It’s not clear how happy consumers in the United Kingdom will be over Facebook’s latest move, but privacy advocates are already up in arms. Facebook will transfer its U.K. users into new agreements with its corporate headquarters in California, effectively circumventing the European Union’s strict...
Facebook is planning to roll out a new feature called Super to let people pay celebrities or content creators for the chance to interact with them on a live broadcast, Bloomberg reported, similar to the app Cameo. The Cameo app reflects the attitude during the...
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, is pushing back against two antitrust lawsuits filed against the social media giant, CNBC reported on Friday (Dec. 11). The lawsuits filed this week could break up Facebook’s ownership of Instagram, acquired in 2012, and WhatsApp, snapped up...
Facebook is acquiring customer service chatbot startup Kustomer, the tech giant announced in a press release Monday (Nov. 30). Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it could value the New York-headquartered startup at more than $1 billion, sources told The Wall Street Journal....
Facebook could soon be staring down a lawsuit as the Federal Trade Commission and numerous states attorneys general finish up one or more antitrust cases against the social media giant, Reuters reports. One source told Reuters that FTC staff has recommended that commissioners sue Facebook...
Facebook is rolling out new cloud-based games in beta for Android and Windows operating systems that are free to play and don’t require downloads, the social media giant announced on Monday (Oct. 26). The service was tested with 200,000 people playing Facebook’s cloud-streamed games weekly...
While the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) debate if an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook should be pursued, FTC staffers are in favor of moving forward with the case, according to a Wall Street Journal report (WSJ) on Friday (Oct. 23), citing sources...
Social media giant Facebook is bringing its online dating tool to Europe after seeing success in the 20 countries where Facebook Dating is already offered, the company said in a statement on Thursday (Oct. 22). Facebook said there have been 1.5 billion matches so far,...
When it comes to upstart rival Nextdoor, Facebook appears to be engaging in some not-so-neighborly behavior. The social media giant has begun testing a new feature in Canada, dubbed Neighborhoods, that would steal a page from Nextdoor’s playbook and allow users to link up through...