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An email from The Bot Platform alerted us to some changes Facebook is making to Messenger ¬with the arrival of Messenger v2.3.

Facebook has finally unveiled its first two smart speakers: the Portal and Portal+. Well, we say smart 'speakers' - like Amazon's Echo Show, these devices have screens built in too. Facebook's new devices are available...

Facebook has announced the official launch of its ‘Premieres’ format, which enables people to “release a pre-recorded video as a live moment” on the social network. The idea being that new videos can be turned in...

With Facebook having secured a raft of music-licensing deals for user-generated content (UGC), we’re gradually finding out what the social network plans to do with them. We’ve heard about Lip Sync Live, the Musical.ly...

In a busy day for Facebook news, the company unveiled the latest virtual-reality headset from its Oculus VR division. It’s called the Oculus Quest, and will go on sale in the spring of 2019 starting at $399. Like this...

This week’s news that Instagram’s two co-founders are leaving the company sparked several reports on the tensions between them and parent company Facebook. Now the co-founder of another prominent Facebook acquisition,...

The ‘stories’ format within social apps is now a pillar of the social-media world, having been pioneered by Snapchat, then copied and developed by Instagram and others. Facebook included: it has ‘stories’ in its main...

Remember when Facebook was going to release its own smart speaker? Plans to debut the device earlier this year were reportedly put on hold, at the height of the furore around user privacy and data-scraping apps on its platform.

‘Taking a break’ from social media feels like an increasingly-common phenomenon, from our personal experience. Now there’s some data to back it up as a trend. The Pew Research Center has been asking Americans about...

In a year of enhanced scrutiny of internet companies, the latest example is a group of British broadcasters lobbying for Facebook, Google and Twitter to face more regulation by a new watchdog created specifically for the...

Facebook launched its Facebook Watch portal in the US last August, providing a new home within its service for professionally-produced video and shows. A year later, the feature is going global.

As part of its concerted efforts to clear rights for music in a UGC context on Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Oculus, the social media giant has now signed deals covering Australia and New Zealand. The deal with APRA...