Facebook has always put an emphasis on making people use their real names, but in the face of popular upstart apps that put an emphasis on anonymous sharing, it looks like the social network could be changing its ways. The company will apparently launch a new standalone app with a focus on anonymity in the next few weeks, according to a report from The New York Times. The new app has...
Facebook already knows pretty much everything about you. Heck, the company’s even admitted to playing with some people’s emotions just to see what might happen. One bit of data the social networking giant still doesn’t know is how much money you spend, but it looks like the company is working on an interesting new financial management app that could make you feel really good (or really...
Facebook announced its second quarter 2014 earnings on Wednesday after the bell. The company reported an earnings per share of 42 cents on revenue of $2.91 billion, crushing Wall Street expectations of 32 cents EPS on $2.81 billion in revenue. Looks like any doubters in the social network can rest their fears for now. Here are the highlights Facebook published for the quarter: Daily...
Facebook added a new feature for iOS, Android and the web today in a bid to take on increasingly popular services like Pocket, Instapaper and Readability that are designed to help you save longer articles for later reading. The new “Save” feature is built right into Facebook’s News Feed and lets you save articles and other links within the app. The company actually tested a similar...
Facebook introduced a new feature on Thursday that may change how you use the social network forever. The company is testing a new feature that allows users to buy goods from businesses directly on the site. See an ad for a pair of sunglasses you like pass through the News Feed? Tap buy and you can purchase it right from your mobile device. This is particularly important for Facebook,...
Facebook recently introduced a new feature to its iPhone app in an attempt to encourage you to use the social network as a video discovery tool. TechCrunch first spotted the new “related videos” carousel over the weekend and Facebook confirmed the update soon afterward, calling it a test. The new video interface works a lot like YouTube, offering up a handful of related videos along...
Facebook's 2012 psychological experiment on users has drawn staunch criticism and even a response from an independent regulator in the U.K. that will investigate the legality of the company's practices, and now executives are speaking out. Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg now says that the experiment was poorly communicated. "This was part of ongoing research...
Facebook on Wednesday announced that it has acquired a company called LiveRail, a firm that, as described by Facebook, helps content creators publish "better ads in the videos that appear on their websites and apps." It's probably not a bad business move. Facebook recently introduced video ads into the news feed, and LiveRail's expertise in the arena will no doubt help Facebook boost...
A few weeks ago a friend described Facebook to me as a massive social experiment. At the time I didn't think much of it. News broke this weekend that the company had purposefully manipulated more than 600,000 people's News Feeds to test the psychological effects, however, and now my friend's description sounds pretty accurate. The experiment, during which Facebook tweaked the user...
Facebook Paper is a pretty cool app, but until today it still wasn’t quite good enough to replace the official Facebook application entirely on your iPhone. That may change, however, with the launch of Paper 1.2, which adds a ton of new features as well as support for hashtags and a new section for trending news. Once you’ve downloaded the update you’ll be able to do a lot more with...