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I use Facebook all day, every day. Even when I’m not sitting at my computer, I leave it open in a tab in Firefox. It’s just there. But I’m not the kind to endlessly scroll through my News Feed, looking for new pictures to like or stories to comment on. To be honest, I probably Continue Reading →

On Saturday, in the presence of area dignitaries, the local police department opened up a new substation in the neighborhood of Belle Haven, just a short block down the street from Facebook’s massive corporate headquarters. This is no ordinary police station. Its renovation, rent, and one officer’s salary have been substantially paid for by Facebook, Continue Reading →

Facebook on Monday launched Business Manager at business.facebook.com, a new tool that lets large advertisers manage all of their ad accounts, Pages, apps, and permissions from one place. Business Manager is currently available to a “limited number” of US advertisers, but the company says it plans to it roll out internationally “within a few weeks.” Continue Reading →

Next week at f8, Facebook will unveil Facebook Audience Network, its mobile ad network that will let developers target both standard banners and custom ad units with Facebook’s vast trove of personal data, according to multiple sources. It could let developers monetize, advertisers buy more mobile impressions than News Feed can fit, and Facebook earn Continue Reading →

The OpenSSL Heartbleed disaster definitely opened up many people’s eyes to how underfunded and understaffed many of the open source projects the web relies on are. To prevent the next Heartbleed, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Qualcomm, VMware and The Linux Foundation on Thursday announced the “Core Infrastructure Initiative.” This initiative will fund and support Continue Reading →

Facebook has always been filled with “news,” just not the kind you’d find in a daily newspaper. Recently, however, Facebook had made several moves to shift the content of your News Feed towards hard news — towards providing the RSS-like news experience people never knew they wanted. Facebook started with juicing the popularity of breaking Continue Reading →

Facebook has acquired the motion tracking app for Android and iPhone ‘Moves,‘ the startup announced Thursday via a blog post. The company’s founders say that the Moves crew will join Facebook’s team to “work on building and improving their products and services” and that the Moves app will continue to operate on its own as Continue Reading →

Facebook recently introduced auto-playing video ads on desktop and mobile, but thankfully there’s now a switch to opt out. Here’s what you have to do. For Facebook on the desktop, you can turn off auto-play videos in your settings: On Facebook, head to the drop-down menu in the upper right-hand corner and go to Settings Continue Reading →

Google hopes to one day provide wireless internet across the globe through an initiative called Project Loon. That project got a big boost recently when Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a startup that specializes in building high-altitude drones. In acquiring the drone manufacturer, Google beat Facebook to the punch, which had been eying up Titan Aerospace Continue Reading →

With Paper, Facebook set out to prove that it could “think small,” rebuilding itself from the ground up for mobile devices. This meant removing lots of clutter, and in some cases, leaving out certain features that some Facebook users might have considered essential. Facebook just launched Paper 1.1, an update meant to add back a Continue Reading →