Techcrunch reports that Facebook is preparing to allow brands and businesses to solicit business using Facebook Messenger, which currently boasts 800 million active users. The news comes from a leaked document which Facebook has reportedly sent to major advertisers, suggesting that the new feature may be introduced in the second quarter this year. Businesses will […]
Facebook has announced that they have started building a data centre in Ireland. The new data centre will be their second one in Europe and sixth overall, following on from Luleå in Sweden. The location they’ve chosen is Clonee, County Meath. The artist’s impression of the facility gives a good impression of size. It’s pretty big! […]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have just welcomed their baby daughter Max. And they’ve announced that they are going to follow the example of Bill and Melinda Gates by setting up a foundation to give away 99% of their Facebook shares over the course of their lifetime. In a 2000 word open […]
“If you could change the price of one thing to lift up the lives of the world’s poorest people, it would be the price of energy.” – Bill Gates [youtube]https://youtu.be/MzDE8rTRqY4[/youtube] As the Climate Conference gets underway in Paris, Bill Gates publishes this video to explain the rationale for the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, formed with other […]
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old who built a digital clock to impress his teacher and got arrested because police and school authorities thought it was a hoax bomb, has revealed that he is still suspended by the school. Neither has he received an apology from the school but it doesn’t matter, he told a press conference, because he is […]
Last October, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Safety Check while on a visit to Tokyo. It’s meaningful to be in Tokyo to announce this because the great earthquake and tsunami a few years ago inspired us to build the first version of this for Japan. Now we’re glad to have this ready to serve everyone […]
Fans of Gaelic Football might not agree with Mark Zuckerberg’s characterisation of the game as one of the world’s “really obscure and unexpected sports“, but it’s probably fair enough on a global scale. The Facebook founder was showing an example of an AI system developed by the company’s AI research team, which can identify what […]
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004. That was a different world, and Facebook has played a part in shaping the world of today. But imagine if ‘The Facebook’ (as Zuckerberg originally planned to call it) had been launched in 1995. [youtube]http://youtu.be/jYd_5aggzd4[/youtube] Too young to remember 1995? It’s a parody of this real commercial for AOL. Related articles Mark […]
A Deloitte report released today analyses Facebook’s impact on the global economy. Some headline takeaways: Facebook enabled $227bn of economic impact Enabled 4.5m jobs globally in 2014. The full report, which was commissioned by Facebook, goes into more detail about how Facebook’s impact was felt in various regions of the world, but the graphic below […]
Over the past few days leaders in technology and celebrities have been pouring buckets of ice water over themselves to raise awareness for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). So Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg did it a couple of days ago: http://youtu.be/6TTpXKFBkjk and threw down the gauntlet to Bill Gates. Gates really took the challenge seriously and designed […]
