Tag: Facebook

In Zuck we trust: Facebook to launch own Cryptocurrency

Facebook’s plans to mint its own digital coin next year will test the company’s consumer credibility. After being savaged for months for its cavalier attitude toward users’ privacy, the social network will be asking those same users to trust its new cryptocurrency. The currency, called “Libra,” will be stashed in a digital wallet, the first product of […]

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Facebook to remove ‘Company Overview’ and ‘Biography’ fields from Pages

The company recommends Page owners add the information to their Page descriptions. Facebook is alerting Page owners that it is removing a number of fields from Page info starting August 1, 2019. The fields to be removed include Company Overview, Biography, Affiliation, Personal Interests and maybe more, according to a tweet from Matt Navarra (who spotted the […]

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Facebook’s digital wallet Calibra: What it could mean for marketers

The company plans to launch a digital wallet in 2020, setting the stage for global e-commerce opportunities. Facebook announced it is launching a financial subsidiary in 2020 called Calibra that will include a digital wallet offered as a standalone app and built into Messenger and WhatsApp. The digital wallet will enable global users to make financial transactions […]

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Here’s what you need to know about WhatsApp’s major security flaw

As you’re likely now aware, Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp, which is used by more than 1.5 billion people around the world, has discovered a major security loophole which looks to have been exploited by an Israeli-based group that has a history of working with governments to steal data and spy on citizens through digital means.  As outlined by TechCrunch: “The […]

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Facebook Re-Enables Option to View Profile as a Non-Connection

Hey, remember how Facebook had to remove the ‘View as Public’ option on profiles last year due to a security flaw which had exposed some 50 million users to potential attack? You might not recall, it may have been overshadowed by the various other Facebook security concerns over the last year or so, but back in September, […]

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