Tag Archives: Facebook

Did you ever Poke somebody on Facebook? Chances are most people haven’t, this is why the company has decided to remove it completely, along with the Camera which was another barely used app. The interesting thing is that Facebook removed the apps without any announcement whatsoever, but I guess they figured it wouldn’t really matter since nobody was using them ...

The recent purchase of Oculus VR by Facebook has been anything but smooth in terms of public opinion. However, it seems that Brendan Iribe – Oculus CEO – is only looking forward, announcing his plan for a billion player MMO that could only be possible with the Facebook partnership. “This is going to be an MMO where we want to ...

We posted an article not long ago which mentioned that the Oculus Rift VR headset might have been built with technology stolen from ZeniMax Media. Oculus VR denied these accusations today and have also given a list of reasons which contradict the claims coming from ZeniMax.  There is not a line of Zenimax code or any of its technology in ...

The Oculus Rift VR headset that was acquired by Facebook for $2 billion has quite an interesting story behind it. John Carmack reportedly stole technology that was crucial in the development of the Oculus from ZeniMax Media back when he used to work for them. He is best known for his work on Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, and is considered ...

Facebook announced FB Newswire this Thursday, a page containing carefully selected news and certified stories, from all across the social network’s platform. FB Newswire is the result of Facebook’s partnership with the news agency, Storyful, that aggregates all shared news content. Storyful has a team of journalists verifying news as they’re shared all over social media. Due to this new ...

A disastrous event like the Heartbleed bug is sometimes needed to convince big companies to cast aside their differences and work together. Tech giants have agreed for the first time to fund a multi-million dollar initiative that will help protect open source projects, including OpenSSL. The Core Infrastructure Initiative housed at The Linux Foundation will be a three-year effort with at ...

A new feature called “Nearby Friends” was released today by Facebook. The feature allows your friends to see how far you are from them and also allows you to share your on-going location with your friends for a while, so you can spend more time with them in a real location instead of a virtual world. Though Facebook’s new tool could ...

Instagram became more popular with its Instagram for PC app, meanwhile competing with Facebook, whose popularity is declining due to people getting bored of it, as well as some questionable management decisions in recent weeks. This is just the usual disease that affects all companies as they lose their ability to sustain interest in time. With the current rise of ...

Facebook continues to surprise us. The company is preparing to join the mobile-payments race with deliveries and electronic money services on the social network, services that will allow users to store money on Facebook for payments and exchanges. The company already had partnership talks with three London start-ups, the TransferWise, Moni Technologies and Azimo, which offer online and mobile international ...

If until now, downloading Messenger for iOS or Android was an option to message inside Facebook, that’s not going to be an option anymore. Facebook started to notify users they’ll no longer have the option to send or receive messages and will have to download Facebook Messenger to chat on mobile from now on. It all started a few months ...