The social network has announced a number of updates across its platforms – Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp – at its F8 event. Here is a look at the key updates.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to start a “new chapter” for the social network as he unveiled the company’s plans to improve privacy.
Facebook is expected to provide more details on its plans to increase privacy and encryption when its annual developer conference begins on Tuesday night.
The number of dead Facebook account holders could outnumber the living within 50 years, new research has claimed.
Facebook shares surged in late trading after the largest social media company posted robust quarterly sales growth and signalled it may be close to resolving a US privacy investigation.
Twitter has reported growth in revenue but saw monthly active users drop by six million on this time last year, the firm’s latest financial results show.
BlackBerry Messenger, now known as BBM, the chat service that once dominated instant messaging in South Africa and several other markets around the world, will soon be no more.
Millions more Instagram users were affected by a password security lapse than parent company Facebook acknowledged nearly four weeks ago.
Facebook suffered its third major outage this year, with users across the world unable to access the social network or its suite of services such as Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Facebook and its allied services WhatsApp and Instagram were down for users around the world on Sunday.