Facebook Messenger goving to bring end to end encryption option

giant social media Facebook has said it has begun offering an option to encrypt messages - a way to have secret conversations with other users - some of the 900 million users of messenger, your messaging application. The end to end encryption is a system that allows users to communicate only to read the messages. The update Facebook ban even reading the conversation of users.

"We want people to be able to use Messenger to every conversation you want to have," The Wall Street Journal quoted Tony Leach, product manager for Facebook Messenger as saying. "In some cases, these are really fun and casual things like sending emoji each other. In other cases, it is very serious conversations where you need an extra layer of security," said Leach.

Facebook introduced the encryption end to end one billion users of the messaging application WhatsApp in April. Leach said encrypt Messenger is a more difficult challenge WhatsApp because the service is widely used by browsers on personal computers as well as smartphones.

While in WhatsApp, the end to end encryption is enabled by default, Messenger users will have to activate the feature, which has not gone down well with a few. Christopher Soghoian, a leading technologist of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in a Twitter message that "opt-in encryption favors educated users who have the time to learn about setting security dark".

Meanwhile, Matthew Green, assistant professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins, who was invited by Facebook to review its efforts encryption end to end teacher, said he would like to see the feature enabled by default, but according that this would be a challenge.

"It's very difficult to get encrypted messaging application that has all the features that Facebook wants to work on the web and on multiple devices," Green said. Facebook said encryption end to end would not be immediately available in Messenger for group conversations, chatbots, payments or videos.

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Twitter names former chief technology officer of Facebook to its board

Twitter said it had appointed former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor of its board, effective immediately. Taylor is currently the executive director of Quip start.

Taylor became the chief technology officer of Facebook after it acquired FriendFeed, the social network he co-founded in 2007. Before that, he was a product manager at home alphabet Inc Google, where he co-created maps of Google and started group of Google developer products.

It was only recently that highlighted reports Twitter has hired a UI designer who used to work for Apple. Alessandro Sabatelli joined Twitter as the Director of AR and VR. Sabatelli was the CEO of a company he founded called Ixomoxi, which created an Augmented Reality application for music festivals - called Lucy - aimed at millennials. Lucy Sabatelli application that adds real-time filter seems to point to similar features from periscope.

A focus on AR and VR is the latest in a series of measures aimed at revitalizing the social network measure. How exactly fit VR and AR is unknown, and open to speculation.

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FACEBOOK ESTIMATES breaks to post first-quarter earnings BLOCKBUSTER

Facebook has not followed the fall of profit technology currently plaguing the likes of Apple, alphabet, and Twitter, and could be configured to reach its highest percentage of prices thanks to a stellar first quarter.

The company beat analysts' expectations by posting revenues of $ 5.38 billion (52 percent year on year), with most predictions expecting a total of $ 5.26 billion. In addition, Facebook's net income almost tripled compared to the first quarter last year to hit $ 1.51 billion.

Fundamentally, the largest social network in the world continues to attract more users, its global user base reaching 1.65 billion in the quarter, compared with 1.44 million a year ago. Not only that, people are also using Facebook more, with the company reporting that 66 percent of monthly active users (MAU) connected to the platform every day, an increase of 1 percent over the same period the year past. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that people were spending more than 50 minutes per day through the suite of applications of the company, including the same Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

Facebook's revenue is derived from each user (you and your friends is) it has also increased to an average of $ 3.32 to $ 2.50 the previous year.

Amid all the brilliant statistics, an important factor was appearing; mobile. Facebook said its mobile MAU grew 21 percent year over year to reach 1.51 million. Along with the amazing growth came an increase in the lucrative mobile advertising investment. The company would have made 82 percent of its $ 5.2 billion in mobile advertising revenues this quarter. Compare this with the purchasing power of the brand soft informed by his rival Twitter, and you begin to get an idea of ​​who really rules the roost in the field of smart phones.

On the subject of the rulers, it is seems Facebook founder and CEO wants even more control over your company. In a note published in the Press Room Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company intends to create a new class of non-voting shares. Meaning Zuckerberg can still give 99 percent of their wealth by shares without voting rights, and continue to maintain strict control over Facebook with their right to vote.

After listening figures for the first quarter, investors probably a copy of the measure. After all, the aggressive pursuit of advertising Zuckerberg has obviously reaped massive rewards for Facebook.

Despite all the good news, there was no mention of an Oculus Rift impact on revenue. The recent launch of virtual reality device was plagued by setbacks, mainly due to shipping delays, and their lack of presence during the conference results will do little to ease concerns about its future. However, Facebook stressed that the acquisition of Oculus was a long-term investment that would significantly impact their income not 2016.

