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Facebook is reportedly facing a class-action lawsuit where refunds from the social media platform for parents after their children spent their money on Facebook games without permission. The lawsuit is to do with children playing Facebook games where they spend money on in-game purchases by using … [Read more...]
Next Tuesday 17 March 2015 is St Patrick's Day, where people get together to celebrate by going to a parade, attending céilithe, drinks lots of Guinness, Whiskey and Irish Bear, and of course wear shamrocks and huge hats. Now is your chance to join in the festive fun by using Facebook … [Read more...]
Facebook is to turn off FriendFeed for good, and from April 9, 2015 users will no longer be able to discuss or discover any interesting stuff you friends find on the Internet. It looks like it was a waste of time purchasing FriendFeed in 2009 where Facebook paid $50 million for it. The reason … [Read more...]
New research in the form of an infographic titled The “Bleisure” Revolution – How Tech Giants are shaping the workplace of tomorrow’ is rather interesting indeed. It shows Facebook, Google, Twitter embracing the concept of Bleisure. Thank to Edel Mahony, the marketing executive of a company … [Read more...]
15,416 supporters have signed a petition with 9,584 needed to reach a 25,000 goal to ban the Facebook ‘Feeling Fat’ removal. Over on Facebook you can select many different feelings such as better, amazed, full, low, free and many more, but the one in question for its removal is ‘FAT’. So when … [Read more...]
What better way is the to praise your wife? Mark Zuckerberg decided to share his gratitude for his wife Priscilla Chan to his 31,596,898 followers on his personal Facebook wall. Mark Zuckerberg said he was very proud of his wife Priscilla Chan; he goes on to say they first met at Harvard where … [Read more...]
A recent study by Havas Media and Crowd Emotion found that only 20 percent of branded content posts appearing on Facebook generated any emotional response. When emotion is key to consumer connection to a brand, this seems to spell doom for social media marketers. But marketers don’t have to … [Read more...]
As a social media conglomerate with troves of consumer data, Facebook is about to make a huge play in the social media space. (Watch out, Jack Dorsey.) Consider Facebook’s recent announcement to publicly drop more than half of its partners, a total of 15 companies from its Facebook Exchange … [Read more...]
Facebook seems to be having a few problems today, OSM readers are reporting slow loading issues today March 4, and are not happy at all. Majority of users are saying the same thing where their Facebook page seems to be rather slow and in worst cases not loading at all. Even though the … [Read more...]
Has Facebook took a leaf out of Alan Turing’s book and created a test similar to his? Yes is the answer so to speak because there is a new Facebook AI test for true intelligence. This is a test developed at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence where there are 20 questions, which do get … [Read more...]
The new-ish Facebook game Fruit Land has topped 1 million players and is now sitting at the top of the charts. It is taking the number one slot in the ‘Top Games’ section in Facebook Games at the time of publishing this. In a way, Fruit Land is very much like Candy Crush but has more of an … [Read more...]
When you visit Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account his last post on MWC 2015 is winning the hearts of the public, but the founder even though on hostile grounds did his best at easing spiteful debates. He spoke to executives at the Barcelona event to try and win the hearts and help of those there to … [Read more...]
A video shared on Facebook reportedly showing police shooting a homeless man, in the video it is alleged the man was homeless and after a scuffle the Los Angeles police shot him. The disturbing and graphic video was posted on this Facebook page (Please be aware very strong language can be heard … [Read more...]
Facebook is a great social media tool for communicating with others, promoting your brand or business and so much more. But now and then social networks can be full of dark things, but now Facebook wants to help those in need of comfort, a somewhat shoulder to lean on. To do this they are rolling … [Read more...]
There are millions of hackers in the world and majority want to bring a service down, or wage a war to prove they can hurt. But thanks to the Facebook bug bounty program the social media network has paid out millions of dollars to what people known as 'white hat' hackers. In 2014 alone bounties … [Read more...]
Facebook’s active advertisers rose to a staggering 2 million, which is a massive 33% increase on its 2014 July number at 1.5 million. But when you compare this to Google’s piece of the advertisers estimate market share they sat at 31.1%, but this is a drop from its 33.6% share in 2013. When you … [Read more...]
The F8: Facebook Developer Conference schedule for 2015 is now here. Taking place at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA between Wednesday March 25 and Thursday 26 you know you will have an epic event on your hands. It will be all about getting together and creating a few moments of … [Read more...]
Facebook is apparently not conforming in the right manner when it comes to its ‘privacy policy’, the latest news reports the social media giants are in violation of European law even thought they updated its privacy policy. As reported by the Guardian, the Belgian privacy commission has found … [Read more...]
Could Facebook be a threat to estate agents and real estate sellers? Sharing on Facebook to sell a property could slowly start to diminish the amount to estate agents around the world. They charge a percentage to sell your property yet one man offers $10,000 to anyone that shares his post. Even … [Read more...]
If you love games and you also like to play on Facebook, you will want know about the return of a classic learning game. Math Blaster is back, but this time it is playable on Facebook with new minigames and online multiplayer feature. You can now play Math Blaster on a top of the range computer … [Read more...]
Instagram is a valuable asset to Facebook and thanks to the social media giants owning the photo / video sharing app FB’sshares were up by a staggering 3.53 percent and closing at $76.71in Thursday's trading. According to Director and Senior Equity Research Analyst: Internet and New Media at … [Read more...]
Social media network Facebook has always been the dominant around the world, especially in the UK. But, a new report in the form of an infographic has been released showing Facebook has slipped a little whilst Instagram climbs when it comes to usage. Data from GlobalWebIndex profiles both … [Read more...]
Today is Chinese Lunar New Year 2015 and celebrations around the world are taking place, as we all know the Chinese New Year always surrounds animals, in 2014 it was Year of the Horse, but this year there seems to be somewhat of a confusion as to what the animal is in 2015. Chinese New Year … [Read more...]
President of the United States Barack Obama is a social media genius, ok he did get the help Buzzfeed but it shows how sharing a video Facebook can make all the difference in making it work or making it flop. The video below has gone viral and even though it was first mentioned on Feb 12, yes 7 … [Read more...]
Facebook is apparently rolling out a new hashtag feature that will work just like the Google +1 button found over on Google Plus. This will allow Facebook users to view posts with a specific hashtag. Twitter, Instagram and just about most social media platforms use hashtags, but many believe that … [Read more...]
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