Facebook’s text virtual assistant, Facebook M – which relied on humans to train the artificial intelligence system – will lose the human help component of the system. According to a report in The Verge, two and a half years after Facebook M was rolled out,...
Add Mark Zuckerberg to the growing list of people interested in cryptocurrency. According to Bloomberg, Facebook’s CEO mentioned cryptocurrencies in a Jan. 4 Facebook posting that detailed his plans to spend 2018 working to address long-standing problems – including widespread misinformation and hate speech– that...
Facebook is looking to get consumers hooked at a young age by rolling out a new messaging app for kids between the ages of six and 12. According to news in The Wall Street Journal, Messenger Kids is a standalone chat and messaging app, enabling children...
Facebook announced that it has eliminated transaction fees on donations made to non-profit organizations through its platform. According to news from Reuters, this is a change that could help the social media network expand its presence in online fundraising. Facebook had been charging a 5...
Facebook is getting rid of Messenger Day and melding its stories functionality with the existing Facebook Stories feature, which is a clone of Snapchat Stories. According to a news report in TechCrunch, with the overhaul, Messenger Day is now simply called Stories. The posts, which...
Facebook may be gunning to introduce facial recognition software for in-store payments at retail locations, as presaged by a patent application published Thursday (Nov. 9) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In his filing, patent inventor Stephen Moore Davis noted the plethora of payment methods in...
Facebook is teaming up with Apartment List and Zumper to bring real estate listings to its Marketplace retail platform. According to news from Engadget, citing the social media company, with the new partnerships, U.S. Facebook users will be able to peruse hundreds of thousands of apartment rental units. The...
The big challenge with peer-to-peer (P2P) payments has always been ubiquity. Many platforms have made like-to-like transfers fast, easy and secure. But when users need to transfer apples to oranges, they’re still encountering friction, as the sender and receiver must both be on the platform...
Facebook managed to notch another quarterly earnings report that outstripped Wall Street’s expectations. Q3 earnings and revenue both came in significantly higher than expected, with strong growth in Facebook’s mobile advertising business. But the social media company’s stock was down in after-hours trading, as investors were...
