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Facebook Is Asking INEC To Use Its Platform To Educate Nigerian Voters

Preparation for the 2019 elections appear to be in full swing and you can see because everyone has their methods for trying to 'help' the process along. Even the giant of social media giants, Facebook has offered its platform to Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for voter … Read More

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Snapchat’s rise from obscure app to Facebook rival charted in How To Turn Down A Billion Dollars

Snapchat is the great dividing line in the social media ecosystem: the old, with their fuddy-duddy Facebook, don't understand it and do not use it; the young, with their selfies and sexting, have taken to it with alacrity, their daily usage figures far exceeding that of any other app. Read …

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Facebook’s Flick Is Fast. Here’s Why You Should Care.

In January, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced that it had finished developing a new product. It wasn't a new social network, nor was it a new feature on any of its existing services. In fact, this new "product" was a departure from anything the company had done before: a new unit …

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Facebook has big plans to bring internet to more people in rural areas

Over the past few years, Facebook has been rolling out several initiatives to bring free internet to people in underdeveloped areas all around the world. That includes things like Terragraph, a millimeter-wave wireless technology that not only serves connectivity but does so in speedy form — it runs on the … …

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Vero has one key feature that’s missing from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

Instagram and Facebook both show posts they think you will like at the top of your feed, rather than organising them chronologically. Snapchat recently introduced a similar mechanism in its controversial update whilst Twitter does the same, although its feed is closer to chronological than its competitors. Read More

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Facebook says it has no interest in monetizing the Telecom Infra Project

Facebook, the social network giant with over 2 billion monthly users, has made a big effort to expand its business by doubling down on one of the big bottlenecks in the world of data: expensive and bad connectivity. And today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the company unveiled a …

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Seychelle Media is Selected for Facebook Messenger Case Study

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 26, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital marketing innovator Seychelle Media has already earned the confidence of Facebook, Inc., qualifying Seychelle Media as a respected Facebook Agency Partner. Now the team at Seychelle Media, recognized for its skilled and … Read More

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Facebook makes it impossible to truly leave

Every time, Facebook would address me by my first name, like a concerned mentor, often from different eight-digit numbers, sometimes multiple times per day. Even when I was out of the country, in a wildly different timezone, Facebook found a way to optimize those texts to send during daylight hours. …

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How people are using Facebook’s ‘crisis response’ to offer help after Leicester explosion

Residents living near to the incident, in Hinckley Road, also used the Facebook page to offer food and drink to the emergency services. Clothing, shelter, food and baby supplies were offered to the people forced to leave their homes, after the explosion and flames reduced a shop and flats above …

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Facebook yanks violent Epic Games virtual reality video – but you can still watch it

To cap the killing spree, the bullet-filled virtual reality demo video from Cary-based Epic Games shows the player taking out a drone. Facebook made the video part of its Oculus Rift virtual reality demo at the conservative group Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on Friday – and … Read More