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"Facebook is making strides towards becoming a multi-media communication juggernaut, its head of Messenger David Marcus announced today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Out of Messenger's one-billion users, 300 million people use its audio and video calling features each month. That's around the size of Skype's entire user base. Facebook is uniquely well-suited to disrupting traditional home and mobile phone voice calling and their successor, video calling. It has the most complete social graph of family, friends, and acquaintances - going beyond what's in most people's phone contacts. It has a one-billion user chat app where people are already spending tons of time. And it has the technology infrastructure to support high-bandwidth transmissions."

Facebook changes all emails on profiles to @facebook.com

Consumers can use the app to buy and send a friend a Nivea gift set, which will be wrapped in personalised wrapping paper featuring photos they have both been tagged in on Facebook. The free wrapping paper will also include comments they have made on each other's Facebook walls

Hotels.com, in partnership with Columbus Internet, recently launched the first in-Facebook affiliate program through their joint app "Hotels WithMe." Facebook page owners can install the app and earn revenue when bookings are made through it. At this time the app is only available in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Sweden and Germany.

Few people were going to Facebook pages already, fewer were clicking on the tabs, and now it will be nearly zero. Way to push brands to use more facebook ads?

facebook integration lets users see friends comments and recommendations on articles and most popular articles, log on with facebook info daily 8.31

More kids flocking to Facebook. Raises implications about child protection, privacy, and parenting. Being deemed mature enough for a Facebook account a new rite of passage?

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Noid, the irksome and hyper Domino's character who was best avoided in TV commercials that began airing in 1986. To celebrate, Domino's has brought the character back-on Facebook. He's the star of a new Facebook game from Crispin Porter + Bogusky called Noid's Super Pizza Shootout.

Oscar de la Renta is launched its first fragrance in 10 years via Facebook. The article also references a Marc Jacobs scent launched on Facebook last year. OdlR is giving away 5,000 samples of the fragrance through FB over the next few weeks.

i like the way this guy thinks. sued facebook for $1 to make a point after he was labeled as spam and couldnt contact anyone at Facebook to fix it

hitting the "like" button on facebook and what it means for retailiers. building a bigger fanbase within facebook = more traffic to their website.

"Facebook has been showing a survey to users within the social network. Users can take this survey if they want to - it's entirely voluntary. They'll answer questions about whether they're experiencing symptoms associated with COVID-19, such as cough or fever.  That data then gets sent to the research team at Carnegie Mellon (not Facebook), which uses it to create population models of people experiencing symptoms. The idea is that symptoms are the "precursor" to hospital visits, so an uptick in symptoms in a particular area could help officials decide where to send health resources. "The survey responses combined with other data such"

"Facebook might have found a way to get people to use a long-neglected feature: check-ins, where you announce to your friends where you are. It is testing a new service that offers local businesses free Wi-Fi through a router. To get online, customers must either check in using Facebook or get a passcode."

collaborative amazon giftcard with Facebook friends.

CNN and Facebook partnering to launch an app called I'm Voting that will enable Facebook users to commit to vote for and endorse specific candidates and issues, and their commitments will be displayed on their timelines, news feeds, and tickers.

The high-end mustard brand launched a new online marketing campaign for its Facebook page on Wednesday, in which Grey Poupon will screen fans who attempt to like the page to see if they have good enough taste to become one of the company's Facebook fans.

Plus accounts include one Facebook page and 500 image uploads per month for $5 monthly, while Pro accounts, at $20 per month, cover five Facebook pages and include unlimited images. ThingLink added that its users include Van Halen, Gucci Maine, Blink-182, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), Canadian newspaper National Post, British comedian Alan Partridge, and the U.K. music weekly NME.

Facebook relaunched Offers to replace Check-in Deals. The system for setting up an offer is pretty straightforward.

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