
The F8 Developer Conference is over: Here’s everything Facebook announced
Facebook hosted its annual F8 Conference for developers this week, with Mark Zuckerberg taking the stage on the first day. The CEO...

Facebook Messenger rolls out AR and other enhancements at its F8 developer conference
Businesses send and receive 8 billion messages through Messenger every month. The ability for businesses to create bots in the Messenger...

Facebook unveils new analytics features, including a tool to track the omnichannel journey
new analytics features — including a tool to track customer journeys through multiple channels — on Tuesday at its F8 developer...

What’s different about digital marketing in the cannabis industry?
The cannabis industry is one of the fastest-growing in the US, with a diverse and exciting startup landscape. And yet, it faces an uphill...

Facebook Spaces & the risky virtualization of retail
During Facebook’s annual F8 conference — which had to happen seven times before I decided “F8” was a play on “fate,” despite Wikipedia...

Facebook’s F8: Everything you need to know [Podcast]
So much Facebook news this week, right? Where do you begin trying to figure out what happened at its annual developer conference, F8, and...

Hands on with Facebook’s AR Studio to create Snapchat-like camera effects
Facebook ramped up its run at Snapchat this week. The company even raced ahead of its rival by opening up its new Camera Effects Platform...

Facebook now lets businesses match user IDs across Messenger and their own apps, sites
Boring story made interesting: If you contact a brand though Facebook Messenger and also log in to the brand’s mobile app using your...

Facebook’s renamed analytics tool now tracks Pages, in-store purchases
Two years after introducing a rival to Google Analytics, albeit a limited one, Facebook is renaming Analytics for Apps as Facebook...

Watch: Facebook previews its first social VR product, Facebook Spaces
Last year at its annual developer conference, Facebook teased what the social network could look like in virtual reality. On Tuesday at...

Facebook Messenger makes chatbots easier to find and use with new Discover tab, Chat Extensions
There are more than 100,000 chatbots on Facebook Messenger, but most of the 1.2 billion people who use the social network’s messaging...

Inside chatbots’ year of growing pains: ‘We’re at an inflection point’
A year ago, chatbots reemerged atop a mountain of hype that messaging marked tech’s latest paradigm shift, after messaging apps...

Watch Facebook’s CTO take a selfie in virtual reality
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer demos the virtual reality version of Facebook. When Facebook bought Oculus VR in 2014, one of the first...

Facebook talks VR at Facebook F8 keynote
Hello from F8, Facebook’s annual developers conference. It’s time for the day two keynote. Actually, it’s already happened now — our live...

Facebook exposes Page posts’ Reaction counts through new API
Brands are about to get a much better idea of how people feel about feel about their Facebook posts and who those people are. In late...

Facebook Messenger positioned as replacement for mobile web, apps & SMS
As expected, at Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, the company announced Messenger Platform for third-party developers. It also...

Facebook brings its Instapaper-like Save button to wider web
Facebook is rolling out its Instapaper-like bookmarking tool, Save, to the wider web. When Facebook rolled out its Save button in July...

Facebook’s Messenger Platform launched, allows businesses to build bots
Facebook wants to ensure that Messenger is the new way that businesses can connect with people, pushing the platform and new bot support...

Facebook Plans To Open Messenger To Publishers At F8 In April
Mobile messaging apps are usurping social networks as the shiny new platform through which publishers can distribute their content. Now,...
























