Facebook Messenger gets Video calling feature

Facebook appears to be on the fast lane and wants to host your next video call with its video calling in Messenger. You can have face-to-face conversations with your friends and the people you care about, via Messenger, just like you would do on Skype, Google Hangouts and Facetime.

Facebook launches dedicated web interface for its Messenger platform

Today, Facebook launched Messenger.com as a dedicated chat interface. It’s rolling out worldwide for English users, with support for more languages to come soon.

Facebook plans to connect parts of the world to the Internet with drones

Facebook is moving ahead with its plan to connect the next 5 billion people to the Web with drones.

Facebook is down for some users now for maintenance

Facebook has been down for at least an hour for some users, according to reports on social media now. The outage has affected some but not all users of the platform. 

For Android developers: Facebook launches three new Open-Source tools

As part if its F8 event exhibition line-up, Facebook today, released three new open source tools for Android developers. The first is a performance segmentation library called Year Class that is meant to help developers quickly figure out what kind of device a user is running.

Facebook now lets you Embed Facebook Videos On Other Sites

Facebook wants to be your source for everything, whether or not you’re actually on Facebook.Today at F8, An event organised by Facebook, the tech company introduced the ability to embed Facebook videos on other websites.

New Facebook feature "On This Day" shows you posts from the past

Facebook today unveiled a new feature that lets users look back at photos and posts from the current calendar date in past years.

You can now send money to your friends on Facebook

When you chat with friends about settling debts or splitting the bill, Facebook doesn’t want you to have to open another app like PayPal to send them money.

Social media prediction by Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook cofounder, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday, January 14, held a public town hall in Columbia In addition to announcing a new initiative to give free basic Internet access to everyone in the country, he answered a question about the future of the Internet.

Facebook at work pilot debuts today on the Web, Android and iOS

Facebook today debuted Facebook at Work, a new pilot program the company is testing to try its hand at social networking in the business world. The product is only available to select partners on the web, as well as Android and iOS apps available on Google Play and Apple’s App Store.

Join the largest learning event in history-The Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is organized by Code.org, a public non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science by making it available in more schools, and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of colour.

Instagram gains 300 million active users, grows bigger than twitter

Instagram announced Wednesday that it now has more than 300 million monthly active users, up from 200 million in March.