It’s nothing new that tech companies compete among themselves, when it’s about acquiring a new company. Social media giant Facebook planned to acquire drone maker company Titan Aerospace, but all on a sudden beating Facebook, internet search giant Google has acquired it.
Last month, Facebook unveiled a new outlook for its News Feed. But Facebook has found that almost its every users’ News Feed is filled with a lot of spams. Therefore, now Facebook has decided to punish those pages that ask for ‘Like’ or ‘Share’.
Facebook has a knack of releasing multiple apps covering the totality of its services. While the messaging functionality is available in the main Facebook app right now, the company is now removing it, forcing users to download its Messenger app too.
Twitter is rolling out Facebook-alike new design (profile and cover photo and overall look) to its users. all. And lately, Twitter has announced that it is rolling the new design to its users.
Although having very high security, hackers have been found breaching into many systems. So, to protect itself from being hacked, Facebook has built a security-focused framework called ThreatData. It’ll help Facebook investigate, analyze and combat Internet threats.
In one of the most surprising moves in recent tech history, Facebook has announced that it is acquiring Oculus VR for $2 billion. The sudden deal will leave the development of the Oculus Rift unobstructed.
Social media leader Facebook has released a new open-source language called Hack. It integrates with the ever-popular language PHP and it’ll allow Facebook engineers write code faster while more easily avoiding common programming errors.
Facebook recently rolled out a major design update for its News Feed. The social network is now expanding the scope of this redesign to Pages, which look more ‘streamlined’ as part of the update.