Birthdays on Facebook have become a dystopian chore. Typing “HBD” or just “Happy Birthday!” on a friend’s profile is basically the least human way to interact with them. So Facebook is pushing people to record more intimate greetings with its new Birthday Cam feature launching today on iOS.

Facebook wants to get everybody online, whether that’s through regular networks or high-flying drones. But to do that, it has to know where people actually are. The best population maps available today aren’t precise enough for Facebook’s needs. So instead of waiting for somebody else to build a better map for it, Facebook decided to take high-res satellite images and use…

Facebook is expanding its live-video feature to Android users, the company announced in a blog post today. This rollout is initially for Android users based in the U.S. next week, but “more countries [are] coming soon,” Facebook confirmed.

Lets say you’ve got kids. They like Messenger for talking with other kids about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days.
You’re happy to let them use Messenger in the evenings, but they’re not quite old enough for a phone of their own just yet. What to do?
Facebook has simplified things a bit, adding support for multiple Messenger accounts on one device.

Facebook at Work — the enterprise version of Facebook that lets businesses build their own social networks — has racked up over 60,000 companies on a waiting list while still in closed beta. And as it gears up for a full global launch and new features like an app platform later this year, Facebook is announcing its newest big customer. As of today, Telenor, the carrier based…

WhatsApp now introduced Document File transfer in their Android application so that doc and pdf type files can…

Vivo along with the launch of Xplay5 Elite launched another affordable smartphone Xplay5. The Vivo Xplay5 runs Android…

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has launched a high end smartphone, Xplay5 Elite. The new smartphone looks similar to…

Social marketing company Nanigans announced today that it’s launching support for Twitter.
Nanigans is best known as a Facebook ad automation tool, but CEO Ric Calvillo said last year that one reason for raising the company’s $24 million Series B was to expand beyond Facebook. He’s also started to make good on that by launching on Instagram last August.

It doesn’t matter if it was Live if you missed it. And Facebook knows that people watch actually Live streams 3X longer than saved ones. So it’s changing the News Feed to prefer on-going broadcasts. Twitter’s big advantage with Periscope is that they’re both inherently real-time platforms. Periscopes generate notifications for all your followers there, and show up…