Facebook has agreed to buy WhatsApp instant messaging platform for $16 billion. The purchase will be split between $4 billion in cash and $12 billion in stock.WhatsApp claims to have over 450 million monthly active users, of which 70 percent are active daily.
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Facebook announced its new “Video on Instagram” service at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus event.Instagram now has 130 million monthly active users.
Main features:
Fifteen seconds of video length.
13 new filters.
select favorite scene from recorded video as your cover image.
image stabilization.
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Facebook has announced that facebook Pages and profiles of popular public figures (celebrities, journalists,government officials, popular brands and businesses) with large audiences can now be verified. verified Facebook pages will now display a small blue check mark beside their owner’s name on the social network.
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Facebook Beta for Windows Phone 8 released [Windows Phone]
Facebook Beta for Windows Phone 8 is now available for download and testing.
Main features:
major user interface redesign
new support for high-res photos
post sharing
Facebook Timeline
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Facebook announced it has developed a programming language called Feature eXtraction Language (FXL) in an effort to help combat spam on the social networking service. FXL described as a narrowly-optimized implementation of a well-chosen subset of Standard ML (with some customized syntax).FXL offers two key advantages: it is simple and easy to write, yet extremely efficient for Facebook-sized workloads.
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Mark Zuckerberg announced Graph Search, a new way to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook and it starts today with a limited preview, or beta.Graph Search will appear as a bigger search bar at the top of each page.
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Mozilla announced the launch of Facebook Messenger for Firefox,which is built on a new Social API for the Web.
Main features:
social sidebar with your Facebook chat and updates
like new comments and photo tags
get notifications for messages, friend requests and more
To enable this feature
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According to Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, facebook has now 1 billion active users.
Some other statistics since the site launched in 2004:
140.3 billion friend connections
219 billion photos uploaded
1.13 brillion likes
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Facebook has announced that now it has 955 million users worldwide who sign on at least once a month. Facebook also says that 552 million of its users worldwide sign onto the service on a daily basis and 543 million people that use the service via mobile devices.
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Facebook has announced that The App Center is now available in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Initially, the App Center was available to users in the United States only.Now facebook accepting submissions from developers with translated apps for the App Center.Facebook also said that it will be launching it in Brazil, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey in the coming weeks.