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Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn’t necessarily have to be to an event. So to help you discover bars, restaurants, and nearby attractions, Facebook is rebranding its standalone Events app as “Facebook Local”. Launching in the U.S. today on iOS and Android, Facebook Local combines events and permanent places to a single search engine powered by Facebook’s 70 million business pages plus reviews and […]

What do you get the man who has everything? If you're billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, finding a Christmas present might be challenging - so instead he built himself one. Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook back in 2004, has revealed the first version of an artificial intelligence (AI) platform he created to help run his home. Named Jarvis, after the fictional AI in the Iron Man film series, Zuckerberg's assistant was […]

In light of its recent video fiasco and growing pressure from advertisers to open up its so-called walled garden for more third-party verification, Facebook today is announcing a ton of changes to its measurement system. Facebook has added a new metric called "video watches to 100 percent," which tracks both completed views and completed audio. "Video watches to 100 percent" replaces a previous stat that was called "video views to 100 percent." […]

Facebook might muscle-in on LinkedIn’s recruiting business with ways for business Pages to promote job listings. The new Jobs features could give companies another reason to drive traffic to their Facebook Page beyond marketing their products in the News Feed, while also allowing them to pay the social network to get their open position in front of more candidates. