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.
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Facebook is expected to provide more details on its plans to increase privacy and encryption when its annual developer conference begins on Tuesday night.
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.
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.
WhatsApp is giving users more control over who can add them into group chats in a bid to prevent unwanted invitations.
MTN South Africa has launched a new service on WhatsApp that allows its customers to check their balances, top up their airtime and buy data bundles without having to leave the Facebook-owned messaging app.
Facebook said a shift in the setup of its computer servers caused a widespread outage described as the largest ever recorded to hit the social media network and its other services.
Facebook is undergoing one of its most widespread and persistent system outages, with users across the globe unable to access its social network and services from Instagram to Messenger.
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest blog post talks about making Facebook and its Internet hangouts more of an intimate digital “living room” rather than a raucous public town square.