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Why Facebook cares so much about India
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may have built his business in the U.S., but it’s India that has arguably become his most important focus. Zuckerberg on Wednesday spent time at his latest trip to India...
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Why Twitter’s ‘Favorite’ Star Button is Now a Heart-Shaped ‘Like’
As it continues its quest to become a more widely-used product, Twitter is trading its iconic "favorite" star button used to "like" tweets for a heart-shaped one. Though the company has had the yellow...
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Twitter ‘Hearts’ New Users
Twitter’s latest attempt to please antsy Wall Street investors involves a small, yet substantial design tweak. The microblogging network has ditched “stars” and “favorites” in favor of “likes” and...
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Facebook Is Testing Disappearing Messages
Facebook is testing disappearing messages, ? la Snapchat, in its Messenger app in France, the company confirmed on Thursday. The new feature, first spotted by BuzzFeed, lets users choose to have their...
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Twitter Is Testing More Emojis for Reactions
Not happy with Twitter’s recent move to “like” tweets with a heart instead of “faving” them with a star? You might be able to take your pick from whatever emoji you want as it seems Twitter TWTR is...
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Google+ isn’t Dead…Yet
Remember Google+, the hotly awaited social network that failed to become a true rival for Facebook? Well it’s gotten an entirely new look and purpose, Google said on Tuesday. After spending years...
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Facebook Safety Check Activated After Nigerian Bombing
The Facebook Safety Check feature went into effect on Tuesday following a bomb explosion in Nigeria. The blast occurred in the northeastern city of Yola and killed at least 31 people while injuring...
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How Instagram Raised its Tech Game
When Instagram first debuted in 2010, one single server powered the photo-sharing service. Now, after being bought by Facebook in 2012, Instagram runs from its parent’s massive data centers containing...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Take Two Months Paternity Leave
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take time off from leading the social network so he can be with his newborn child. In a Facebook FB post on Friday, Zuckerberg wrote that he's taking two months of...
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Facebook Is Expanding Free Internet in India
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on a quest to bring Internet access to everyone on the planet. “We just took another step towards connecting India,” Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook FB profile...
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Is LinkedIn’s Mobile App Redesign Too Little, Too Late?
LinkedIn’s mobile app has an entirely new design, and I like it. But that might not matter in the end. The social network, or "Facebook for your professional life" as many have called it, gave its...
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Facebook Just Added Support for the iPhone’s Coolest Feature
Photos on Facebook are about to become a whole lot more interesting with the addition of Apple’s Live Photos, a new image format that’s somewhere between a static photo and an ultra-short video. On...
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Facebook Bans 175-Year-Old Pub Over ‘Offensive’ Name: Report
Facebook has suspended a U.K.-based pub’s social-media account over “racist or offensive language,” a report claims. In Nov., Lee Garrett, the manager of the 175-year-old Blackcock Inn, received a...
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Facebook’s Free Internet App Shut Down in Egypt
Free Basics, Facebook’s controversial service that provides users with free access to select websites on mobile, is in trouble in a yet another country. On Wednesday, the service was shut down in Egypt...
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Report: Twitter Is Planning to Stretch Tweets to 10,000 Characters Soon
This story has been corrected and updated. See below. Move aside, tweetstorm--here comes the… tweet. That’s right: following earlier rumors, Twitter TWTR is reportedly getting closer to releasing a...
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Twitter May Have a New Suitor
Twitter, the still popular but financially challenged microblogging service, could be acquired. But questions abound over whether (and how) that could actually happen. Noted venture capitalist Marc...
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Is It Too Late to Go Back to the Twitter That Might Have Been?
No matter what benchmark you look at, Twitter seems to be in a bad way. It’s true that revenue has been growing at the world’s favorite real-time information service, but that’s about the only thing...
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Exclusive: Nextdoor Expands to First Market Outside U.S.
More than four years after launching in the United States, Nextdoor, the social networking site for neighbors, is finally expanding abroad. But you'll never guess where they're launching first--unless...
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Your Birthday Wish to a Facebook Friend Can Now Be a Video
Facebook is turning up the dial on birthday wishes. On Monday, the social network introduced a new way for users to wish a happy birthday to their friends: via a 15-second video they can record. The...
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Oculus Co-Founder Doesn’t Think Facebook Is the Future of VR
In 2014, Facebook shelled out $2 billion to acquire Oculus, then a two-year-old startup with a few million in the bank from a crowdfunding campaign and venture capitalists, and big dreams of changing...
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