A Facebook executive confirmed that the social media giant could release facial recognition glasses this year in partnership with Luxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban, Buzzfeed reported on Thursday (Feb. 25). Andrew Bosworth, vice president of augmented and virtual reality at Facebook, told employees that the...
U.K. regulators have officially started a probe into Facebook’s now-completed acquisition of Giphy, a GIF-making and sharing website. The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority officially notified the parties to the case of the investigation. The press release said that the deadline for the authority “to...
Facebook will increase its security offerings, especially for high-profile users, the social media giant announced Tuesday (Dec. 22). The company will support the use of security keys on mobile devices so anyone logging into an account will need more than just a password, a Facebook...
Facebook has proposed easing antitrust concerns by letting a rival company license access to its code and its users’ network of relationships to foster the easier development of a competing social platform, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday (Dec. 22), citing unnamed sources. Facebook made...
Facebook’s messaging app WhatsApp is introducing a beta version of voice and video call capabilities on its desktop app, WABetaInfo reported on Friday (Dec. 18). WhatsApp is the second-most popular messaging app after Facebook, with over 2 billion users around the world. WhatsApp already offers...
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....
