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Facebook now provides 70 gender options to choose from in the UK
The social network recently introduced over 20 new gender options in the UK in a bid ‘to reflect society’.
Facebook rejigs its Android app for emerging countries as it targets the next 5 billion
With the latest overhaul, Facebook Android app is now 65 percent smaller and consumers 50 percent less data.
Facebook changes default audience to ‘Friends’
Facebook thinks about its users’ privacy.
Facebook is trying to refine news feeds
Keeping with the promise it made last summer, Facebook is gearing up with new ways to filter out spammy posts from the users’ news feeds. By spammy posts, Facebook means the posts…
Facebook hits 100 million user milestone in India
Facebook has announced that it has hit the 100 million user milestone in India, the second country after US to have reached the 100 million mark. The company claimed its Indian user…
Stanford scientists develop tool that predicts virality of photos on Facebook
A recent report claims that a group of Stanford computer researchers have developed an algorithm which can predict if a photo will go ‘viral’ on Facebook. Stanford researchers said that the rate…
Google+ adds page view counts to user profile page
Google today announced that it is adding an interesting update to Google+ in order to boost the social network’s popularity. As part of the update, the new ‘total content views’ feature will…
375 million people play Facebook connected games each month
Facebook, on Monday, at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco revealed that around 375 million people on an average play Facebook-connected games each month, across both desktop and mobile. According to…
Facebook brings Pages design in line with member profiles
Facebook is rolling out a more simple Pages design this week thereby enabling people to find information they want while helping Page admins to find tools easily. “This week, we’ll begin rolling…
China blames VPN, other internet censorship technologies for terrorism in the country
A Chinese official, Zhang Chunxian, has claimed that virtual private network (VPN) and other such internet censorship technologies are responsible for fueling violence and terrorism in the country suggesting that China may…
Facebook Messenger to land on Windows Phone within ‘weeks’
Windows Phone, the third largest mobile operating platform in the world, didn’t have a dedicated Facebook Messenger app, but that is about to change as Microsoft has revealed during a press conference…
LinkedIn member blocking feature rolled out
LinkedIn has announced availability of one of the most requested feature on the professional networking site – member blocking – giving users one more tool to protect their online privacy on the…
Pinterest mobile website undergoes revamp
With an aim to expand its global presence, Pinterest, has been taking a lot of steps recently and the latest one is the revamp of its mobile site. Pinterest recently updated its…
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s 10th birthday: ‘We just cared more’
The ten year old journey, which started with founding of Facebook on February 4, 2004, has been ‘extremely amazing’, said Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of the world’s biggest social network….