Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook Open Sources Its AI-Based Bot Research

Want to learn from Facebook how does it train its artificial intelligence (AI) bots? Take the lessons from the social media giant itself – for free. In a bid to help researchers and engineers, Facebook has made its AI bot-building research available in the form of fastText library – an open-sourced platform, Engadgetreported on Friday. Part of the Facebook AI ... Read More »

Facebook Live Video Now Available to All Users in India: How to Get Started

HIGHLIGHTS Facebook Live Video is now available in India Available on both iOS and Android It was earlier available to registered pages and users in other regions Facebook seems to have flipped the Live Video switch for all its individual users in India, with the option now available to users on the iOS and Android apps. The Live Video feature ... Read More »

Facebook Lifestage App Launched for Video-Loving Teenagers

HIGHLIGHTS iPhone app that allows teens to watch clips about the lives of their classmates Allows users to make video clips to describe likes, peeves, dance styles, and other aspects of their character Once enough students at any given school are on the app, it becomes “unlocked” Facebook on Friday took direct aim at video-loving adolescents, and Snapchat, with the ... Read More »

Mark Zuckerberg Gives $95 Million in Facebook Shares to Charity

In the first gesture to fulfill his pledge that he and his wife made last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sold $95 million (roughly Rs. 638 crores) of the social networking giant’s shares. According to a US regulatory filing, The Chan Zuckerberg Foundation and CZI Holdings LLC sold Facebook shares worth $95 million before taxes, Forbes reported on Saturday. ... Read More »

Facebook Live Gets Touted 2-Person Broadcasting Feature

HIGHLIGHTS It is only available to US users for now Only verified pages will be able to use this feature Users must have an iOS device for this feature to work At the annual VidCon conference in June, the social giant had announced that it will roll out a bunch of new capabilities to Facebook Live. This included scheduling, two-person ... Read More »

What Can Facebook Custom Audiences Do for Your Marketing Campaign?

Email marketing is the most-used digital channel on the planet, and for good reason. The vast majority of companies use some form of email marketing. Your best business comes from people who know you. The people on your email lists are more likely to engage with and buy from you. Despite all its positives, email marketing presents several challenges. Email ... Read More »

Business Users Trial New Facebook Live Streaming Video – We Have Examples

Since Facebook announced its new live streaming feature last year, and then opened it up to all users in December, the feature hasn’t exactly caught fire as some expected it would. But Facebook Live does have some potential benefits for business users. And a few business users have been able to try out the new feature and use it to interact with ... Read More »

How to Use New Facebook Reactions for Emotional Content Ideas

The world’s biggest online social network recently launched a feature offering more insight into your followers’ emotional reactions to content. The new Facebook Reactions allows users to do more than just “like” the posts that show up on their feeds. Now, they can choose to share more specific reactions. These reactions are denoted by five new buttons — additions to the existing “like” ... Read More »

Facebook Q1 Shows Massive 52 Percent Growth Year Over Year

Skeptics expecting the Facebook success story to end will have to wait. The company reported a 52 percent revenue growth and tripled its quarterly profits in the first three months of 2016. Facebook’s impressive growth coincides with Apple’s drop in sales for the first time in 13 years this quarter. What’s also interesting is that another rival Microsoft hasn’t done ... Read More »

Oh No! Did Facebook Just Kill Unpaid Marketing Content?

On June 29, Facebook’s algorithm change rocked the content world. The social media giant announced it would start prioritizing posts shared by friends and family over content from publishers and brands. That’s bad news for brands that have come to rely on social media sites like Facebook as a major web traffic driver. Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) accounts for 41.4 percent of ... Read More »