The Messenger experience just became more immersive, nabbing the popular Instant Articles feature from the Facebook app. Fast and friendly The latest move comes as the company continues to separate Messenger from Facebook, most recently giving the app a home screen to replace its list of active conversations. Instant Articles allows Facebook to keep users […]

Facebook has taken its first step towards solving part of the world's internet problem, introducing a new wireless access platform designed to assist remote areas. OpenCellular is currently in a testing phase, and the hardware will be made open source for other researchers and companies to join in the build process. Global community Developed to

Sometimes, size does matter. Case in point: Facebook Live streams are even longer. And they’re bigger too. Live it up As part of a recent update, Facebook announced that Live streams can now run up to four hours – double the previous two hour limit. Facebook Live now supports full-screen broadcasts in landscape and portrait

While Silicon Valley may be the centre of the tech universe, New Zealand is frequently first to try all sorts of new features from Facebook and other major players. So today we’re looking at Facebook stats from the land of the Long White Cloud. Kiwiana Today over 2 million Kiwis log in to Facebook every

Who says we can't all just get along? In the spirit of social cooperation, Facebook Messenger has just released an Uber-related update. Born to Ride Messenger users can now book an UberPOOL ride directly from the app.  To get riding, you start a conversation in Messenger then select the three-dot menu button.  After clicking 'Request

Online Circle Digital has just released its Mid-Year Australian Facebook Performance Report for 2016. Through the analysis of 30 different industries and over 2600 Australian brand accounts, the report ranks the largest and most engaged Facebook accounts in Australia, using data from January 1 to June 30 this year. Which brands performed best? The report reveals

Facebook now counts over 11,000 bots on the company's Messenger Platform, and the number is growing. Over 23,000 developers have signed up to the Wit.ai Bot Engine, and Facebook hopes its new features will entice even more to the platform. The right answers Facebook has addressed criticism that bots would ignore relevant questions, such as

Back in November Facebook for non-profits launched, a resource designed to help non-profits better communicate their story on the social network. Now Facebook allows anyone to fundraise for non-profits. Mr Nice Guy Select users can create a Facebook Page to raise cash for US-based non-profits, and non-profits can also organise users to raise funds on

In a bid to make it easier to reach more of Facebook's 1.28 billion users, the social network now lets you translate posts into different languages. Chatterbox Now when you compose a post, Facebook automatically scans it and offers to translate into another language. If you translate your post from English to Italian, only users

Facebook Events has just got a quaint, almost old-fashioned update. Humans, not algorithms, are now curating and recommending upcoming events. The Human Touch Dubbed "Featured Events", this update available on iOS to Facebookers across 10 US cities. Until now, events were automatically selected based on your location, preferences and history. Now a bunch of Facebook