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Companies use Facebook’s advertising algorithms to discriminate
A new report by ProPublica reveals that Facebook’s job recruitment ads are discriminating against job seekers based on their age.
Why is Facebook’s iOS app so bloated?
Facebook’s app weighs in at more than 380 MB when you download it from the iOS App Store. Is it time to just get rid of Facebook altogether?
Why you need to stop comparing Snap to Facebook
Snap’s short life as a public company took a turn for the worse this week. While dramatic slides in value aren’t unprecedented for new publicly traded social firms, Snap does have some perception problems to address.
Facebook nears 2 billion users, warns ad growth will slow
Facebook outperformed financial projections for the eighth consecutive quarter and is closing in on more than 2 billion monthly users. However, the company says expect ad growth to slow.
Banking bots highlight conversational commerce trend
Western Union has built a chatbot that lets consumers wire money by conversing with a digital assistant in Facebook Messenger.
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Can the iPhone make better AR than Facebook and Snapchat? | The iPhone Show
Facebook and Snapchat have big ambitions around mobile augmented reality, but Apple might be the company that makes it actually useful.
How Facebook plans to bring Messenger to business
Speaking at the Collision conference this week, Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky said the company remains committed to making Messenger a multi-purpose platform.
Facebook's text understanding AI is coming to a phone near you
Developers have a new tool to help mobile apps understand text, thanks to a Facebook open source project update on Tuesday. The social networking company’s AI research group released a new version of FastText, a programming library...
Can the enterprise save Facebook bots?
Facebook’s bumpy introduction of bot capabilities inside its Messenger service may be saved by an unlikely candidate: business users.
Facebook aims to crush Snapchat with augmented reality
Facebook's efforts to embed camera functionality in all the apps it runs isn’t just a push to crush Snapchat. The company will be using those cameras as a way to create a developer platform for augmented reality, CEO Mark Zuckerberg...
Facebook levels up its identity tools for developers
Facebook’s popular app login tools are getting an update to better serve international users, the company announced Tuesday.
Facebook will let companies map online browsing to real-world sales
Retailers who want to know what brought people to shop in their physical retail stores have a new tool to try. Facebook has revised its analytics tools for businesses to show how user behavior online translates into brick-and-mortar...
Facebook's war on Snap borrows from its Twitter playbook
Snap's successful IPO has only caused Facebook to turn up the heat on the ephemeral messaging company. In doing so, the leading social network is employing tactics similar to those used against Twitter.
Facebook's M assistant launches in US, will offer chat suggestions
More than a year after introducing a virtual assistant in its Messenger app, Facebook is launching M to the masses. While it was originally conceived as a bot that users would chat with, M now only offers a set of suggestions that are...
Facebook's rocket ship icon is a test flight for a secondary news feed
If your Facebook feed has a rocket-ship icon, it's because the social media platform is testing a secondary news feed with users worldwide.
Will Facebook putting ‘Stories’ everywhere crack Snapchat?
Facebook has replicated a core feature of Snapchat and delivered a nearly identical version of Stories to all four of its major apps. Some call it copycatting. Others say it's just good business.
Facebook criticizes ad industry’s reliance on ‘proxy metrics’
Facebook’s operations and finance chiefs praised third-party measurement tools at a Morgan Stanley conference while criticizing the ad industry’s myopic view of what should be measured.
Facebook launches fake news reporting tool in Germany
Facebook plans to deploy a tool to deal with fake news in Germany in the coming weeks, after announcing tests of the tool last month.
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