Category: Facebook
Facebook Messenger finally comes to iPad
Yesterday afternoon without much fanfare Facebook snuck out an update to its Facebook Messenger app, which finally brings the chat client to iPad. The Messenger client, which has proved controversial, has been available on iPhone for some time now -…
Facebook buys video ad firm LiveRail
Facebook has bought online video advertising platform LiveRail for a reported $500m (£292m), the Daily Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says that the San Francisco-based company's technology automatically pairs video ads with the videos that appear on many websites, such as…
Facebook faces UK probe into 'unethical' emotion study
Facebook is being investigated to assess whether an experiment in which it manipulated users' news feeds to study the effect it had on moods might have broken data protection laws, The Register has reported. The Information Commissioner's Office is said…
Facebook defends super-creepy psychological newsfeed study
Over the weekend it emerged that last year Facebook carried out a study in 2012 on the impact of its news feed algorithms on the emotions of users… by deliberately manipulating their news feeds. Now the engineer behind it has…
Oculus buy the company that designed Xbox 360 controller
Oculus VR, the company behind the Oculus Rift VR headset, which itself was recently acquired by Facebook has just bought a rather interesting company itself. It seems the Facebook cash is turning out to be very useful. According to Bit-Tech,…
5 things to do when Facebook is down
1) Actually do some work Start with the obvious. Remember the reason you came into the office in the first place? It wasn't to sit at a desk and silently judge the people you used to go to school with….
BREAKING: Facebook goes down – world productivity soars [Updated: Appears to be fixed]
Facebook went down for ten minutes this morning, to the horror of public transport commuters and office slackers everywhere. Here's what is currently visible if you try to go to Facebook: Horrifyingly, this does mean that for the first time…
Here's why Facebook Slingshot is highly likely to fail.
Last night Facebook unveiled its latest attempt at taking on the young upstart that is Snapchat. The ephemeral messaging service has become wildly successful, taking on millions of users… especially young people.. and taking them outside of Facebook's sphere of…
Facebook is watching you – but soon you will be able to control how it uses that data
Have you ever wondered why Facebook showed you that advertisement for a new flatscreen TV, or a cheap flight to Bermuda? Soon you will be able to find out. Facebook has announced that it will soon give its users, starting…