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Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ will Review Trump’s Indefinite Suspension
Facebook’s oversight board, formed last year, will look at the social media company’s decision to suspend the account of former…
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Facebook Shuts Accounts of Top Ugandan Officials Ahead of Election
In the latest edition of the social media ban, Facebook has admitted shutting down accounts of top government officials in…
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Social Media
Trump Banned from Facebook and Instagram ‘indefinitely’
After what happened in the US Capitol on Wednesday night, Donald Trump has had a rough 48 hours on the…
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Social Media
Twitter and Facebook Suspend US President Donald Trump’s Account
Following last night’s events, Twitter has taken bold moves suspending US President Donald Trump ‘s account over “repeated and severe…
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Apps
WhatsApp Voice and Video Calls Hit an All-time High on New Year’s Eve
2020 was anything but a crazy year for the human race due to the novel coronavirus. The pandemic occasioned an…
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Apps
Facebook to begin testing Revamped Instagram Lite
Facebook is back with another version of Instagram Lite after the company shut the lightweight app earlier this year. Instagram…
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Blockchain
Facebook-backed Cryptocurrency Libra has been Renamed Diem
Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency has been renamed, Diem. The independent association behind the project, which comprises 27 members, has also been…
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Blockchain
Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency to Launch in 2021
Facebook’s Libra ambitions to enable seamless transfer of cash and digitizing the financial world in its unique fashion were met…
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Apps
Facebook Buys Customer Service Startup, Kustomer, for $1 Billion
Facebook has reached an agreement to acquire Kustomer, a customer relationship management platform that enables businesses to manage their customer…
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Social Media
Facebook Fined $6 million for Sharing User Information without Consent in South Korea
The South Korean watchdog launched in August this year has slapped America’s social media mammoth Facebook with a 6.7 billion…
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Social Media
Facebook Partners with Creative Garage to Support Kenyan Creatives
Facebook is joining forces with Creative Garage, a social enterprise working with creatives, to launch a new campaign. Through the…
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Apps
Facebook’s Dating Service Expands to 33 More Countries
Facebook Dating is now available in Europe. The social media giant’s dating service has been to date only available in…
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News
Facebook To Open New Offices in Lagos, Nigeria
Facebook is setting up shop in Lagos, Nigeria. The new office is the company’s second in the African continent but…
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Social Media
Facebook Avatars Officially Launched in Kenya
Social media giant, Facebook, has launched Avatars in Kenya and the wider Sub-saharan Africa region. Avatars, according to Facebook, is…
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Apps
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Admits Copying Features from Rival Apps
Big tech is facing intense scrutiny from US regulators. America big four tech companies – including Facebook Inc., Amazon Inc.,…
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Social Media
Two Kenyans Selected to join the Facebook Community Accelerator Program
Facebook has today announced the 12 African community leaders who have been selected to join its Community Accelerator. Facebook’s Community…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Continued to Share User Data With Developers Longer Than Promised
Facebook has come clean, saying they shared user data with third-party developers longer than they had promised. The US Social…
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BUSINESS
The Facebook Ad Boycott Campaign is Gaining Steam
Advertisers around the world are joining the Facebook ad boycott organized by several civil rights and other advocacy groups. In…
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BUSINESS
WhatsApp Debuts A Digital Payments System in Brazil
The Facebook-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has just launched a digital payments service in Brazil. Through the payment service which…
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News
Facebook Launches Programme To Meet Digital Literacy Needs Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook has today launched a new digital literacy programme designed to equip young people across Sub-Saharan Africa with digital skills…
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Social Media
Scientists Funded By Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Urge Facebook To Do More On Misinformation
Over 400 scientists funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative have in an open letter sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
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Social Media
Facebook starts labelling posts by ‘state-controlled media’
Tech giant Facebook has begun labeling posts by state-controlled media on its platform to notify users. These labels will be…
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News
Facebook and Red Cross Launch Campaign Calling for Vigilance against Covid-19 in Africa
Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and…
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Social Media
Facebook Wants To Verify the Identity of People Behind High-Reach Profiles
Facebook plans to start verifying the identity of individual accounts that regularly go viral on the platform. In a blog…
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Social Media
Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Tech Companies
US President Donald Trump has yesterday signed an executive order aimed at cracking down on tech companies like Google, Facebook…
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BUSINESS
