Facebook is warning users not to fall for a recent resurgence in privacy hoxes. Facebook has always been ripe for privacy hoaxes, and it appears it’s harvest time again on the social-networking giant. Users of the world’s largest social network were inundated Monday with messages on their news feeds reposted by friends that warn if …
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Since its inception, iOS devices have used a single home button navigating between apps. Click once to get back to the home screen, double-click to multitask. Case in point: Say you were in the Messages app and a Facebook notification required your attention. Tapping on the notification would result in the Facebook app launching, and nothing more. If you wanted …
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Facebook’s got a new tool in its ever-expanding efforts to make advertisers more relevant to its users. The Menlo Park, California-based social network is offering marketers access to a new testing technology to help them figure out which ads have the most success and why. The tools help an advertiser track the different ads it creates during a campaign and …
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You’re at dinner. Suddenly you’re stuck with the check as everyone promises to pay you back later. Sure, they can hand you cash the next time you see them, but maybe you’d rather just have the money go directly to where it came from — your bank account. To request an electronic transfer from your indebted friends, you’ll have to …
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Video’s becoming a key draw for people on Facebook. Facebook Lights, action, Facebook! The world’s largest social network isn’t just a place where people chat with friends, share news stories and look at baby photos. It’s increasingly becoming a center for video — be it uploads of friends dunking buckets of ice on their heads or advertisements from McDonald’s reenacting …
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You know what I miss? Photo albums. I miss flipping through their pages to rediscover memories, and slotting in new pictures. For all the convenience of instant uploads and sharing, my interaction with cloud-stored pictures tends to dissolve right after the first time I upload and share. (A November 2014 survey by self-publishing site Shutterfly suggests the same.) That’s why, …
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All those other social networks Facebook runs? They’re getting big. James Martin/CNET Facebook is well on its way to building another Facebook. The world’s largest social network has been steadily growing its audience outside its namesake website and mobile app, encouraging people to connect using its Instagram photo sharing network, Messenger communicator app and WhatsApp text message replacement service. The …
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Forget Amazon and Diapers.com. A new breed of concierge services for desktop and mobile apps far outpaces these now-common doorstep delivery outfits to ferry things like beer and handpicked clothing — even takeout from shops that don’t normally deliver. Right now, the trend is mostly locked to metropolitan cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. According to …
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, answering questions from Facebook users. Facebook Mark Zuckerberg continues to support Net neutrality. That was one of the key messages that came from a question and answer session the Facebook cofounder and CEO held on his company’s website Tuesday. Zuckerberg said the principle of Net neutrality, which requires that all Internet traffic be treated equally no …
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Facebook continues to face scrutiny in Europe over its privacy practices. CNET Facebook is facing more pressure from European regulators concerned about its privacy policies. Government privacy regulators from France, Spain and Italy recently joined a regulatory group already looking into how the company deals with the personal data it collects from its users, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. …
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