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Facebook launches new comments plugin, video embedding, and more developer tools

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook’s F8 developer conference featured a smorgasbord of announcements targeted at developers interested in building apps on… Read More

Facebook wants to reinvent how you talk to friends, retailers with Messenger Platform

SAN FRANCISCO — As expected, Facebook is opening up its Messenger app to developers and other partners to expand its… Read More

Live from Mark Zuckerberg’ keynote at F8

SAN FRANCISCO–Developers from all over the world have gathered at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center for F8, a conference put… Read More

Facebook notification reveals plans for Messenger as a platform, Internet of Things development tools

Last night, Facebook gave what seems to be an unintentional early glimpse of its future plans to people who have… Read More

Facebook gives users a glimpse into their past with ‘On This Day’ feature

Facebook is giving users a new way to look back at their history on the social network with a new… Read More

Facebook in talks with Buzzfeed, New York Times, others to host exclusive content

Facebook’s “News Feed” could soon take on a whole new meaning. The New York Times reported on Monday that large online publishers… Read More

Instagram launches new Layout app for making photo collages

Instagram launched a new standalone app called Layout today that lets mobile photographers take a bunch of photos and lay… Read More

Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payments in Messenger app

People who owe their friends a few bucks after a night on the town have a new way to get… Read More

San Fran man fakes suicide post on Facebook, finds himself detained for 70 hours

In an Internet experiment gone awry, a San Francisco man found himself detained in a mental health facility for about… Read More

Facebook offers free-form gender option for people who don’t fit a binary

Facebook has tweaked the gender options available on the social network so that people who don’t conform to a traditional… Read More

Facebook, University of Washington reveal suicide prevention effort

A collaboration between Facebook and researchers at the University of Washington has been launched to get help to those who post… Read More

Study: 38% of global population connects to Internet as rate of growth slows

A new report from Internet.org presents a sobering look at the state of global Internet access: there’s growth, but it’s… Read More

Top tech internships of 2015: How Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and other giants rank

For the best internship experience at a tech company with an interview of only average difficulty, pick Facebook. The social network tops… Read More

Microsoft drops support for Facebook, Google chat from Outlook.com

Microsoft is dropping support for Facebook and Google chat from its Outlook.com web-based email service. In an email to Outlook.com… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: How Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T and Sprint fare in data speeds, call quality and more

How do AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile stack up? We’ve looked at their customer growth, and this week on the GeekWire… Read More

Seattle Police Dept.’s new social media policy cracks down on officers’ personal posts

Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole issued a new social media policy today for police officers and other department employees —… Read More

Oculus is booming, too: Facebook-owned VR company reaches 100 employees in Seattle area

Facebook is growing quickly in Seattle, announcing this morning that it has topped 500 employees at its existing office next… Read More

Facebook confirms big Seattle office lease, space to be designed by Frank Gehry, with room for 2,000 people

Facebook Seattle confirmed this morning that it will be moving into a big new office building on Dexter Avenue in Seattle… Read More

It’s official: Videos trump photos on Facebook

Want your audience to be more engaged with your content on Facebook? Post a video. That’s the official news form… Read More

Facebook inks lease for Seattle office with room for 2,000 staffers

Facebook has inked a lease for 275,000 square feet of office space in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood, a massive… Read More

Facebook adds support for ‘Legacy Contacts’ to manage your page when you die

In this age of social networking, there’s one looming question: what happens when you die? It’s an especially important one… Read More

Facebook helps companies share security threat info with new platform

Facebook launched a new platform today for companies to share information about security threats and work together to solve them.… Read More

Facebook adds Craigslist-esque classified ad tools to ‘for sale’ groups

Members of “for sale” groups on Facebook now have some new tools for hawking their wares on the social networking… Read More

Videos on Facebook get 3B views a day

If it seems like video content is all over your Facebook News Feed, you’re not alone: the company revealed today… Read More

Facebook beats Wall Street expectations with $3.85B in revenue, 1.4B monthly active users

Facebook’s holiday quarter beat analyst expectations with $3.85 billion in revenue, up from almost $2.6 billion during the same period… Read More

Facebook tweaks News Feed algorithm to cut down on hoaxes

Facebook has decided to step in and help people avoid the embarrassment of sharing a hoax with their friends on… Read More

Tech prank: Why Smartsheet put up a wall inside Facebook’s Seattle office

The theme of Facebook’s Seattle hackathon last week, “Tear Down This Wall,” got the attention of people inside Smartsheet, the cloud-based collaboration tool with headquarters… Read More

Facebook soars to 400 employees in Seattle — and now it’s doubling its space to make room for more

Facebook’s Seattle office has reached a whopping 400 employees — and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. Just this week, Facebook… Read More

Facebook enters the office with new Facebook at Work collaboration tools

Facebook has offered a glimpse at its new workplace collaboration product today with the soft launch of its Facebook at… Read More

Facebook’s QuickFire Networks acquisition expands its reach in online video

Facebook has been pushing its video capabilities as a key component of its overall strategy over the past year, and… Read More