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You Can Make Free Voice Calls Through Facebook App – This Is How
04 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
When Facebook splurged a couple of billion on acquiring WhatsApp, many wondered if the social media company’s own messenger platform would fade away in its wake, but the free voice call option is here to state the opposite.
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Is Silicon Valley Taking the Piss?
03 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
$19 Billion for a free messaging platform, with almost no revenue. $2 Billion for another revenue-less tech toy… Is Silicon Valley taking the piss, or do they enjoy blowing bubbles as much as a kindergartener? Ooh… bubbles.
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Terrifying: Facebook Is Launching A Drone Squadron [VIDEO]
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
AND frikkin lasers. No really. I’ve never really trusted Mark Zuckerberg. He’s very pink, and he has inky black eyes that would be unnervingly shiny if they weren’t windows into an infinite chasm of evil. So I’m not surprised that he’s planning to use his multi-billion dollar company to launch a squadron of solar-powered drones, even if he says that he’ll use them to provide internet access to underdeveloped countries.
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WeCam Will Let You Make Video Calls To Your Twitter Followers
28 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is dividing your attention between all your different social media accounts wearing your psyche thin? WeCam allows you to connect to all your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ friends using one app, and you can also talk to them face-to-face.
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You Can Do A Whole Bunch Of New Things On Twitter – Check It Out
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Twitter’s latest update improves its photo sharing capabilities and tagging. These tweaks are an effort to improve user experience, but it seems like Twitter is becoming more like Facebook.
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Obviously Fake Oscar Pistorius Facebook Pages Are Asking For Money
25 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I suppose this had to happen at some point. Oscar Pistorius’ publicist, Anneliese Burgess says that the Facebook page titled, ‘Oscar Pistorius Official’ has been asking people for money, ostensibly in support of the murder accused. Small problem, Oscar Pistorius Official is anything but.
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Jagger Pens Facebook Message To L’Wren Scott
19 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Rolling Stones frontman penned a tribute message to his long time girlfriend L’Wren Scott on his Facebook page. Mick Jagger wrote that he will never forget Scott, clearly still in shock from her apparent suicide on Monday.
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Facebook’s New ‘Deepface’ Program Will Blow Your Mind
19 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Deepface’ sounds like a Bond villain or his plot to destroy the world, and it should. Using the world’s largest photo gallery, a la Facebook, the company has created a program that can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25% accuracy. If you consider humans have 97.53% accuracy doing the same task, this program is mind blowing.
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Controversial Online Forum Encourages Users To Post ‘Hottest Pics’ Of Facebook Friends
17 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Welcome to yet another lecture on why posting pictures of yourself on social media sites may come back to haunt you. In this week’s lesson we shall be looking at yet another rascally thing Reddit users are up to. The subreddit called Facebook Cleavage, is making quite a stir.
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Man Accused Of Killing Royal Marine At Rugby Receives Facebook Threats In Court
12 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Blayne Shepard, one of the four men on trial for the murder of a former Royal Marine outside a Durban rugby match, received a threatening message through Facebook while he was in court.
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Baby Gun Photo Causes Internet Backlash [PHOTO]
28 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Watch out! This baby has a gun! Not really though, she doesn’t even know where the trigger is – dumb baby. This picture a dad took of his baby daughter with a bolt action rifle resting on her lap has caused a ruckus on social media.
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Infographic Shows WhatsApp Deal Compared To The Other Big Ones [INFOGRAPHIC]
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two years ago everyone was talking about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram for $1 billion. Back then we thought it to be an abhorrently large amount of money for a site almost dedicated to cat pictures, duck face selfies and filtered food porn. Well Facebook’s recent purchase of WhatsApp dwarfs that deal.
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Google Wanted To Pay More for WhatsApp – So What Happened?
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the days leading up to Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, Google CEO Larry Page was willing to beat Facebook’s offer. So what happened that caused WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to decline Google?
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Incredible Story: Whatsapp Founder Goes From Queuing For Food Stamps To $6.8 Billion Fortune
20 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
By now you’ll have heard that Facebook has purchased Whatsapp, an app that most consumers use for free, for $19 billion. The deal was signed at a very sentimental location for co-founder Jan Koum: the former North County Social Services office – the place where he used to stand in line to collect food stamps.
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Thursday Morning Spice
20 Feb 2014 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Facebook buys Whatsapp for $19 billion. Tony Blair advised Brooks during hacking scandal. Waterkloof two stay in custody. Ukraine truce. Hoffman’s will. New drug kills leukemia in 88% of patients. Woman raped and strangled on cruise ship. Joffe for Adcock chairman.
