Facebook’s Messenger Lite app now includes video chat
Facebook just made it a little easier to video chat with your friends. The social-networking titan on Wednesday unveiled a video chat feature for its Messenger Lite app. The Lite version of Messenger is slimmed down to run better on older Android devices and in areas where there are slower …
‘Have Positive, Real World Impact.’ Why Facebook Is Redesigning Data for Social Good
Facebook's (fb, +2.15%) announcement of dramatic changes to its News Feed to prioritize “meaningful social interactions” — meaning fewer public posts and paid ads, and more photos of friends and family — has drawn concern from companies and brands that rely on the platform to reach their … Read More
BlackBerry is suing Facebook for infringing its patents
The Canadian ex-phone maker claims that the social network has co-opted its innovations. The news: CNBC reports that BlackBerry is suing Facebook and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp and Instagram, for infringing patents covering things like message notifications and image tagging. The response: … Read More
Facebook Blocks Hungarian Minister’s ‘Whites’ vs. Migrants Video
Facebook removed the video on Wednesday, saying it violated its principles forbidding comments that attack people based on their racial, ethnic or religious identity. The video was part of an escalating anti-immigrant campaign by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party ahead of parliamentary … Read More
Facebook looks for a musical boost
The deals could set the stage for Facebook to become a major host of music videos, pitting it against Google-owned YouTube. This is likely to be welcomed by advertisers, who would have little reason to worry about having their advertising appearing next to offensive content in mainstream music videos … Read …
Facebook Messenger Lite adds video chat
Facebook's Messenger Lite app for Android is getting video chat, adding the final feature the slimmed-down app needed to become a truly viable replacement for the full-featured Messenger. It's an addition that more or less makes Messenger Lite the perfect Facebook Messenger app. Cutting away all … Read More
You Can and Should Hide Your Facebook and Twitter Likes
Let's start with the Facebook one: head to the installation page in Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, and follow the instructions. The next time you load up Facebook in your browser, you'll notice some changes: You can see if you have new messages, friend requests, and notifications, for example, but not …
The Morning After: BlackBerry sues Facebook
The lawsuit impacts Facebook, Instagram as well as WhatsApp. BlackBerry sues Facebook for violating messaging patents. BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit in a Los Angeles Federal Court against Facebook for infringing the patent on its messaging technology. The lawsuit calls out Facebook, WhatsApp as … Read More
BlackBerry takes all of Facebook’s instant messaging apps to court
Like seeing that tiny number that adorns an instant messaging app on your iPhone or Android to tell you that you've got incoming messages? How about muting annoying groups that you can't just leave without everyone else noticing? Love the fact that most mobile chat apps nowadays apps are … Read …
What took you so long, BlackBerry? Facebook BBM suit is way overdue
Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 for $19bn, or $45 for every user's address book (the intrusive app rummages through your contacts many thousand times a week). BlackBerry's lawsuit covers not just Facebook's eponymous home-grown Messenger but Instagram too. Today WhatsApp has 1.2 … Read More