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A global effort to make Internet access affordable for everyone or a plan for world domination: Whatever your take is on Facebook's Internet.org initiative, you'll find Facebook's detailed plan an enlightening read.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may help nudge congressional leaders to pass an immigration reform bill before the end of the year.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and CEO of the social media giant, wants more people to be on the internet. In fact, he wants to help about 5 billion people in developing countries to get in on the internet economy (which of course, includes Facebook).
Facebook friends of Derek Medina were greeted with a gruesome photo on their news feed last Thursday. Moments after shooting her wife dead, the South Florida man posted a photo of her bleeding body on the social networking site.
Facebook has certainly shown an interest, if not in becoming an RSS reader as it was previously rumored to be working on, then becoming a new, more uniquely Facebook-kind of news source for its users. Finally revealing some details on how it ranks items in the News Feed Tuesday, the social media giant began on Wednesday testing "Trending Topics" on a small portion of its vast network.
Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was relatively quiet, except for one company: Facebook stole the show. Along with finally converting its entire site to secure HTTP, the company also rolled out embedded posts, moved some Facebook Home features to its main app, and may start rolling out 15-second ads.
On Tuesday, Facebook announced that it was expanding its mobile empire with Facebook Mobile Games Publishing. The company's new pilot program intends to help small developers promote games for Facebook, as well as grow the social media network's huge mobile portfolio.
This week in social media, Facebook surprised investors with great returns and growing mobile revenue, Pinterest announced you can opt out of being tracked, and hackers attacked Instagram users with smoothies. Yes, really.
Facebook, Inc. surprised Wall Street and silenced its critics Wednesday, as its second quarter earnings report showed stronger than expected earnings, led by Facebook's mobile platform.
Facebook announced Sunday that 100 million people have downloaded a little app called "Facebook for Every Phone," which is designed for feature phones. For developing countries, where smartphones are not an option yet, this app has been huge.
Just days after Microsoft denied extensively working with the National Security Agency and personally called on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to allow for more disclosure and transparency, a large swatch of the technology industry has sent a letter to President Obama asking him for more transparency from the United States, when it comes to the NSA's surveillance program, Prism.
Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was all about including everyone in the most up to date versions of various social networking platforms.
Nokia’s launch of the Lumia 1020 has the tech community talking, from its design, smartphone specifications, and notably the 41-megapixel camera.
In January of this year, Facebook announced a revamped version of the site's search tool, called Graph Search. Until this week, Graph Search has been in a limited public beta test. But starting Monday July 8, and for the next few weeks, Facebook will finally be rolling out the new feature for all English-speaking Facebook users in the United States.
On Monday, two new reader alternatives appeared to take the helm once Google drops its popular Reader off the face of the Earth and out of our lives on July 1. AOL has effectively announced that it is launching "AOL Reader," and at the same time, an anonymously sourced report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Facebook might be introducing its own mobile news reader soon.
