News & Reviews: Facebook
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Feb 21, 2020
Want to earn some extra income recently? Yesterday, Facebook announced that they will be offering to pay users for voice recordings to help improve its speech recognition technology after being caught transcribing without the user’s consent.
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Jan 31, 2020
With something as serious as the coronavirus happening, it's important to know what news is legit or fake. Just two days ago, our own Ministry of Health sent out a list of the fake news that's been going around. In the same way, Facebook is taking steps to limit the spreading of false information.
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Jan 29, 2020
Due to all the criticism it has garnered in regards to online privacy, Facebook has been working to introduce new measures to either improve on this area or make its users more aware. One of its latest method is the Off-Facebook Activity tool, which allows users to see what third-party sites are sharing with Facebook in regards to your activities outside of Facebook.
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Jan 24, 2020
It seems that Facebook is currently testing WhatsApp’s dark mode, which is good news because not only does it use less battery on certain smartphones, but it also strains the eyes a lot less as well. If you are interested in testing out the dark mode for yourself, you will have to download a beta version of WhatsApp which can be found on the Google Play Store.
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Jan 20, 2020
If you have a sharp eye, you would notice that the IGTV icon has disappeared on your Instagram main menu. First introduced about two years ago as a new platform for video content creators, but it looks like nobody really cares and this is not a mistake. In fact, it seems that only 1% of users actually tap on the IGTV button on the main user interface.
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Jan 20, 2020
Translation software has improved over the years but the one on the Facebook platform still seems to have some issues. During a visit to Myanmar recently, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s was mistranslated as "Mr Sh**hole" on Facebook. The company has explained that this is due to a technical error in the translation.
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Jan 17, 2020
In May 2019, Facebook announced that it will start selling ads on WhatsApp in 2020. However, it seems like the company has decided to drop that plan. Facebook has since disbanded the team that was formed to work on this project and remove all related coding from the app itself.
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Jan 17, 2020
For those who are curious about what apps performed best last year, App Annie has released a report for it called State of Mobile 2020. This time around, Facebook is the big winner having four of its apps listed in the Top Apps Ranking. They are Facebook Messenger (1st), Facebook (2nd), WhatsApp Messenger (3rd), and Instagram (5th).
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Jan 14, 2020
vivo, as well as TNTCO, has officially announced that you could get a 15% discount on your TNTCO purchase if you own any vivo smartphone. Only purchases made at the TNTCO store in Pandan Indah from 13 January until 29 February 2020 will be eligible for the aforementioned promo.
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Jan 13, 2020
We can’t deny that this is the age for the digital economy to thrive. With more and more businesses going online, different types of products and services become easier to reach customers in the most effective ways. For that, Facebook has done the research and discovered Asia as the region to have the most growth potential in the digital economy industry.
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