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Facebook could launch a separate camera application to encourage too live

Facebook is in a live tear these days, and a report indicates that it could go further in the photo and video with a new standalone application.

The network is developing a camera application, according to the Wall Street Journal - not to be confused with the existing Instagram. A prototype reportedly allows users to go directly to your camera, then share your add-in properties managed by Facebook.

Another rumored feature would allow users who are recording a video with the application of a pull in a live broadcast. With most of Facebook live video from outlets, brands and media celebrities these days, allowing regular users start a stream with the push of a button while already in the recording process could lead more people to give it a try.

In fact, it could lead to an avalanche of live streams, which can be annoying for friends and family still good news for Mark Zuckerberg and company

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As the Journal speculates, the camera application is a sign of Facebook is feeling the heat content decreased original user.

We have reported in recent weeks on this issue and plans of Facebook to stanch it, including potentially let users receive tips for posts.

A spokesman for Facebook sent me this statement with regard to share original content on the network: "People continue to share a ton on Facebook, the overall level of exchange has remained is not only strong, but similar to levels of years above. "

As for the camera application, Facebook would not comment on rumors or speculation, they said.

Sharing may be strong on Facebook but is the type of content being shared where the waters are still muddy.

The data collected by GlobalWebIndex indicates people are turning to social networks increasingly to upload photos and videos that take themselves. GlobalWebIndex according to figures cited by the Wall Street Journal, 37% of Facebook users surveyed said they uploaded or shared their own photos in the first quarter of 2016, down from 46% the previous year.

The know say the new application is intended to encourage users to actually produce photos and videos, instead of sitting back and passively like them. also will apparently try to inspire users to be creative, which means you could be in filters, face swaps and other nontraditional forms of creative expression.

The application can not make it to mobile users, according to the report, but it seems that Facebook is hard at work, wiping the sweat from his brow while cooking up possible ways to get us create and share again. We have to wait and see what decides to serve.

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Facebook seeks to extend 'Boost Your Business' program for villages in India

giant social media Facebook said Friday it is looking to expand extends program "Boost Your Business" to the villages of India to help entrepreneurs improve their business prospects.

"We're doing a lot of different initiatives specifically contemplated to the arts and crafts of India who live in the villages. The challenge we face now is the extension of this," Head of Initiatives of economic growth for India Facebook Ritesh Mehta he told PTI in Bangalore.

"So we're going to try to work with the organization that will help us scale because a company can do a limited amount of things. But if we partner with 10 NGOs or governments, then together we can do much more," he added.

Arts and crafts is an area of ​​very great interest for Facebook is running an initiative for rural entrepreneurs, he said.

"When we visited five cities in Uttar Pradesh, actually we went to the people, not just the cities. When we were in Benares, also went Benares so, where weavers live and show them the use of the Facebook page. Just as Kanauj and did in Kanpur, "he said.

Facebook is starting to work with NGOs like Seva in Gujarat that have a huge network of rural artisans, he said.

When asked how many associations Facebook has hit to take the program cities and towns, Mehta said, "Right now we are not ready to announce the collaboration with NGOs, but we work with them to different initiatives."

Mehta also said that Facebook is in talks with the government of Karnataka, but do not have a formal package to bring this program to cities throughout the state.

"We are in the conversation, but do not have a formal package from now. We love to have this program to other cities across Karnataka," he said.

Asked why not Karnataka was the first destination to implement the initiative, especially in Bangalore is considered a hotbed for network connectivity, said that before talking with the government, which wanted to be sure to set your initiative in Bangalore .

"We've begun to do that," Mehta said.

He said he had so far covered seven cities in India including Hyderabad and Bangalore and 4,000 trained women entrepreneurs. At the end of the year, Facebook aims to cover 20 to 25 cities, training of women entrepreneurs using technology in Facebook to enhance your business prospects, Mehta said.

"This year our goal is to cover four or five other states.

Other than that our goal is to cover another eight to 10 cities.

It is likely that at the end of the year we should have gone to 20 to 25 cities, "he said.

"We have cities like Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Indore already listed in our calendar, in which he would visit," he added.

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Facebook tools open-source developers for iOS

Annual conference F8 Facebook in San Francisco is aimed at developers, but larger company announcements so far have been much more focused on new things for Facebook users to dig into, like a camera that records video 360 degrees, messenger chatbots, and for storage at Facebook button for reading articles later. But the company also shared some developer news, as tools that make applications easier to build iOS.

