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Social media giant Facebook has unveiled its new company logo as part of the rebranding efforts. Facebook says that the new branding strategy is to bring more clarity and align the goals of its different products and services under one parent company.In its official announcement, the company said that over the last 15 years, it has made several major acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp. Thus, to bring clarity that these services operate under Facebook, it is isolating the Facebook...

Photo: PixabayPolitical wars forced Twitter to distance itself from misinformation that usually pops up during elections. Head of Twitter Jack Dorsey seems to continue his quest to make the Internet a better place. After a prominent Bitcoin advocate had recently invested in a cryptocurrency-related venture called CoinList, he is now on the way to cut all political ads off on Twitter.The vast majority of so-called conspiracy theories made public via those ads probably came from wise...

Facebook is one of the most attacked companies in the world as it always seems to be swimming in one legal or regulatory battle or the other (especially in relation to its Libra project), at pretty much every point in time. However, the social media giant is still also one of the world’s most successful companies and has proven it time and again, most recently with its recent third-quarter earnings figures. Facebook’s numbers exceeded expectations and well enough for its stock (FB) to hit...

Just a few days after Facebook officially announced its News feature in collaboration with more than a few major media outfits, the social media giant has announced the launch of a new tool but this time in the health department. The new offering will work in collaboration with several health organizations in the U.S. to help people access health resources much easier as well as design ways to prevent health issues.Dubbed “Preventive Health”, the tool will also set up reminders for users to...

It just over 7 years that social media giant Facebook decided to conduct an IPO. Since then, Facebook (FB) stock has been one of the favorite picks for investors looking for handsome returns.If we look at the Facebook stock price chart since May 2012, we can see a steady rise with minor swings until July 2018. It was in July last year when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out showing Facebook’s alleged breach of data and user privacy. The FB stock took a massive hammering losing 33% of...

Over the years, Facebook has had more than its fair share of problems that revolve around the privacy and authenticity of the content found on its platform. There have been many cases of reported breaches causing private data of many of its users to fall into the hands of others, without the users’ consent. There have also been stories surrounding the dissemination of a lot of false or harmful information and even advertisements, on Facebook.On Wednesday, during a biting hearing for...

In what has been seen by many to be a gutsy move Facebook is set to create a separate tab on users’ timelines for news which will be driven by content from major news organizations. Sources indicate that as early as tomorrow the tab will be available on users’ timelines and that the news will come from high authority websites that are owned by major news organizations.This new initiative is just what Mark Zuckerberg previewed during his testimony. “Later in this week we actually have a big...