The messaging app is for people who don't have unlimited free text messages The social media giant, Facebook, has decided to buy the mobile messaging app called WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and in stock.
Latinos' $1.5 Billion Spending Power Attracts Brands on Facebook Hispanics' presence on social media surpassed the average non-Hispanic average and brands are set to take advantage such as Facebook.
Will you embrace the change? As part of Facebook's campaign to support the LGBT advocacy, it has extended its gender identity options from male or female to 50 other terms.
Across the border from the U.S. state of Arizona, some strange activity has been occurring in the Mexican state of Sonora.A few parents who have just given birth are experiencing severely clouded judgment when it comes to naming their newborns. In an odd case of baby naming, newborns are being brought into the world with names such as "Facebook," "Rambo," to "Marciana," which means "Martian" in Spanish, as well as a boy called "Circuncision," or "Circumcision."
Twitter's CEO said he would do something about the less than user-friendly look of the social network, and it looks like the company is trying to make good on his promise: A new Facebook-looking Twitter profile page has leaked to Mashable.
Millions have used the new feature celebrating Facebook's 10th year If you've been on Facebook recently you've encountered other users using a new feature launched by the social networking site called Look Back, originally created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the site, which instantly creates personalized video montages of a user's top posts.
The news feed app gives a new way to browse posts and articles Facebook launched a news feed app called Facebook Paper, featuring a horizontal row of cards where you swipe left or right to move from one card to another.
Apple Inc. and Google have joined forces to eradicate unnecessary patent lawsuits just as the iPhone company was slapped with a $2 billion damage claim.
Latinos are at the helm of social media; a fact that was confirmed by a 2013 Pew Report that indicated that 80 percent of Hispanic adults in the U.S. use social media, which is more than whites (70 percent) and African Americans (75 percent).
These days, we tend to take social media for granted. We even hire people on the basis of their purported skills with social media. However, in order to understand how far we have to go in social media, we have to take a look back at how far we've come.
It was a busy week on social media: Facebook announced its continuing dominance and a new mobile app, Tumblr incorporated comedy into its terms of service, Twitter got IBM off its back, and President Obama used the most disliked social media platform to popularize his State of the Union agenda. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Facebook's latest app, Paper, signals two major moves for the world's most popular social media platform: It's doubling down on mobile while continuing its push to become a social news network.
Despite recent studies spelling doom for Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg clearly has his sights on building a worldwide social media platform and upending the tech industry. How will Zuckerberg take over the world? Efficiency.
The scientific study has resulted in a public relations jab-fest A feud was started between Facebook and Princeton last week when a group of the prestigious university's researchers published a scholarly article suggesting that the major social network would lose 80 percent of its users by 2017.
A lot happened this week in the world of social media. Pinterest started testing GIFs, Princeton declared that Facebook would die in three years, Facebook released a clever rejoinder, Instagram was revealed to be the fastest-growing social media platform on the planet, and Google+ went down, along with Gmail services, but hardly anyone noticed. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Facebook has fired back at a Princeton University study predicting the social media giant will die by 2017 in the snarkiest (i.e., best) way possible - by creating its own study that says Princeton University will die out by 2021, along with the world. The tongue-in-cheek reply from Facebook pokes fun at the idea that the every "scientific" study is created equal.
They say criminals always return to the scene of the crime, but one criminal from Pennsylvania made a more modern and even stupider mistake by returning to social media.
Facebook continues to keep up with the times. In an attempt that makes the social networking site even more similar to its rival Twitter, Facebook will now have trending topics added to your news feed. You will now get to see what other users have been talking about while you took your usual 5-10 minute break from the addicting social sharing machine.
Facebook, in its continuing quest to make its social network more public and "newsy," announced "Trending" on Thursday, a new feature that will put a list of trending topics up in the top right corner of every user's News Feed. The addition of this feature confirms that Facebook sees Twitter as both a threat and a model for news-focused social content.