During F8 on Wednesday, Facebook announced that code only open two tools for iOS developers so they can create applications much faster: Reshape, a tool for code generation Objective-C, which provides a quick way for developers data flow around their applications and batch management of iOS memory, which includes tools such as the Detector Retain cycles, which will help prevent accidents memory in your application. If memory is leaking, this tool is the source from the beginning in the encoding process without having to manually search down.

"Memory on mobile devices is a shared resource," Greg Pstrucha wrote in a blog on Wednesday announcing the tools. "Applications that manage unduly run out of memory, shock, and suffer drastically decreased performance. Facebook for iOS has many features that share the same memory space. If any specific feature begins to consume too much memory, which can affect all the application ".

In January, Facebook closed its Parse, its mobile application development toolkit that helped developers focus more on building great apps and spend less time managing back end. The network focuses on other efforts, such as chatbots and live video, but maintains that help developers is still part of their mission. This is something most of us do not see, but is essential to the way we use our applications and iPhones.

Facebook is all about open outsourcing almost all code, hardware, whatever and Facebook probably has open for others are based. Making it easier for developers to create applications using Facebook puts more users in the Facebook ecosystem, which is a clear win for the company as it works to make live video and chatbots more popular. support third-party applications and hardware manufacturers is a key part of these efforts. However, development tools also presumably make those applications best use, despite the Facebook application for iOS has not been the most popular in recent times, some have reported that the Facebook application still too many resources sucks and iPhone battery drains much more than it should, even after Facebook promised to fix it.

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Facebook Introduced hyperlocal services in India

Facebook has quietly introduced a new local service site in India that help customers discover some of the best valued services providers in your area, such as plumbing, spas, home care, automotive, etc.

Facebook page services provide users with local businesses and organizations based on their ratings reviews Ans on Facebook. It also provides details such as address, contact numbers of them too. "We are in the early stages of testing a way for people to easily find more pages for services that interest them," said a spokesman for Facebook. However, Facebook has not indicated whether he plans to start service value.

The site is said to have been in the testing phase since November last year. Today, popular hyperlocal platforms that offer services across different segments are Quikr, UrbanClap, Roadrunner, Opinio, Zopper and others.

Recently, Facebook has officially announced a set of tools designed to help Facebook users more easily communicate with companies using Messenger. Now, companies will be able to see their user names Facebook Page being strongly promoted through the website, Facebook page and offer new ways to communicate with them, such as Messenger links, which are short URLs and codes Messenger susceptible be analyzed. These features are said to shoot in the "coming weeks".

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Free Internet: Google is showing us how to do it!

Like you, I've been listening Fundamentals free for a long time now. We have all witnessed a very strong opposition to basics for free by Facebook, of those of us who are aware of the finer details and implications. There are also some who leave because fundamentals remain free because it is apparently altruistic.

Regardless of which side of the debate you are on, you can not deny that altruists are rarely worth several billion dollars. That would be my opinion, but to be able to, you should first make huge sums. As Shah Rukh Khan advised the students of the University of Edinburgh last year, "they do not become a philosopher before becoming rich." He can be a Bollywood star and an actor, but an underlying reality explained. There is a deep rooted inclination in creating wealth. And lowering lines between wealth creation for a certain few, and the world around.

When genuine philanthropy makes people's lives impact. Only free basics such movement is not one of those. There is a larger industry of technology that emphasizes giving back movement. And many have opened their coffers to hand out huge sums as part of philanthropic efforts. Here is a list of several others who have turned their backs on society with no small print.

So more than anything, Google's move to connect hundreds of railway stations in India is welcome. From the point of view of perception and communication, it gets full points. But before taking a look at Google, I would emphasize the points mentioned by Facebook why we have to have Internet access.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote a blog for The Times of India. And there was a question raised by Zuckerberg who has absolute sense. He said: "In the 21st century, everyone also deserves access to the tools and information that can help you achieve all those other utilities, and all their fundamental social and economic rights." I agree 100 percent. Each and every one of us deserves access to tools and information to be able to achieve what we set out to achieve in this highly competitive world - the kind that makes us leaders in our own right. And hopefully transform the world and make it better.

So how do we do that? By getting access to information. The world can not change Wi-Fi in a railway station in India, but is a significant step in the right direction. Progress will happen for empowerment, not wasting time online. Just think for a while about the state of the Internet in India, and you would realize a lot has to change.

The need of the hour is free internet access. No small print. That could happen through the industry and the government of India working together. And the Wi-Fi station Mumbai Central Railway today is the first step in the right direction. There is probably something there for Facebook to consider. When the world around them need Internet access and provides free, then the world will take a step towards meeting their sales targets and revenue.

