Facebook Messenger adds 300m users since messaging removed from main app November 18, 2014 Over half a billion people use Facebook Messenger every month, the social media site revealed today. The mobile instant messaging app now has over 500m monthly users following the company’s decision to remove the messaging feature from the main Facebook app. Combined with its other instant messaging service, WhatsApp, Facebook now has around [...]
Snapchat moves into mobile banking with the launch of Snapcash: Will it rival Facebook, Twitter? November 18, 2014 Snapchat is taking the plunge into the mobile payments market, with the announcement of a new app that lets users transfer cash at the hit of a button. The photo messaging service, which lets users send photos vanish after a maximum of 10 seconds, unveiled Snapcash in a blog post yesterday: The product you’re [...]
With Facebook at Work on the cards, is online networking really useful? November 17, 2014 News broke yesterday that Facebook is set to develop a new version of its social network – for the workplace. “Facebook at Work” will enable users to connect with contacts and communicate with colleagues, rivalling sites like LinkedIn and Google Plus. A report by the FT said the site will look a lot like [...]
Should you use Facebook at work? Soon you might have to as Zuckerberg said to be developing professional social network for the office November 17, 2014 Companies usually frown on their workers spending the day on Facebook, but that could be about to change. No longer will you have to hide your browser window when your boss walks past, as Facebook is said to be secretly creating “Facebook at Work”, a new enterprise product designed to aid communication and collaboration in [...]
Why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a business case for T-shirts November 10, 2014 His Q&A last week revealed some unlikely lessons for leaders. Facebook staff are treated every Friday to a Q&A session with founder Mark Zuckerberg. And last week, that privilege was extended to Facebook users, with a small crowd gathering to volley questions at Zuckerberg and his leadership team. Holding court for just over an [...]
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is hosting a Q&A tonight and will answer questions from the public November 6, 2014 Famously private tech top dog Mark Zuckerberg is opening up to the public for the first time in a question and answer session online. The Facebook founder, and more recently Chinese language student, is taking an hour out of his busy schedule to field questions from, basically, anyone who asks. Much like Reddit’s famous AMAs [...]
Facebook data requests: The UK government is requesting more information than ever before November 5, 2014 The UK government is making more requests than ever before for Facebook to hand over user data. In the first half of the year there were 2,110 requests made by UK authorities, compared to 1,975 in the same period in 2013, a rise of seven per cent. Facebook handed over some data in 70 per [...]
GCHQ director: WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook “facilitate” Isis terrorism November 4, 2014 GCHQ’s newly appointed director has suggested that Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and other large US tech brands “facilitate” terrorism. In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times, Robert Hannigan writes that “the largest US tech companies…are the routes for the facilitation of crime and terrorism.” Hannigan’s article is published on the same day [...]
Facebook has shown the way with its move to mobile – now everyone else must follow October 29, 2014 Facebook has made mobile pay. That much was made clear after the site revealed mobile adverts now account for 66 per cent of its advertising revenue. And when that mobile ad revenue amounts to $1.95bn, it pays to seek to understand how it got there – and quite possibly how to copy it. “Our strong [...]
Facebook beats expectations as mobile grows October 28, 2014 Facebook has posted impressive third-quarter results with growth in both revenue and users. Yet despite beating analysts’ expectations, markets had expected a stronger performance and shares in Facebook dropped eight per cent in after-hours trading last night. The firm also warned of higher costs next year. The multi-billion dollar company grew its daily active users [...]