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Facebook Tests X-App Notifications
May 19, 2017

Facebook has confirmed that it’s testing out a feature that would show notifications from Facebook, Messenger and Instagram and allow users to instantly switch between them. “We are conducting a very small test to make it easier for people to discover and connect with the people...

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Facebook Forced To Reimburse Some Advertisers
May 17, 2017

Facebook announced yesterday that it would refund some advertisers after finding a bug that wrongly attributed video carousel ad clicks as clicks to the advertisers’ websites. Reuters reported that when users tried to expand and watch the video carousel on the mobile web browser, the bug...

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Stolen Card And Loyalty Credentials For Sale On Facebook Says LFPA
May 12, 2017

The newly formed Loyalty Fraud Prevention Association (LFPA), launched in September of last year, has made a bold claim in its latest release. While the image conjured up when imagining the sale of stolen card credentials is likely some seedy back-alley of the internet or within...

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Facebook Wants To Focus More On Community
May 04, 2017

Facebook announced Q1 numbers that beat analysts’ estimates for revenue, ads, monthly and daily users and engagement. But after-hours trading saw Facebook shares fall 1.92 percent, even after the tech giant beat analyst expectations on almost every count. In his prepared remarks, CEO Mark Zuckerberg...

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Facebook Tracker: Anticipation
May 02, 2017

Facebook (FB) shares have hit record highs amid investor optimism on the social media giant’s upcoming Q1 earnings report. Facebook is slated to release the results on Wednesday of this week. On Monday morning, trading of FB shares opened up from last week’s high-note close,...

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Facebook Quietly Testing QR Codes For Offline Discounts
May 02, 2017

Facebook doesn’t only want to be the leading advertising destination in the world of social media; it’s also trying to show it can drive foot traffic to physical retail locations and has been testing a feature to prove it. According to a report in TechCrunch, Facebook has...

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FanContact Launches Facebook-Enabled Marketing Software
May 01, 2017

With more companies looking to sync up with Facebook’s Messenger for customer service and promotional efforts, it should come as no surprise that the social media giant has updated its app to enhance online marketers’ work. To help move the ball forward for eCommerce marketers,...

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Facebook Tricks Out Messenger With Food Ordering, Games, QR Codes
April 19, 2017

More big things have just come to Facebook Messenger and its native virtual assistant chatbot M, the company said at the ongoing F8 developer conference. Soon after rolling out group payment capabilities in its Messenger app for U.S. users, the social media giant has announced...

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Facebook Messenger 2.0: Lotsa Bots
April 19, 2017

Innovator, entrepreneur and architect of “the greatest show on Earth” P.T. Barnum famously said, “There is no such thing as bad publicity.” This week, going into its F8 conference — Facebook’s annual in-house version of the greatest show on earth for its developers — the world got...