Facebook Partners With Telcos To Build A 37000km, 180Tbps Undersea Cable To Serve Africa
Facebook has partnered with several telcos in Africa to bring faster internet connectivity. The social media giant together with a…
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Apps
Facebook SDK Bug Crashes Major iOS Apps including Spotify, TikTok and Tinder
Last night several iOS users took it on Twitter complaining about app crashes. The most affected apps were major apps…
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News
Maina Kiai among 20 members appointed to the Facebook oversight board to moderate content
Kenya’s Maina Kiai is among the three Africans that have been appointed as Board Members to the newly created Oversight…
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Blockchain
Facebook Scales Back Ambitious Libra Project, Plans To Launch Later in 2020
Facebook Inc., together with its partners, is now scaling back on the Libra project which was marketed as futuristic global…
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News
Facebook launches its Coronavirus Information Center in Kenya and 16 other African countries
After launching in South Africa, Facebook is now expanding its Coronavirus Information Center to 17 more countries in sub-Saharan Africa.…
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Social Media
Google and Facebook: Coronavirus Outbreak To Result In Less Content Moderation
The ongoing pandemic has had its adverse effects on the human population as well as the economy. More people have…
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Social Media
Facebook Revenues Adversely Affected By Coronavirus Pandemic Despite Usage Growth
With various countries under total lockdown, internet usage has recorded a sudden increase which is nearly overwhelming the infrastructure. Social…
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News
Facebook Sued In Australia Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Barely a year after the FTC reached an agreement with Facebook to settle the Cambridge Analytica issue, the issue is…
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Social Media
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Allowing Registration Of Domains That Could Be Mistaken For Its Products
Facebook has sued Domain registrar, Namecheap, together with WhoisGuard, the company’s proxy service. The lawsuit claims that the domain registrar…
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News
Facebook Cancels Its 2020 F8 Developer Conference Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
The Novel Coronavirus outbreak has put the world to a standstill. Conferences have been cancelled, and some companies have closed…
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Social Media
Facebook To Ban Misleading Ads On Corona Virus
Facebook will ban all ads that mislead people about the on-going novel coronavirus outbreak. The company says they will ban…
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News
Shopify Joins Facebook-led Libra Association, Months After High Profile Members Exit
Facebook Libra has received the first new member, ever since the exit trend kicked off in the wake of regulatory…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Promises To Improve User Data Security After Several Breaches
Facebook has promised that they will improve their security protocol to ensure user data is safe, after several breaches. The…
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Blockchain
Vodafone Quits Facebook Libra Association, To Focus On M-Pesa Expansion To More Countries
Facebook’s Libra project has been heavily criticized over the parent’s company issues with how it handled customer data in the…
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Apps
TikTok was the Second Most Downloaded App in 2019, Surpassing Facebook and Messenger
TikTok has been, with no doubt, one of the most popular apps in 2019. This has been advantageous to the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Phone Numbers Of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed Online In A Data Breach
Millions of Facebook users have had their data being exposed online. This follows a discovery by security researchers who found…
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Social Media
Facebook Wants To Build Its Own Operating System To Cut Reliance On Android
Being the social media giant of this era, Facebook also wants to reduce dependence on other companies and competitors as…
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Social Media
Facebook Can Still Track You Even with Location Settings Off
Facebook can still track you even with your location settings off, the company admitted in a letter to US senators.…
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Social Media
Facebook Might be Blocked From Integrating WhatsApp, Instagram, And Messenger
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced that the company plans to unify all of its three platforms – WhatsApp, Instagram, and…
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News
Facebook rebrands its parent company with a new logo
Facebook is just Facebook, but that is not true. The parent company, Facebook Inc., owns three different social media platforms,…
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Social Media
Facebook says it will let UK election candidates run false Ads
In what comes as no surprise, Facebook has said it will allow UK political candidates to run fake ads on…
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BUSINESS
Forget the Critics; Facebook Keeps Growing
Despite all the criticism thrown at Facebook, the company keeps going bigger, making ends meet in terms of revenue. The…
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Social Media
Twitter is Working on Policy Changes To Combat Deep Fakes
As good as Artificial Intelligence sounds, and actually is, it also comes with its cons. One of the biggest threats…
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Blockchain
Libra Season About to End? Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Mercado Pago Call it Quits
Barely a week after PayPal exited the Libra Association; other U.S payment companies have followed suit. As on Friday 11th,…
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Social Media
Facebook Expands its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme To 10 Countries Across Sub-Saharan Africa
After launching its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon, and Senegal, Facebook is expanding the program in…
