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Facebook launching ‘Graph Search,’ a personalized search engine!
Facebook just announced “Graph Search,” a feature to search all of Facebook’s content for queries tailored for your profile. “Graph Search” feature is meant to answer very specific questions like “Who are my friends in Finland?”. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg also told that this new feature is “totally privacy aware.” Facebook even dedicated 10 percent of it’s computer power to ensuring users privacy.
Check out new features list after the break.
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Facebook testing free voice calling in Messenger app!
Facebook started today testing free phone calls feature in it’s Messenger app in Canada. Facebook users in Canada can now make free phone calls via Facebook’s messenger app anywhere they have WiFi or cellular connection. New feature is currently available only for iOS users, but could also roll out to Android users, as well as all of us outside of Canada. Users outside Canada will also receive new update to both Facebook Messenger apps for iOS and Android that let’s users to make short “push to talk” voice messages. As there’s already some voice message apps in both App Store and in Google Play, it’s not so big deal, but if you could make free calls through Facebook, it would be a game changer to all who don’t want to receive big phone bills every month.
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Mark Zuckerberg donates $500 million in Facebook stock to charity!
Facebook (FB) founder and the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, have just donated $500 million in Facebook stocks to charity, that’s the right way to say happy holidays to me. Stocks were donated to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, with hopes that the funds will be applied to education and health programs. In the status update, Zuckerberg wrote that the donation was ” in order to lay the foundation for new projects” and that he is “hopeful we’ll be able to have as positive an impact in our next set of projects.”
This is not the first time that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has donated big amounts of money to charity, just before the company went to public he donated $100 million in company stock to Newark, N.J., public school districts. Check out the full Facebook post from Mark Zuckerberg after the break.
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Facebook App for iPhone gets updated, adds new reconstructed timeline!
Facebook finally released native app for Android yesterday, and today company updates it’s Facebook for iPhone. Facebook for iOS is now in version 5.3, and according to iTunes, new updated Facebook app for iPhone gives a speed boost to your timeline, with the primary social news page loads updates quicker. You can also now choose album when uploading your precious photos. Check out the full change list after the break.
What’s New in Version 5.3
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Facebook app for Android hitting version 2.0, with much faster load times!
Facebook app for Android updated to version 2.0, with much faster load times and other new enhancements. The Facebook 2.0 update for Android is hitting the Google Play in some point today. Facebook 2.0 for Android is said to be twice as fast as the previous version was in timeline and photo loading times, and on top of that it’s just simply faster to start. Update also includes ability to flip through photos with out having to go away from news feed. You can start updating Facebook app for Android to version 2.0 by heading Google Play.
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Facebook Messenger allows sign-ups with just name and phone number on Android devices!
Facebook messenger now allows users to sign-up with just only name and phone number, though this only for Android devices for now. You just need to download the app and tap the Get Started to reach your contacts faster, start group conversations, share photos and more. If you have Facebook Messenger app already installed on your Android device, there’s update available today and Messenger accounts will become available over the next few weeks.
The roll-out is currently focusing on Australia, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Venezuela, and the rest of the world should get it soon. Update is also coming to iOS, but the schedule is less definite.
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Facebook interested of buying mobile chat app WhatsApp?
WhatsApp, popular mobile chat app, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook (FB), source close to the subject told to TechCrunch. TechCrunch doesn’t have any information about the actual price of the possible deal or how advanced these talks might be.
WhatsApp is popular mobile chat app, which is now available for Android, iOS, Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. The app can deliver text messages, photos, videos and audio messages for free. WhatsApp is ad-free app and it’s available in 250 countries, and company claims that they now have about 100 million daily users. The company announced back in October 2011 that they are now serving up 1 billion messages per day.
I’ll keep my eyes on this one and i let you know more, when new details come out.
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Facebook Photo Sync for Android and iOS is now available!
Facebook started to test Photo Sync back in August and today it will be available for iOS and Android devices. The new service automatically sends images from your smartphone to a private album in the cloud. When you’re ready to post them in the Facebook just tick the box on your image. You can check out more info from the promo video and read more info by heading the source link below.
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Facebook users can now share via Android and iOS app!
Just yesterday Facebook revealed that it’s bringing website share feature to mobile apps for Android and iOS. Now Facebook has released version 5.2 of it’s app to both Android and iOS devices. Facebook mobile app users can now share postings and photos by just clicking new share button. When user share other users post of photos, it
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Facebook invites the media to ‘come and see what we’re building’ next week!
Facebook has sent out invites to the media to “come and see what we’re building” event. The event is held at California headquarters next week. There’s not much clues what Facebook might show, except the fact that they are going to show something new. Leave a comment below, telling what you think Facebook is building next.
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