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Facebook, WhatsApp popular applications in India: report

Social networking giant Facebook and mobile messaging service WhatsApp have retained their positions as the 'most popular applications "from the Indians this year, according to a new report.

In addition, UC Browser TrueCaller and also among the top five most popular mobile applications among the Indians, according to the study by WhichApp, a mobile application that helps users discover new applications that their friends use.

WhichApp, which said more than 20,000 applications have been discovered and downloaded through its platform, also called MX Player, Flipkart, Candy Crush, Naukri.com as AppLock and other popular applications among the Indians.

The popularity is decided based on the number of users who have WhichApp and actively using applications on their mobile phones. Only those applications have been considered to have been used at least once a month.

"Our future plans are to locate the vernacular of non-English speaking audience and deployment in other countries as the application is only available in India at this time," said WhichApp Co-Founder and CEO Kapil Chawla.

"The goal is to have 10 million users in December 2016," he added. It currently has 100,000 users in the country.

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Facebook witnessed billion users in just one day, says Mark Zuckerberg

Most social networking platform Facebook just got even bigger. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had a billion people were connected to the site in a single day, the first time in the history of the company to achieve this milestone.

According to a posting on Facebook by the CEO, "On Monday, 1 in 7 people on Earth use Facebook to connect with friends and family." He said the company uses average numbers, but this case was different! "This was the first time that we reached this milestone, and is just the beginning of connecting everyone," he added.

Facebook has also launched a special video to commemorate the milestone.

The CEO went on to say how proud he was of his community and the progress that has been made. He says: "A more open and connected world is a better world brings stronger relationships with loved ones, a stronger economy, with more opportunities and a stronger society that reflects our values.".

However, no information from the source that new users came from the company was provided, but it definitely had a reason to celebrate, along with advertisers too. In the end, the young CEO thanked its members for being part of their community and for everything they have done to help achieve this milestone Facebook.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is also the richest person under the age of 35, with a personal fortune of $ 41.6 billion (about Rs 2,72,667 crore). According to a previous report, Facebook plans to raise 4.5 million online users with Internet.org.

In a blog released to mark the first year of the initiative, Facebook said a portal that allows any mobile operator to offer the service under its Internet.org open platform. Facebook currently associated with specific operators to launch the service in different countries.

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Google+ and Facebook: The rise of social networks and failed attempts that followed

There is general consensus on the importance of social media. The brands around the world have made social media a multimillionaire empire. It turns out that, aside from Twitter and Facebook, many have not succeeded in leaving a mark with a successful social network.

It is an endless cycle. You join a network, and enjoy it, because all your friends are there. And then some of his friends speak of new networks boast of a couple of interesting new features. And you think to yourself, you're probably better in a place with more friends, rather than have their friends scattered across networks.

Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, even largely made most of the early advantage in carving a niche movement. For communicating short form, Twitter stands out. For networks with old friends, Facebook has built the largest user base, and when it comes to a professional network, LinkedIn is arguably the most credible of all.

All of these names aside, there have been attempts by Google and Microsoft to build a successful social network. About the same time, Google had discovered that his first attempt at social media - Orkut - was not very successful. There had to be something new. Something that was better.

Goole +

Failure is not new to Google. Google+ Before there was Google Wave, which was destined to revolutionize the way we looked email. Then there was Google Buzz. Is no one even remembers them anymore. In a very interesting article on Mashable, Vic Gundotra is reported to have constantly released to the CEO of Google, Larry Page, the need to create a social network. Quoting a former executive of Google, he says the report, "Vic was just this constant error in Larry's ear:" Facebook will kill us. Facebook will kill us. Vic'm pretty sure managed to scare Larry in action. And voila: Google+ born ".

Today, Google is considered as death, if not dead. Vic Gundotra is not Google's. But the money has been invested and remains invested. According to preliminary estimates in 2011, the total investment that went into Google+ was $ 585 million US dollars. TheNextWeb said the number "is eerily close to what News Corp paid for MySpace so many years ago, which was $ 580 million in 2005."

Microsoft Socl

When it comes to Microsoft, the focus today is on Windows 10, and other exciting products as Cortana and HoloLens. However, in December 2010, Microsoft offered to buy Facebook for $ 15 billion. And humbly Facebook refused to sell. Microsoft then tried to create social network itself.

Microsoft has a social network called So.cl (pronounced social) and the possibilities that have heard of it are pretty slim. In many ways, So.cl is similar to Google+.

We wonder why companies the size of Google and Microsoft have failed to create a social network worth considering. There is, it comes down to what users experience and hope. Any attempt to run it as a product to generate revenue will lose the most important factor - user experience.

