Facebook buys wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and shares
Facebook has acquired hugely popular messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and shares.
Facebook to add new gender identity choices for its billion+ users
Facebook has announced that it will introduce around 50 new gender identity options for its billion-strong userbase so that people can define how they want to be perceived.
“Look what this girl is wearing at the beach in front of thousands of people” Facebook spam goes viral again
Facebook spam asking users to “look what this girl is wearing at the beach in front of thousands of people” has gone viral again, showing that people don’t learn and like watching videos of girls in bikinis.
Facebook to Introduce #Hashtags
Apparently Facebook is getting jealous on Twitter’s press coverage for involvement in current events and the success of their targeted “sponsored tweets” advertising programme. So much so, that Facebook are rolling out a new feature that is a direct copy of something that has been central to Twitter since the early days – the #hashtag.