Tag: Facebook
Facebook is Building a Meme Hub to Connect with Shrinking Teen Demographic
Facebook knows that it is not trendy to kids unlike before and they have to find a way to connect to them. This next...
Facebook Activates Safety Check After Riverside Drive Attack
Facebook has opened Safety Check for residents in Nairobi after the horrifying Riverside Drive attack that happened today in the afternoon.
Facebook's Safety Check is a feature...
Facebook is Rating and Punishing Advertisers Based on Customer Feedback
Facebook's business plan is simple. Have a free platform where people sign up and in return, they harvest your data that is used as...
Instagram to Let Users Share Posts to Multiple Accounts, Adds Google Photos Shortcut
Instagram iOS app now lets you share posts to multiple accounts in one sitting or at least for some users just like how the...
How to Reduce the Amount of Data Facebook Collects on You
Facebook privacy scandals that rocked 2018 revealed a lot of the data they have on us. This led to some of its users to...
Apple Stumbles, HTC Struggles and Microsoft Thrives
Apple revised its revenue guidance for its fiscal 2019 first quarter. This is the first time they're cutting this since 2002. Apple lowered its...
Facebook Will Still Follow You Even After You’ve Turned off Location History
Facebook's mishandling of user data has made it receive backlash after backlash. It has tried to give users control over what data the giant...
This Facebook Privacy Feature Was Announced in May. It Is yet to Be Launched
This Facebook privacy feature was announced in May during their annual F8 conference. It's now been seven months - what's going on? This privacy...
Facebook’s People You May Know Suggestions Used This Loophole
Facebook’s People You May Know mystery has finally been revealed at least according to the 250 pages’ worth of Facebook documents published by a...
I’m not deleting my Facebook and Instagram accounts. Here’s what I’m doing instead
Facebook and Instagram recently launched their 'Time Well Spent' features that let users know how much time they've spent on the apps. I decided...
Apple Is Still the Most Valuable Company, Microsoft Comes Second
Late last week, it was reported that Microsoft had dethroned Apple to become the most valuable US company. It was just for a brief...
Is It Worth It Knowing How Much Time You’ve Spent on Facebook, Instagram?
Early this August, social media giant Facebook released tools that let you measure how much time you spend on Facebook and Instagram. The features...
Why Facebook App Updates Don’t Have a Changelog
Those with a keen eye have noticed that Facebook does not include any changelog to the numerous updates they push. This has been a...
Facebook’s Creepy Patent Suggests Friends By Wirelessly Sensing Phones
Companies usually file patents all the time and they can be very interesting when you dive into the details. Facebook is not new to...
Facebook’s Earnings Call Reveals Stunted User Growth, Shifts Focus to Stories
According to Facebook’s earnings call this past week, the social network reported less revenue and even fewer new users. Its audience actually shrunk in...
IBM to Acquire Red Hat, Tim Cook Calls out Tech Giants and Google to Offer Users More Privacy Controls
IBM is set to acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion in its big leap into hybrid cloud.
3D Memes are the Future thanks to Facebook’s 3D Photos
Memes are a popular form of content that we see on social networking sites and they come in various forms: videos, photos, GIFs and...
PesaCheck Joins Facebook’s List of Fact Checking Partners in Kenya
Facebook has confirmed that PesaCheck will join the list of organizations that will help in fact checking articles on the platform in Kenya.
PesaCheck is...
Facebook’s Portal is a Privacy Breach in Waiting, Microsoft Declares Love for Linux, We Learn That Google+ Isn’t Really...
Facebook Portal is the social media giant’s entry into the hardware realm. Facebook launched both Portal and Portal+, their new voice-controlled, video-calling device that...
How to Check If Your Facebook Account Was Affected by the Data Breach
On the night of 12th October (EAT), Facebook released more info about the data breach that affected its users. The massive security breach was...
Amazon, Apple Deny Hacking Claims, Instagram Gets a New Boss and Facebook is Already Sticking Its Dirty Fingers Into...
Early last week, Bloomberg Businessweek wrote a bombshell report on how Chinese spies had used tiny rogue chips embedded in Super Micro servers that...
Facebook Partners With Africa Check and AFP to Fact Check News in Kenya
Facebook today has announced that they are launching third party fact checking in Kenya to help assess the accuracy of news being disseminated in...
How to Safeguard Your Facebook Account After the Data Breach
Last Friday, Facebook announced that they had experienced a data breach and attackers had collected information from over 50 million accounts via "access tokens"...
Inventor of The Web Fires Cannons Against Tech Giants While Instagram Founders Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg
Instagram's Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unfriend Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
Kevin and Mike called it quits on the photo-sharing platform which they founded in 2010 and...
6 Kenyans to Receive Facebook Millions for Community Leadership
Facebook announced the Community Leadership Program in February which was the company's project to empower 'leaders who are building communities around the world.' Since...
Facebook Officially Starts Dating, Instagram Pulls Out on Regramming, Twitter Leaked DMs and Alexa Clearly Has No Type
Facebook Dating begins testing in Colombia
Facebook Dating which was announced in May began testing early last week in Colombia. The online dating product lives...
Apple Has Some Not-So-New iPhones, Google Discontinues the Email App No One Used and EU Wants to Kill the...
On Wednesday last week, Apple introduced new iPhones - there was no huge announcements as this is the S year from Apple products -...
Here are Kenya’s Most Engaging Pages on Facebook
When it comes to social media usage, the trend has moved from just person to person interaction but brands have also found a haven...
Facebook’s YouTube Competitor Launched Globally
Facebook is not playing around this time
Facebook Expanding Express Wi-Fi With New Partner Ecosystem Program
Facebook is going on the next step with its Express Wi-Fi initiative where they announced a new program called Express Wi-Fi Certified.
Express Wi-Fi Certified will...