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Be original! Twitter is pulling down tweets that are copied

Copying is the best form of flattery, it is said. However, when someone copies your work become very annoying. What we all need is credit where it is due.

The rules are also valid for the tweets. And Twitter has realized this and has begun to take corrective measures to ensure that the tweets are not copied shamelessly. Through a support page, Twitter allows users to report a copyright infringement in tweets.

According to a report in the Verge, "staff members tweet weed through claims to decide what seems valid. If you decide to go ahead with the application, Twitter can then remove or delete the tweet. The company policy is then given to the offending user ten days to file a counter notification. Twitter also publishes the DMCA requests publicly Chilling Effects website, although records of this particular claim does not appear to be on the site yet. Twitter declined to comment for this story. "

However, as discovered by the user of Twitter (PlagiarismBad), Twitter has begun to break down tweets that violate copyright guidelines.

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Facebook working on laser technology to get high speed Internet via drone

Facebook platform, the world's largest social network, is working on laser technology to provide high-speed Internet through drones or satellites.

"Our Connectivity Lab is developing a laser communications system that can transmit data from the sky in communities. This will dramatically increase the speed of data transmission over long distances," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and today in its social networking page.

The California-based company has been working on developing technology to use drones and satellites to provide Internet to people. It has also approached the Government of India in the past to carry out pilot projects in the country.

"As part of our efforts Internet.org, we are working on ways to use drones and satellites to connect the billion people who live in the range of existing wireless networks. Normally you would not be able to see the actual beams "said billionaire investor technology.

Facebook had started Internet.org in partnership with telecom operators in select markets. In the village of projects in developing countries including India, you can access some sites without having to pay for mobile Internet charges.

Facebook, which owns the mobile messaging application WhatsApp, is among the over-the-top (OTT) players providing calls and messaging services.

Telecom operators have been on the warpath against OTT players and claim that their services are eating their core income is detrimental to the development of telecommunications infrastructure necessary for the provision of internet services.
Communication technology can help alternative OTT players bypass traditional telecommunications operators.

"This is just a connectivity project that we are working, but I was very excited to share this with you," Zuckerberg said.

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Log out of Facebook? 'This' open to the public, launches iPhone app

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Therefore, in the social network without advertising, which gained prominence last year with an invitation-only launch, he announced Thursday that it was opening to the public with an application for iPhone users.

The launch drew attention with its policy "anti-Facebook" of the promise not to use advertising or selling customer data to third parties.

Last September, an increase in the interest of members This was a hot ticket, with invitations for sale on eBay at prices up to $ 500.

In announcing the public launch, It did not elaborate on the membership, but said there were "millions" that use the platform.

"The new app is beautiful with dozens of unique features," said This co-founder and CEO Paul Budnitz.

"With so much positivity in it, and with the awareness of the negative effects of advertising and data collection by other networks to come to the forefront of the news, our press time application could not be better."
 This has improved the service to include new ways to find friends, complete search, real-time alerts, private

massage,private groups and "loves" instead of  likes.

He received $ 5.5 million in funding last year, as it changed its statutes to support a promise to remain unpublicized, becoming a "public benefit corporation". While services are free, Her future plans include premium features that were paid.

This was launched by a group of artists and programmers led by Budnitz, whose previous experience includes designing bicycles and toys.

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Facebook knows everything they do, if you 'Like' or not

We know that we have only the same type of content on our Facebook feed us like / share / comment. That's called echo effect.

But we do not always press "like" buttons or 'sharing' on all shipments shown on our Facebook feed, even if we like it or care about it.

Now, Facebook know even without any activity of the 'marked' if things especially in the news feed interests you or not.

Facebook is tweaking their algorithms to account for new metrics: the amount of time you spend looking at things in their food, whether or not actively interacts with it, TechCrunch reported.

Scroll past something without stopping for long, and algorithms of Facebook will slowly learn that you do not particularly care for that type of content.

Stop at a post for a bit, and Facebook the timer behind the scenes begins. If you spend more time in the story of what happens in most things in their feed for a "study of an image, seeking comment thread of a" they will take this as a sign that is something you matter.

This change allows Facebook algorithms for taking track without moving a finger.

Once things move towards the analysis of passive behavior, Facebook News Feed begins to understand what matters to you more than you ever could.

Facebook said it will present the algorithm tweak in the coming weeks. However, we do not expect drastic changes in what pops up in your diet, at least not soon. It will take some time before it really makes an impact.

Especially, pages are not likely to see significant changes in the distribution as a result of this update.

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