Facebook’s recent earnings report surprised no one by confirming that the platform continues to be incredibly rich and popular. One of the more interesting facts: Facebookers now watch 100 million hours of video every day. Look at this This comes as Facebook seriously ups its video credentials this year. In 2015 Facebook doubled its News […]

The mysterious world Facebook's News Feed has just received an important overhaul: it now delivers content based (in part at least), on what users want to see. Like and Learn Facebook announced the update in a blog post. "The actions people take on Facebook—liking, clicking, commenting or sharing a post—are historically some of the main

Facebook is starting off 2016 with an unsubtle shot across YouTube's bow: enhanced support for 360 and Virtual Reality (VR) video. Big screen Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a video showing how Facebook's engineering wizards have managed to compress the huge 360 video files, so they play seamlessly in the News Feed. Which means no more

Love them or loathe them, Facebook's Reaction emojis aren't going away anytime soon – they've just got a global thumbs up from the social network. Smiley face Reaction emojis allow users to select a variety of emojis when Liking a post. Emotions include laughing, shocked, love, and anger.  The feature was first tested in Spain

Facebook is testing the waters with a new feature that's already being described as a potential Yelp-killer. It goes by the unassuming name of Professional Services. Reviews all round The feature lets users search for a wide range business services in a specific area. For example, you might want to research plumbers in Montreal, or

Facebook continues to court our eyeballs with a new experiment: multiple news feeds on mobile. News flash Now select mobile users will see multiple News Feeds on Facebook's official app, based around different topics and users. The feed works in a similar way to Facebook's Paper app, with featured topics include "Style" and "Travel". Mobile

Facebook is reportedly testing a new twist on real-time comments: letting users know when they're friends are writing comments so they can instantly respond. Look Who's Talking At this stage select mobile users are seeing the "A friend is writing a comment" alert when viewing the News Feed on an iOS smartphone or tablet. Responses

Do you pride yourself on how quickly you respond to customer comments on Facebook? Now you can show the world how awesome you are with Facebook’s latest updates. Quick Time Last year Facebook added a feature to Pages called the “Very Responsive Indicator”, which only applied to brands that replied to 90% of customer queries

As 2016 slowly kicks into gear, it seems fitting to take a squiz look at the biggest kid on the block – Facebook. With 2015 delivering record profits and an expanded reach of the social network, what’s in store for the next 12 months? Read on to find out where Zuckerberg and co. might be