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‘Catch Me If You Can’ Motorcyclist Busted [VIDEO]
18 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
He might be this years forerunner for being the dumbest criminal. Not only did he post a video of himself racing through traffic on the San Antonio police department’s Facebook page, writing “Catch me if you can,” it was done under his name. It turns out the police could indeed catch the moronic Alberto Rodriguez.
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The Internet Saved Chelsea, The Depressed Dog, From Certain Death [PICTURE]
12 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So depressed she wouldn’t even face possible owners visiting the shelter she was kept at in San Bernardino, California, Chelsea’s days were numbered. Due to be put down on Thursday, few were interested in adopting her. But leave it to the Internet to save the day.
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This Is Why Facebook Likes Are A Waste Of Time And Money [VIDEO]
11 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Paying for fake likes on Facebook will give you notoriously poor returns, but even using legitimate means to generate likes through Facebook advertising will now result in failure. This is according to Derek Muller, who has 131 000 likes on his Facebook page. Muller now longs for the days when he had only a couple of thousand page likes.
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Facebook Just Posted Its Strongest Revenue Growth In 2 Years
30 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s common knowledge that Facebook just isn’t signing up as many users as it once was. The plateau makes sense, given the sheer size of the user base, which remains large despite a flurry of reports indicating a teenage user exodus. Those studies didn’t stop Facebook from declaring 63% increase in revenue and an eightfold increase in profit for the fourth quarter yesterday.
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Please Enjoy Vin Diesel Dancing To Beyonce [VIDEO]
29 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Subscribing to Vin Diesel’s facebook page is either the best or worst life decision one can make, depending on how you look at it. The big friendly giant regularly posts a confounding mixture of selfies, inspirational quotes and personal family photos — all of which garner millions of likes and thousands of comments thanks to his […]
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Facebook In Bitch-Fight With Princeton University
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook and Princeton University are embroiled in what will inevitably be the nerdiest standoff in history. A few Princeton epidemiologists got together, did some research, and published a paper on a very dubious premise: that if you look at Facebook as an infectious disease, then 80% of its hardcore users may well have “recovered” and abandoned the service by 2018.
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STUDY: Facebook Is About To Lose 80% Of Its Users
22 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of this insightful video, it seems like media and citizens alike are escaping their Facebook induced hibernations and bailing.
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Facebook Is Losing Teens At “Terrifyingly High Rates”
16 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The hordes of teens that once made Facebook the company that it is today are now leaving in a mass exodus of millions. A recent report has revealed that the number of teens on Facebook is down 25% from 2011.
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Snapchat’s CEO Has Made Himself Look Like A Twat
07 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Snapchat CEO, Evan Speigel, isn’t doing himself any favours of late. He still hasn’t apologised for the security breach that affected 4,6 million Snapchat users, and now he’s involved in a row with Forbes.
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This Is The First Meme Of 2014
06 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you didn’t enjoy the meteoric rise of the selfie last year, you’re in for something of a rough ride in 2014. The very first meme of 2014 is the ‘Selfie Olympics’ or ‘extreme selfie’, and it comes with a very specific set of rules and regulations.
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Friday Morning Spice
20 Dec 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Zuckerberg sells $2.3 billion in Facebook shares. E-cigs banned in New York public places. Nkandla builder busted for fraud. William’s pet name for Kate revealed. Rodman back in North Korea.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
18 Dec 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Facebook launches auto-play video ads. NUMSA wants Zuma to resign. Colin Farrell reveals unlikely romance. Tutu says Madiba would have been ‘appalled.’ Someone won that R6.5 billion lottery. Contents of Nigella’s handbag revealed. Unheard Beatles sessions released. Bieber to retire?
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Mashable Gives 5 Reasons Why People Are Leaving Facebook
17 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It always seemed like only a matter of time before Facebook users started questioning how much time they were expending online, and now the questions have started coming thick and fast from the group of people Facebook relies on most – the millinials.
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Fortune Magazine’s 5 Predictions For Social Media 2014
13 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re not eating, sleeping and breathing social media, it’s time to hop on board. Fortune Magazine’s predictions for social media in 2014 show that social media is transforming the way fundamental ways in which businesses function – which makes this set of predictions especially useful.
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Selfies Are Turning Us Into A Nasty Bunch Of Narcissists [INFOGRAPHIC]
11 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, of course they are. But now we have cold, hard evidence to prove it. This infographic outlines some of the basic traits of narcissism, before revealing some worrying correlations between heavy social media use and narcissism.
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