Social media usage amongst millennials is a given, if you don’t embrace it you fall behind – fast! It is also becoming a very necessary marketing option for South African business to engage their market…
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Facebook tests video ads in budding YouTube challenge
Facebook on Thursday confirmed that it is dabbling in video ads and sharing revenue with content creators, in a move that would compete with Google-owned YouTube. An advertising model being tested by the leading online…
New technology to let people touch virtual worlds
Behind closed doors on the show floor of the world’s premier video game show, Facebook-owned Oculus was letting people touch virtual worlds. Oculus provided a select few with an early peek at how it is…
Messenger app tops a billion downloads at Google Play
Facebook crowed that an Android version of its Messenger app has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Google Play store. “Happy to make it to the very exclusive Android 1 billion+ downloads…
Facebook Lite makes debut in Asia
Facebook on Thursday released a ‘Lite’ version of its application that was tailored for people using Android smartphones in places where wireless data bandwidth is scarce. Facebook Lite was built to use less data and…
Facebook hooks up with publishers for ‘Instant Articles’
Facebook has teamed up with nine news publishers to launch a feature that will allow them to publish articles directly on the network’s mobile news feeds. Sharing articles on Facebook’s mobile app is more and…
Facebook rolls out video calls on Messenger
Facebook on Monday began rolling out video calling on its Messenger mobile application, enabling face-to-face conversations among users of the app around the world. With the new feature, users can add video to calls to…
Facebook use linked to depressive symptoms, study says
“If Facebook were a country, its population would rival the single most populous country on Earth,” says Washington Post. According to Facebook’s 2014 Q3 earnings report, more than 1.35 billion people use the social networking…
Facebook clarifies “Community Standards” – guidelines on acceptable posts
Social-networking giant Facebook updated its “Community Standards” on Monday. The new guidelines include updates in regards to posts relating to nudity, violence, hate speech, terrorist activity, self-injury and more. The new guidelines clearly outline that…
What is OK to share on social media and what is Not?
Lately, the Social media streets have become something else. What with people posting anything and everything? Things that give way too much information about your life to people who don’t really care? Well, there are…