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News
Facebook has opened a small Business Group Operations Centre in Nigeria
Facebook in partnership with Teleperformance, has announced the opening of its first Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos,…
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Blockchain
PayPal Pulls out of Facebook’s Libra Association
In addition to troubles Facebook has been going through over sceptical regulators around the world, PayPal Holdings Inc. has pulled…
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News
New Proposed Bill Will Require WhatsApp and Facebook Group Admins To Be Registered with CA
A new Bill headed to Parliament this week could require all Facebook and WhatsApp group administrators to be registered with…
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News
Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
As an update to the on-going crackdown on apps with access to user info, Facebook has suspended tens of thousands…
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Blockchain
France says it will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
Two months later since Facebook officially announced its planned launch of own cryptocurrency Libra, many jabs have been thrown at…
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CYBER SECURITY
Facebook Confirms Millions of users’ Phone Numbers have been Exposed Online
Facebook has confirmed the news reports that millions of phone numbers linked with Facebook user accounts have been exposed. The…
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Apps
Facebook Dating Service Officially Launched
After tipping its entry into the dating industry last year, Facebook has officially launched its dating platform dubbed Facebook Dating.…
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News
Facebook Also Pays Contractors to Transcribe Your Messenger Voice Messages
Enough has been said about Facebook, especially paired along with privacy matters. Despite the fines and warnings, Facebook is not…
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Apps
WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Alter Your Messages
Facebook’s popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has yet another series of flaws that could let attackers alter your messages. The…
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Social Media
Facebook Pressurized to Crack Down on Groups Seeking Fake Amazon Reviews
Facebook is a hub where a variety of activities take place ranging from business, just having fun, the list is…
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News
Facebook to Add its Name to Instagram and WhatsApp to Indicate it Owns Them
Recently Facebook has been under scrutiny by the EU over its ownership of both Instagram and WhatsApp. According to the…
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News
Big Tech Companies to Be Reviewed By the US over Anti-Competitive Practices
The US Department of Justice yesterday launched a probe to investigate big tech companies on whether they engage in anti-competitive…
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CYBER SECURITY
NSO Group’s Malware Now Capable of Spying on Data Stored in iCloud, Reports
The NSO Group, a famous Israel security firm has reportedly developed tools which can be able to scrape data from…
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Social Media
Chad Finally Lifts Social Media Ban after More than a Year
Chad has finally lifted its ban on Social media usage after banning the practice over a year ago. The ban…
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Social Media
Facebook Fined $5 Billion over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has today imposed a roughly $5 Billion fine on Facebook over the company’s most…
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Startups
Facebook, MainOne, to grace Nigeria’s #StartupSouth5 conference
Social media giant, Facebook, and West Africa’s largest cable data provider, MainOne is among the top tech companies that will…
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Apps
Upcoming WhatsApp feature will enable you to share your WhatsApp status to Facebook and Instagram
Facebook will soon let you share your WhatsApp stories to different platforms. Rolled as a beta-feature on June 24, the…
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Blockchain
Threads: Twitter fans pour out on Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra
Facebook announced its new digital wallet Libra yesterday in a move to provide minimum to low transaction costs in terms…
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Apps
Facebook to start ranking comments based on feedback
Facebook, in a push to make the community more meaningful to its users, has introduced a comment ranking feature. The…
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News
Facebook cryptocurrency backed by Visa, MasterCard, Uber, and PayPal
Facebook has been working on its cryptocurrency for some time now. Unlike the regular cryptocurrencies, the company’s crypto coin will…
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Apps
Facebook wants to pay you in exchange for your personal data
Your privacy and personal data is currently at stake with Facebook if you value the pennies the company will offer.…
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News
Facebook’s new Cryptocurrency may be launched this month
In case you aren’t aware of Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions that have been speculating around, the project will be presented to…
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Gadgets
Facebook bans its apps from being pre-installed on Huawei devices
Huawei devices will no longer have Facebook apps pre-installed. This is just an additional drop to the already existing sea…
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News
Firefox deepens privacy protection with default third-party cookie blocking
Dave Camp Firefox’s Senior Vice President in a blog post stated that “we feel that the time is right for…
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Social Media
Facebook goes after personality quizzes to fight data leaks
As part of its commitment to privacy and security and also stop data leaks, Facebook has announced that it is…
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News
Facebook AI researchers create the world’s most detailed population density maps of Africa
Facebook is working closely with key non-profit and research partners to use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to address…
