours of video daily on the platform. In light of this, he said the company is working on creating

Facebook now has a place for sports fans to trash talk their friends over live updates

Facebook now has a place for sports fans to trash talk their friends over live updates acebook has launched Sports Stadium, a new feature that pulls in live sports scores and play-by-play updates, game info as well as posts and comments from your friends and experts. The social network will now display updates and stats

Facebook’s new tools for publishers help target the news to your interests

Facebook’s new tools for publishers help target the news to your interests A new tool for publishers out of Facebook today seeks to help cut through the noise by offering a way to target individuals through their interests. When a site shares a story, they’re able to tag it via a new ‘preferred audience’ option,

How Facebook made streaming virtual reality video possible

How Facebook made streaming virtual reality video possible Facebook has a huge focus on video these days, encouraging everyone to upload more video and rewarding them in kind with wider views, engagement and shares. It’s also focused on making video better, especially in the realm of virtual reality, where file sizes can get big and

Facebook test adds multiple news feeds for different topics on mobile

Facebook test adds multiple news feeds for different topics on mobile If you use one of Facebook’s mobile apps, you might have come across something odd: multiple news feeds for various different topics. The change (first spotted by Jason Stein) is a follow up to an earlier test on the Web, and allows you to pull up

Student arrested on Fake Facebook Profile in Karachi

Student arrested on Fake Facebook Profile in Karachi Karachi: Fake social media accounts and torturing through these accounts is rapidly increasing and Pakistani media has reported several such type of cases. But now Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started taking serious actions on this crime. According to the report of popular English newspaper of Pakistan,

Facebook’s 2015 Year in Review lets you weed out the bad memories

Facebook’s 2015 Year in Review lets you weed out the bad memories It’s that time of the year again: Facebook has launched its 2015 Year in Review tool, and this around it’s giving you a bit more control. As with previous years, the tool recaps what Facebook thinks were your highlights of the year –