Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

A password may soon be required to enter the country — the applicant’s Facebook password, that is. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly suggested the measure to the House Homeland Security Committee today during talks around Trump’s embattled executive order on immigration. Read More... →

Facebook’s stripped-down but speedy Lite app is growing fast and adding countries so it can keep connecting people and building the company’s business in the low-bandwidth world where revenue increased 52% this year. Facebook Lite launched in June 2015, it rocketed to 100 million monthly users by March 2016, and now it’s doubled in size to 200 million users. And that’s… Read More... →

Facebook gave Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren a voice late last night when her Senate colleagues attempted to silence her on the floor. As Democrats rally against many of Trump’s cabinet nominations, an arcane rule was whipped out of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pocket, silencing Sen. Warren’s argument against the appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.… Read More... →

В России функция Community Help будет доступна позже... →

Instead of sending thoughts and prayers to crisis victims, Facebook now lets you share food, transportation, and shelter. You know…things that will actually help. Today Facebook is expanding its Safety Check that allows friends to declare they’re safe after a disaster with the launch of “Community Help”. The feature adds a page to Safety Check where locals can offer… Read More... →

CXA, a Singapore-based startup insurance brokerage — if such a thing can exist — has scooped up $25 million to expand its service that provide policies with a focus on wellness across Asia. This is a Series B investment and it was led by B Capital, the BCG-backed fund from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, and EDBI, the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Read More... →

On her personal Facebook account Tuesday, COO Sheryl Sandberg announced an update to the company’s employee benefits, which are newly enhanced to ease the lives of new parents and grieving employees alike. Sandberg noted that the decision intends to lead the charge for policies that help new parents as well as families that are grieving the loss of a loved one. In the post, Sandberg… Read More... →

The social norms of in-person communication clearly don’t exist online, and Facebook is limited by constraints of design, structure and algorithms — constraints that don’t exist in person. So how can Facebook make politics less painful? Let’s take a look at four behavioral design strategies Facebook could use to facilitate discourse and help you avoid offending a… Read More... →

Don’t we all love developer conferences. Facebook just opened the (virtual) doors of its annual F8 event on April 18-19. You’ll need to apply before February 21. And if you get selected, tickets cost $595. Facebook already announced that the company would switch things up a bit with F8 in 2017. When the company shared the dates of the conference, it also said that the conference… Read More... →

Another legal challenge to a data transfer authorization mechanism relied upon by Facebook and thousands of other companies to legally move user data from the European Union to the US for processing has kicked off in the Irish High Court today. The hearing is expected to last for three weeks. Read More... →

Hootsuite, the startup and platform that lets marketers manage company’s interactions across a range of social media networks, is getting into the business of paid content. Today, it is announcing that it has acquired AdEspresso, a company that has built a set of tools to create, A-B test, and post advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. It will sit in a relaunched version of… Read More... →

Google’s video powerhouse YouTube is today taking its latest step to compete with Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope to be the go-to platform for live video streaming, specifically of the unscripted, on-the-fly kind. YouTube today is turning on live video recording directly from its mobile app for creators who have at least 10,000 subscribers. And on top of this… Read More... →

Группа акционеров Facebook призвала членов правления исключить главу компании Марка Цукерберга из совета директоров. По мнению инвесторов, независимый человек сможет обеспечить должный контроль над руководством компании, улучшить корпоративное управление и утвердить более ясный план действий, ориентированный на акционеров. За исключение Марка Цукерберга из совета директоров выступает группа инвесторов, которые являются членами правозащитной организации SumOfUs. Объединение […]... →

В преддверии президентских выборов во Франции Google и Facebook объединили свои усилия для борьбы с фейковыми новостями, сообщает Reuters. В частности, Facebook поддержит проект Google Cross News, который позволит проверять новости совместно со СМИ. Пользователи смогут отправлять ссылки на подозрительные публикации через сайт проекта, а партнёры сервиса будут проверять их на достоверность. К проекту уже присоединилось 17 […]... →

PR-директор холдинга Rambler&Co София Иванова покинет компанию 7 февраля, сообщила она на своей странице в Facebook. Её место займёт Матвей Алексеев, который ранее занимался общением с органами государственной власти и отраслевыми организациями и теперь объединит GR- и PR-направления.... →

Инициативная группа акционеров хочет видеть на этом посту «независимного» председателя.... →

Super Bowl LI may have made history as the first Big Game to go into overtime, but that may not have translated into record ratings, or, as it turns out, record social media engagement, either. According to Facebook, 64 million people posted 240 million interactions its social network last night, an increase over last year’s 60 million users and 200 million posts during what was, then,… Read More... →

Крупнейшие корпорации США подали в суд юридическое обоснование своей позиции против указа президента Дональда Трампа по ограничению миграции. Как сообщает Reuters, в обосновании говорится, что указ, ограничивающий въезд работников из-за рубежа, наносит ущерб американскому бизнесу: «Указ представляет существенный отход от принципов справедливости и прогнозируемости, которые определяли иммиграционную систему США в течение более чем 50 лет, […]... →

Ранее Facebook сделал то же самое в Германии – и тоже на фоне приближающих выборов... →

Однако пока функция доступна только жителям США... →