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Social Media
New WhatsApp update stops people from adding you to groups without your permission – here’s how to activate it
I belong to the group of people who hates WhatsApp groups. In fact, I think I am in less than…
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Social Media
Facebook stored up to 600 million user passwords in plain text
By now you have probably heard of the scary news of how Facebook stored millions of user’s passwords in plain…
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News
Vodacom and Facebook partner to launch Facebook Flex in Lesotho
Vodacom has announced a new partnership with Facebook to launch Facebook Flex, a connectivity service that allows peoples to stay…
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News
Facebooks opening its first Sub-Saharan Africa Content Review Centre in Kenya
Facebook is opening its first content review centre in Sub-Saharan Africa in Nairobi Kenya. The company has partnered with Samasource…
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News
Facebook partners with African NGOs for Safer Internet Day 2019
Tomorrow, on 5th February the world will be celebrating Safer Internet Day (SID) 2019, a day set aside to promote…
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INFOGRAPHICS
Facebook’s growing momentum in Africa (Infographic)
2018 saw Facebook grow its momentum and step up its investment in Africa. Today, more than 139 million people across…
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News
Cellulant patners with Facebook to launch Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences on Messenger
Pan-African Payments company, Cellulant, has built Africa’s first Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences in Facebook Messenger. As part of…
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Social Media
Instagram wants to share your location history data with Facebook
Instagram is apparently testing a new setting that will allow it to share your location data with its parent company…
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Social Media
Facebook launches its fact-checking tool in Kenya to fight fake news
Facebook has announced a new partnership with Africa Check; Africa’s first independent fact-checking organisation and AFP, to launch its first…
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News
Internet Society Partners with Facebook to Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa
The Internet Society is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa. An Internet Exchange Point is…
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Social Media
Six Kenyans selected for Facebook Community Leadership Program
Six Kenyans are among the 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Program. Unveiled…
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Social Media
Grow Your Business Sales with Social Media in 2018
Social media has changed the traditional ways of marketing of the business. In 2018, again you have a chance to…
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Social Media
Are You Selling Candles or Light? Insights from Social Media Week Nairobi
Once upon a time, there was a town with two candle makers. One of the candle makers was called John…
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News
Facebook is working on a ‘’Clear History’’ feature that will let you delete all your browsing history
Facebook has announced that it is working a new Clear History feature that will enable users to cookies and history.…
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News
Facebook is reportedly testing Messenger payments in India
It seems like Facebook is looking for more ways to make money other than just advertising. The social network is…
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News
Facebook wants to give you more control over your data, but will it really do so?
We are all aware of the happenings that have been going on around Facebook over the last couple of weeks.…
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News
Facebook has suspended jubilee linked data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has suspended political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica after finding out the company had violated data privacy policies. Facebook…
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Social Media
How to remain relevant in the Facebook age of meaningful social interactions
With Facebook announcing that it is pushing brand and publisher content out of news feeds, how can businesses, especially small…
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News
Growing Africa’s digital ecosystem by bringing high touch to high tech
The international tech community is nurturing Africa’s digital ecosystem by supporting skills development, technology adoption and the growth of digital…
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Social Media
Facebook is now offering free audio tracks and sound effects for video makers.
Are you a content creator and always worried about uploading videos on Facebook or Instagram that contains copyrighted music? Well,…
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Social Media
How to Grow Your Small Business by Using Social Media Effectively
Everyone is acquainted with the significance of social media in every aspect of life. It is to be considered in…
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Social Media
Facebook is testing a subscription tool for Instant Articles on Android
Well, most of you probably saw this coming from Facebook but yes, the company is testing a news subscription tool…
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Social Media
Facebook is rolling out funded shows for ‘Watch’.
A couple of weeks ago, Facebook introduced Watch, a new platform for shows on Facebook. Watch, according to the social…
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Social Media
Facebook and Instagram were down yesterday, here’s why
Most of you probably did not notice this but Facebook and Instagram were temporarily down for a few hours yesterday.…
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News
Facebook announces winners of its First Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge
Facebook has finally unveiled the winners of its Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge for developers across the Middle East and…
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