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We have reported earlier that Facebook was planning the integration of its messaging stack. This simply means that users can quickly access their WhatsApp and Instagram messages from Messenger, and possibly, vice-versa. The Facebook-Owned…

Earlier this year, there reports flying round claiming that Facebook is working on bringing the dark mode to its mobile app. Well, it seems the social-media giant is now rolling out the dark mode update to users across the globe. As…

In the vein of fighting the spread of fake news or misinformation, Facebook has announced that it is rolling out a notification screen that alerts people when they share news articles that are more than 90 days old. With the context button,…

Facebook has launched a new app for iOS called Forecast which lets users ask questions regarding the future and vote on the questions of others. However, the questions posed so far range across a vast array of topics including politics,…

As the U.S. election keeps drawing near, so many measures are being taken by companies to make their platform saner. Facebook will now let its users in the U.S. turn off all political ads on the platform. The feature is now rolling out…

Facebook has been rolling out Dark mode features to its related a while now, with Messenger receiving it since March 2019, Instagram joining the train, and WhatsApp finally received its own in March 2020. Yet, talking about Facebook apps…

Facebook has of late been releasing new tools in order to make its most popular social media platform more interesting and useful for its users. The Facebook tool for exporting photos to Google Photos is now available to users around…

There are some times the need to bringing down some posts becomes necessary due to a reason best known to you or you just want to sanitize your page, and all you were able to do delete was to start delete one after the other and that could…

Following the introduction of its group audio calling app CatchUp and music collaboration App Collab, Facebook’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) team has announced a companion app for live events called ‘Venue’. Venue provides…

Facebook’s NPE team has announced a new app called Collab with a refreshed take on music creation. The announcement comes merely a couple of days after the team announced its group audio calling solution named CatchUp. Collab Is Music…

Facebook has built an app that helps reduce the cash spent on airtime and call your partner for free. At the same time, let you know when the other person is free. The app is called CatchUp. CatchUp is an audio-only calling app and its…

Facebook Messenger has introduced a new practical feature aimed at protecting its you from dangerous profiles. Alert messages will now warn them in case of exchanges with potentially malicious people. “Too often people chat with someone…

Facebook and some telecom operators have joined forces to build an undersea cable to supply internet services to Africa. The project will be just under $1 billion (Naira 360 billion) according to Bloomberg and it will be a 37,000km long…

Facebook has announced it's recent acquisition of the popular GIF-sharing platform, Giphy. The deal is said to have cost Facebook $400 million and its plan is to integrate the Giphy library in Instagram and other Facebook-owned…

Video conferencing app have grown in popularity during this lockdown, and this is making some of the big names in the industry restlessness as they also want to take a cut from the booming market. This is particularly the case with…

Reports have emerged that Facebook wants to make its Android app more beautiful through new features. Software engineer Jane Manchun Wong spotted this feature a few weeks ago when it was still in a very rough and ugly state. The adaptive…

Alongside the launching of its new Messenger Rooms feature that enables video calls up to 50 people, Facebook silently disclosed that it will soon make it possible for Facebook pages to monetize live streams. Part of what Facebook…

Facebook recently introduced the new group video calling feature called ‘Messenger Rooms‘ to Messenger in an attempt to get its share from the current high market demand for video meeting and calling platforms due to lockdown in the…

Video conferencing applications have gain huge amount of popularity due to the lockdown caused by COVID-19 crisis. Apps that were not that known to the general public, such as Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, or Houseparty, gained a…

Facebook has been planning to advertise on its popular messaging app WhatsApp for sometimes now. Though how the ads will run is not known yet, important information has emerged, picked from the statements of a company spokesperson.…

In its efforts to combat misinformation surrounding the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, Facebook is rolling out a number of features and initiatives to curb the spread of disinformation including pinning government public health…

Facebook Stories was launched back in June 2017 joining the Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status. Stories is an ephemeral feature stole from the social networking's rival, Snapchat. The stories you shared straight from the app on top of…

Facebook kicked off its journey to one of the biggest social media platform as a small, online meeting place for college students back in the early years of this millennium, and has since then keep expanding its coast. In this light, it…

After recognizing that it is important some times to take a break from social media not only for spending time with family or productivity, but also for mental health reason, Facebook has introduced a new “Quiet Mode” timer to help reduce…