Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that the company’s Threads app had gained 30 million sign-ups since launching a day earlier on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Facebook has identified about 400 malicious apps, available in Apple and Google's app stores, that steal users’ usernames and passwords. The company suggests users change their passwords and enable two-factor authentication to protect themselves. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
A Facebook outage disrupted the app, WhatsApp and Instagram for hours. The company told employees the cause was unknown. on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld5 years ago
Facebook releases new app for couples to send messages to each other bbc.in
@WSJ6 years ago
A technical error recently allowed children on a Facebook messaging app to interact with users who weren’t approved by their parents, a misstep that further dents the company’s track record on privacy and security on.wsj.com
@guardian6 years ago
Facebook 'youth team' to focus on Messenger Kids app for under-13s trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Bitmoji: the emoji avatar app taking on Apple and Facebook trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Facebook announces dating app focused on 'meaningful relationships' trib.al
Instagram used to be a haven from things that made Facebook annoying and creepy—then the photo-sharing app started using some of the social network’s powerful digital tricks on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Facebook launches Messenger Kids app – but parents vet chat contacts trib.al
@nytimesworld7 years ago
Minsk technies came up with an app that was a hit at the 2016 Oscars. Now the company is owned by Facebook. nyti.ms
@WSJ2 years ago
Facebook parent Meta announced the launch of Threads, a stand-alone microblogging app that takes direct aim at Twitter as user unrest in that platform has grown since Elon Musk took the company over in October on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Meta's Facebook will let content creators make money from videos with licensed music, as the company ramps up its efforts to combat rival TikTok, the popular video-sharing app on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The messaging app Telegram has helped fuel democracy movements in Iran and Belarus but now faces scrutiny as extremists and conspiracy theorists flock to it amid crackdowns by Facebook and Twitter on disinformation. nyti.ms
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook postpones the launch of its dating app in Europe after an Irish regulator raised issues with the feature’s compliance with EU’s data protection rules on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
An altered video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg has surfaced on the social-media company’s Instagram app, where he appears to question its data practices on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Facebook bans quiz app myPersonality, as part of a larger investigation into data abuse by outside developers on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Bitmoji: the emoji avatar app taking on Apple and Facebook trib.al
@WSJ7 years ago
The academic whose app harvested information on Facebook users that was shared with Cambridge Analytica told U.K. lawmakers the data proved ineffective for targeting ads on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Are you sharing more data with app developers on Facebook than you realized? Probably. Here’s how to fix it on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Instagram used to be a haven from things that made Facebook annoying and creepy—then the photo-sharing app started using some of the social network’s powerful digital tricks on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Facebook is rolling out a messaging app for its youngest audience yet—children between the ages of six and 12 on.wsj.com
@WSJ8 years ago
Information from a data-security app shows Facebook what people do on their phones beyond a suite of the firm’s apps on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled to employees a stand-alone app that it plans to launch through Instagram to compete with Twitter on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook posted slower sales growth in the latest quarter as ad revenue was crimped by Apple's app-privacy rules on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
Facebook said Apple approved a request to give businesses a temporary reprieve from paying a 30% commission on paid online events, a special arrangement that comes as the App Store owner faces criticism over how its digital marketplace operates on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Facebook showed up late to the dating-app party and, for now, feels bare-bones and aimless. But there is one group of users that Facebook Dating is perfect for. on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
An Apple mobile update would offer users the option to remain anonymous when signing into certain apps in the App Store—and cut back Facebook and Google’s access to user data on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Facebook to pull its data-security app from Apple's app store after iPhone maker ruled the service violated its data-collection policies on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg pushed the WhatsApp founders to be more flexible on how to manage privacy and make money from the app on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
The developer of the app that harvested Facebook data says it wasn't useful to political consultancy Cambridge Analytica on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
Facebook is facing fallout from years of lax policing over how its app creators handled the social network's user data on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Child development experts urge Facebook to pull Messenger Kids app trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Facebook is buying anonymous teen compliments app TBH trib.al
@guardian8 years ago
Vanishing app: Snapchat struggles as Facebook bites back trib.al
@WSJ2 years ago
Facebook parent Meta Platforms unveiled to employees a stand-alone app that it plans to launch through Instagram to compete with Twitter on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook is expected to post another quarter of record sales, though analysts expect changes in Apple’s app-privacy rules to have weighed on the digital-advertising business on.wsj.com
@WSJ5 years ago
What are big tech's responsibilities and opportunities during a global crisis? Fidji Simo, head of the Facebook app, and Andrew Bosworth, VP of Facebook Reality Labs, discuss how the social-media giant’s role has evolved. #WSJFuturetwitter.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Want to try a new dating app? Facebook already put a new one on your phone. on.wsj.com
@WSJ6 years ago
Our reporter downloaded a pregnancy app and soon saw a maternity ad on Instagram. So began her search for answers: How is Facebook tracking us? on.wsj.com
@WSJ7 years ago
This is the second app after Cambridge Analytica’s personality-prediction app to be banned by Facebook on.wsj.com
@guardian7 years ago
Facebook announces dating app focused on 'meaningful relationships' trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Only 53 Australians used Facebook app in massive data breach – video trib.al
@BBCWorld7 years ago
Blackberry sues Facebook in fight over app patents bbc.in
@guardian7 years ago
Jeremy Hunt attacks Facebook over app aimed at children trib.al
@guardian7 years ago
Facebook is buying anonymous teen compliments app TBH trib.al
@WSJ8 years ago
Facebook covertly launches a mobile app in China on.wsj.com