Tag: Facebook
What’s changing for WhatsApp users? “Nothing”
With Facebook purchasing WhatsApp, users may be concerned about what could change. Though we speculated in the announcement that there could be an advertising...
Facebook purchases WhatsApp for $19 billion
Facebook, in their continued desire for a messaging platform, has agreed to purchase WhatsApp. The selling price is a whopping $16 billion in cash...
Facebook still ‘very bullish’ on Home app/launcher, says Engineering Director
Introduced last year, Facebook Home was an attempt by the social media giant to make a home on your smartphone. Though derided by users...
Facebook’s Conceal promises ‘Efficient storage encryption for Android’
In an odd twist of fate, Facebook now wants to protect our data. The social giant, who has had their fair share of information...
Facebook Paper for Android? It’s going to take a while
We’ve noted previously that we’re kind of enamored with Facebook Paper. It’s a bold new look at Facebook, and takes all that you enjoy...
Facebook Graph Search leaks for mobile
What’s more important for search, Google or Facebook? While that sounds like a silly question, it may not be so cut and dry. Facebook...
Facebook Paper for iOS is amazing, and we’d like to see it for Android...
With Facebook Paper, we get a brand new — and better — way to access Facebook. Though released for iOS ahead of Android, there...
Facebook’s Paper isn’t their first mobile app, and it won’t be their last
Facebook’s earnings were announced yesterday, and it shows some interesting statistics. About 53% of their $2.53 billion in revenue is from mobile advertising. With...
Facebook has 1.23 billion monthly users, 945 million via mobile
Curious how many of us actually use Facebook? According to them, over 1 billion — monthly. In their Financial results for Q4 2013, Facebook...
Facebook Paper unveiled ahead of iPhone-only release
We had been hearing about a new app coming from Facebook. The app, dubbed Facebook Paper was expected to be released sometime in the...
Facebook Conceal API quickly encrypts large files on disk
Facebook has just made available a new set of cryptographic API for developers on Android. Aptly named Conceal, this Java library will allow app...
Facebook explains why they want access to your SMS
In a recent update, Facebook gained the ability to read your text messages. For a company that has a checkered past with regard to...