Facebook Steps Into Fitness Tracking With Moves App Acquisition
…to integrate the app with other Facebook services or share data at this time. For those of you that use the Moves app – the Moves experience will continue to operate as a standalone app, and there are no plans to change that or commingle data with Facebook. Facebook has taken a similar approach with…
Socialbakers Adds Facebook Listening To Its Repertoire
…keyword searching of Facebook public user posts via the API. “It’s not a substitute,” cofounder and head of product Jiri Voves said, but it does provide some indication of what’s being said about your products or your competitors’. In its post announcing the new Facebook Pages search capability,…
Facebook launches Facebook Spaces, Camera Effects Platform, Messenger bot discovery at F8
Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company announced its new Facebook Spaces virtual reality meeting place, a “Camera Effects Platform” allowing anyone to create filters for Facebook Camera and an improved way for people on Messenger to discover bots. Facebook Messenger makes chatbots…
The pros, the cons and the future of Facebook chatbots
…inside Facebook Messenger — other than for people who don’t have Facebook Messenger. But for those who do (and that’s over a billion people), it’s a major opportunity to ease the customer service experience and provide real-time engagement. The future looks bright Sure, the start to Facebook chatbot…
Facebook ad revenue tops $16.6 billion, driven by Instagram, Stories
…Socialbakers — a Facebook marketing partner. Aaron Goldman, CMO for 4C (another Facebook marketing partner) expects Facebook video advertising to see more activity this year. “In 2019, video will become an even bigger focus with formats like Stories taking center stage across the Facebook Inc.…
Facebook Q3: Beats on earnings but disappoints on revenue
…flat — as it has been for the past several quarters. Facebook said that 66 percent of its monthly active users visit the site daily. The company also pointed to “more than 2.6 billion” people who use one of Facebook’s properties (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger) at least monthly and more…
Report: Facebook working on video-chat device and smart speaker
…report, Facebook is working on an Echo Show competitor and possibly on a second device, a smart speaker to compete with similar units from Amazon, Google and Apple. The hardware may be announced next year at the company’s developer conference and is reportedly coming out of Facebook’s “Building…