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Facebook launches yet another app: “Stickered for Messenger”
Facebook this morning has launched yet another app into the iPhone and Android app stores. Stickered for Messenger lets users modify their photos by placing stickers on top. The app, which is free, lets you add as many stickers as you like, and you can drag and pinch to twist and shape stickers as you…
Facebook launches separate Groups app
Facebook has launched another app - this time spinning off Groups into a separate icon on your home screen. In news that will no doubt delight the people who hated having to install a Messenger app, the same is now the case for Groups. The new app lets you view all of your groups in…
5 takeaways from the “Facebook at Work” rumours
If this rumours this morning are correct, Facebook is planning to go after business users, with a new product called "Facebook at Work". According to the FT, the new service will "allow users to chat with colleagues, connect with professional contacts and collaborate over documents". It's a really interesting move - here's five things we…
Facebook steps in to help fight Ebola
Facebook has announced plans to help fight ebola - both by soliciting donations from around the world, and by offering advice directly to people in the area who may be affected. First off, Facebook has updated the news feed so that if you're in one of the impacted places in West Africa, you might be…
Facebook adds Safety Check for when your friends are caught up in disaster areas
Have you ever seen a big disaster on the news, and worried that your family and friends might be in the middle of it? Brilliantly, Facebook has just added a new tool that will put minds at ease. Safety Check will activate when there's a disaster and Facebook knows that you're nearby - either through…
Is Facebook about to launch a system for paying friends cash?
Lending your friends money could be about to come a whole lot easier thanks to Facebook, which is apparently planning an in-app payment system for Facebook Messenger. We've all been there: After a meal with a few people in a restaurant it comes down to settling the bill, and it becomes unbearable everyone scrabbles around…
Facebook experiments with disappearing posts
Facebook is taking a leaf out of Snapchat's book and testing out self-destructing posts. The social network is running a pilot programme where it allows users to schedule an expiration time for posts they publish. The time frame varies from one hour to seven days. After that, Facebook's servers take up to 90 days to delete…
Instagram launches “Hyperlapse” app
Instagram has this evening launched a new app - "Hyperlapse" is designed for creating short timelapse videos. Apparently the way it works is by slowing the frame rate at which video is recorded, so that when you play it back events happen much quicker. It also appears to apply some smoothing algorithms (not unlike this)…
Facebook got annoyed by click-bait and you’ll never believe what happened next…
Facebook has announced a tweak of its newsfeed algorithm that will cut down on the amount of "click-bait" you see on your news feed. You might never see Upworthy ever again. Apparently Facebook's intention is to give users more information when deciding whether to click on something - rather than have slightly misdirected "Upworthy" style…
Police investigated over social media breaches
Hundreds of police officers in England and Wales have been accused of breaches social media guidelines that include making racist and threatening comments, posing images of colleagues in compromising positions and sending Facebook friend requests to victims of crime. The BBC reports that research by the Press Association found that of 828 cases from 2009…
