Facebook letting more stores ping your phone when you're inside
ITworld - You might find yourself browsing more than the shelves at your local store, if Facebook knows you're there. It's expanding a location-aware program that will let businesses pop information...
View ArticleFacebook's Place Tips expands nationally with free beacons for businesses
ZDNet - Originally rolled out January, Place Tips uses beacons to publish curated content about a business to the top of a shopper's News Feed while they're at the company's location.
View Article2014 report about sharks on Alabama's Gulf Coast being shared a year later on...
WHNT CBS Huntsville - You may have seen a WHNT News 19 report about sharks on Alabama's Gulf Coast pop up in your Facebook news feed yesterday or today. We love it when you share our news stories on...
View ArticleFacebook Challenges Pinterest By Bringing News Feed Buy Button To Shopify's...
TechCrunch - Facebook wants its ads to sell you stuff directly so you never have to click away to another app or site. Until now, Facebook was testing a Buy Button that does that with just a few...
View ArticleLexington woman works toward peace after recent violence
WTVQ ABC Lexington - LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- One ordinary citizen is hoping to make a difference and bring the community together by trying to plan a peaceful march through the city.Ida Warford is tired...
View ArticleGet ready for more buy buttons on Facebook
PC World - When you're not liking your friends' photos on Facebook, you're likely to soon have more opportunities to buy stuff. Facebook is expanding its partnership with Shopify, which helps...
View ArticleFacebook lets more merchants add buy buttons to their posts
The Verge - Get ready to start seeing more e-commerce when you open up Facebook. A small test of "buy" buttons in the News Feed has now expanded to include all merchants that use the Shopify platform,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg says he wants Facebook to build more tools to let people help...
Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the the social network to build more tools that allow its users to help each other, he said during Facebook's annual shareholders' meeting on...
View Article12 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
TechCrunch - This week, we learned that Facebook now cares about how long we linger on News Feed posts, Sean Parker's new political discourse app, and got introduced to Microsoft's new Xbox One...
View ArticleFacebook tweaks News Feed to surface more posts that users actually read
VentureBeat - Likes and comments surely help Facebook rank posts for placement in the News Feed, but now time spent in posts will play a more significant part of the equation.
View ArticleFacebook tweaking news feed to favour friends over promos
Toronto Star - The shift may not be welcome to all users, particularly publishers and Facebook pages.
View ArticleFacebook News Feed Changes: Promoting Your Friends, Limiting Others' Reach
Wall Street Journal - Facebook announced changes to its news-feed algorithm that will result in people seeing more posts from their friends, while making it harder for companies to drum up traffic...
View ArticleFacebook changes its News Feed algorithm (and its control over publishers)
Fortune - "Optimization," yes. But for whom?
View ArticleFacebook changes its News Feed algorithm (and its control over publishers)
Fortune - "Optimization," yes. But for whom?
View ArticleWhy your Facebook news feed is filled with conspiracy theories
Daily Dot - Facebook is to conspiracy theories what oxygen is to fire.
View ArticleAre You a Learning Junkie?
Huffington Post - Learn X in 30 days! Make your life better by XYZ Join this FREE 7-day Challenge It used to be that in order to learn something new you had to register for a class at a local community...
View ArticleFacebook update pushes friend posts to the top of your News Feed
Digital Spy - If you don't have any friends then this won't affect you.
View ArticleFacebook is changing its news feed to actually show you more posts from your...
Washington Post - Here's a Facebook news feed change you may actually like: The social network announced late Tuesday that it's going to start showing you more posts that your friends have actually...
View ArticleFacebook will show more posts from our best friends and less from brands
Digital Trends - Facebook is rolling out some updates to the News Feed that will hopefully result in more relevant posts from your friends showing up in the feed. Posts from brands will be given less...
View ArticleDaily Briefing, April 23
SFGate - [...] guys, especially active ones, may want to learn their ABCs ? as in Lululemon's "ABC" pants A is for "anti" and C is for "crushing." The target audience is obviously young, active and...
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