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Beyond the ‘Like’ button: Facebook Reactions coming to News Feed soon

The Like button is getting some friends soon. Facebook is rolling out a full line of “Reactions” to the public… Read More

Facebook crushes Q4 earnings expectations with $5.8B in revenue and 1.59B users

Facebook crushed Wall Street expectations for its fourth quarter earnings report today, sending the company’s stock up more than 5 percent… Read More

Facebook launches ‘Sports Stadium’ to give fans a place to chat during live games

Most sports fans and journalists that monitor online conversation during live sporting events probably utilize Twitter more than any other social… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg’s 2016 challenge: Create an AI to change the music, check on the baby

Beyond his immense success at forcing you to reconnect with people from high school, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he… Read More

Oculus Rift preorders start in less than 48 hours, but price and ship date still a mystery

It’s been nearly four years since Oculus wrapped up the Kickstarter campaign for its virtual reality headset, the Rift. Today, the company… Read More

The Year in Tech: The most important Seattle tech stories of 2015, as picked by GeekWire’s editors

When it comes to the Seattle tech stories that mattered in 2015 — major developments that will have a lasting… Read More

Facebook announces its picks for best games of 2015

As 2015 wraps up, Facebook has published a list of its favorite games of the year. Here are the titles that made… Read More

Facebook on the subway is about to get way better as company brings offline benefits to mobile app

You may think Facebook has hit peak popularity, but the social network is still looking to expand in areas where… Read More

Facebook starts letting desktop users prioritize friends and pages in news feed

With every change Facebook makes to its news feed, people complain that it’s taking away control over what they see.… Read More

Yes, billionaires do use LLCs: Legal insights on the new Chan-Zuckerberg charity

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to form an LLC, through which they’ll conduct charitable and philanthropic activities, made headlines earlier… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg announces plan to give away 99% of Facebook shares in letter to newborn daughter

Mark Zuckerberg is officially a dad. He announced the birth of his daughter, Maxima, today in a note on Facebook, and also announced… Read More

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Facebook’s epic office plan, Uber at the airport, and dancing with Matt Harding

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: An inside peek at Facebook’s new Frank Gehry-designed offices in Seattle,… Read More

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Interview: Facebook’s big Seattle engineering office prepares for even more growth

Facebook’s Seattle engineering office is the social networking giant’s largest outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters, with more than 500 engineers… Read More

Facebook product head forces some employees to switch from iOS to Android phones

 To design a good Android app, you need to use and understand Android. That’s the thinking behind Facebook chief product… Read More

Being wasted on Facebook won’t hurt your credit score — at least not yet

You know I love a good privacy outrage as much as anyone.  But a story last week in the Financial… Read More

Live Photos for the rest of us: Instagram introduces GIF-like ‘Boomerang’ video app for iOS and Android

The Live Photos feature on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is a pretty neat party trick, but there’s no… Read More

Software Engineering Daily: How Facebook’s React project is reshaping app development

Facebook engineering has recently produced a powerful suite of loosely coupled tools for software development: React, GraphQL, Relay, React Native, and… Read More

Facebook tests emoji replacement for the Like button, with Love, Wow and Sad (but still no Dislike)

Emoji may be the future of communication, and Facebook is embracing them with open arms. The social network is trying… Read More

Pro.com becomes first home services platform to integrate with Facebook Messenger

You can now request home improvement services from Pro.com with a few text messages or directly within Facebook Messenger. The… Read More

Facebook’s Doodle lets users draw on photos, adding new feature to built-in photo editor

A picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a picture worth if you doodle on it? Facebook… Read More

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NBA training camp session with LeBron James will be Facebook’s first live sports simulcast

Live sports is coming to Facebook. Facebook’s first-ever simulcast of a live sports program will air on Thursday when NBA… Read More

Zuckerberg and Gates push for Internet access for all, while Pope says social networks cause ‘radical loneliness’

While techies Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg addressed the United Nations about connecting the entire world by 2020, the Pope… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg wears a suit, Jeff Bezos is best-dressed at meeting with China president

Many of the world’s top technology CEOs were looking fancy and fresh at Microsoft’s headquarters on Wednesday — even Mark Zuckerberg… Read More

Photos: Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg meet China’s president at Microsoft

If the tech world had an All-Star Game, today’s Internet Forum at Microsoft could certainly qualify. Top CEOs like Apple’s Tim Cook,… Read More

Want more likes? Here’s the best time to post your Instagram picture

To become a pro Instagrammer, getting eyeballs on your photos is one of the main challenges. Even if you have… Read More

Instagram reaches 400M users — three quarters of them outside the U.S.

Instagram announced today that more than 400 million people have signed up for the photo-sharing social network, double the number… Read More

Facebook introduces Signal to help news organizations find content from across the social network

Facebook is making it easier for journalists to find content on the social network to use in their stories. The new… Read More

Don’t like that post? Facebook is working on a ‘dislike’ button

Don’t like a post on your Facebook feed? Soon you’ll be able to express your displeasure with a “dislike” button. Facebook… Read More

Using Oculus with motion-sensing controllers: The most fun video game experience I’ve ever had

It was only 15 minutes, but my time playing with Oculus’ latest virtual reality technology on Friday at the PAX Prime… Read More

Facebook milestone: 1 billion people used the social network in one day

Facebook reached an epic milestone on Wednesday: For the first time ever, 1 billion people used its service in one… Read More

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