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What Facebook’s (reported) video chat device could mean for its ad business
With new methods of data collection, Facebook could potentially power ads based on what it hears and sees in users' physical worlds....
Report: Facebook working on video-chat device and smart speaker
Neither device has been confirmed by the company, and much could change before their intended release in spring 2018....
Facebook’s newly purchased Ozlo may have jobs beyond Messenger
In addition to assisting/replacing the M project, Ozlo could help weed out fake news and colonize a variety of...
Facebook’s Messenger updates chatbots with built-in language parsing, bot-to-human handoffs
Messenger adds natural language processing, opens up automated handoffs, streamlines native payments and extends customization features to...
What marketers should know from Facebook’s Q2 2017 earnings report
Facebook’s ad revenue growth hasn’t slowed yet but will soon, and don’t expect ads in videos or Messenger to offset its ad load issue just...
Instagram starts sharing analytics for brands’ organic posts, Stories through API — but there’s a catch
Instagram is making it easier for brands to access organic post insights but requiring that they use Facebook to log in to their marketing...
LinkedIn report: Sales tech ‘is changing the game for sellers’ (and buyers)
Buyers are now pre-qualifying sellers, as sales tech -- including LinkedIn and other social networks -- revises how the B2B game is...
The pros, the cons and the future of Facebook chatbots
Thinking of swapping out your customer service agents with chatbots? Before you do, columnist Jordan Kasteler discusses the pros and cons of the...
News media seek to wield antitrust law in negotiations with Google, Facebook
News Media Alliance wants to collectively bargain with the big platforms to secure more ad revenue....
Social media pages for store locations have 5x the engagement of brand pages [Report]
On Facebook, 25x more impressions took place on local Pages....
Meet NinjaCat ‘Shinobi,’ the all-in-one agency reporting and monitoring platform of the future
Reports are so 2000 and lame! Everything in our world — from software to phones, cars and TVs — is getting smarter, faster and...
MomentFeed now offers paid social across Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram at scale
Company uses organic and paid social to drive offline visits for multi-location...
Facebook’s F8: Everything you need to know [Podcast]
Our crew is back from F8, and we talk about the biggest news, the most under-the-radar news and more from Facebook's annual developer...
Live blog: Facebook F8 second day opening keynote
Today's opening talks will likely go deep and technical into Facebook's augmented reality...
Facebook’s Places Graph makes 140 million locations available to developers for free
The available content includes business address, lat-long, hours, likes, check-ins, ratings, photos and...
Facebook launches Facebook Spaces, Camera Effects Platform, Messenger bot discovery at F8
Facebook allows developers to create camera filters, makes it easier to discover Messenger bots and for people to be together in...
Facebook’s Canvas ads get easier to create (and recreate) with new API
Canvas API enables brands to automate the production process through third-party marketing...
Facebook adopts header bidding to make its ad network more competitive with Google’s
By Facebook adopting header bidding, publishers will get a better look at which ad network can get them a better...
Hootsuite buys AdEspresso, adds onboard Facebook/Instagram ad management
The acquisition and new capabilities point to the importance of social ads to social management...
MailChimp moves toward becoming a marketing platform with Facebook ads feature
Oriented toward small businesses, the company's new features build on the customer and product data stored in its email...
