F8 news and trends

Robots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing
Sizzle/Fizzle // May 04, 2018

Fizzle of the Week: Timing Spring has finally arrived across the United States, and love is in the air. Even on Facebook. The social media giant had lots of things to announce this week at F8: new features, like the “clear history” button; upgrades, like the video...

The Big F8 Rundown: The Changes Are A-Coming
Facebook // May 02, 2018

While Facebook’s annual developer conference is always a big event, this year all eyes were particularly on the social network after recent events found Facebook on the front page a lot, but for all the wrong reasons.  Though Facebook’s earnings seemed relatively unharmed by the...

Facebook To Focus On Privacy And AR For F8 Conference
Facebook // May 01, 2018

The F8 annual developer conference is set to kick off this week — and tech watchers worldwide are wondering what the mood at the event will be as Facebook is attempting to redefine itself in a post-Cambridge Analytica world. So what can we expect to...

Rue21, mode.ai Launch Virtual Stylists Via Facebook Messenger
Retail // April 20, 2017

Facebook’s annual developer conference F8 is seeing its fair share of chatbot integration announcements. Now the fashion world is taking center stage as both Rue21 and mode.ai announce their plans for a virtual stylist offering through Facebook’s Messenger app. While Rue21 is working with artificial intelligence–driven...

Interviews & Exclusives
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 a bit of counterevidence, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg did have […]

Quick Reads
Facebook Pumps Up Appeal Of Marketplace At F8

April 30, 2019
The Facebook Marketplace is growing up. News from the social media’s F8 conference on Tuesday (April 30) said Facebook will soon let Marketplace sellers “ship items anywhere in the continental U.S., while (consumers will) be able to pay for purchases directly through the platform. As such, sellers who are happy to ship their goods will […]

The Big F8 Rundown: The Changes Are A-Coming

May 02, 2018
While Facebook’s annual developer conference is always a big event, this year all eyes were particularly on the social network after recent events found Facebook on the front page a...

Facebook To Focus On Privacy And AR For F8 Conference

May 01, 2018
The F8 annual developer conference is set to kick off this week — and tech watchers worldwide are wondering what the mood at the event will be as Facebook is...

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...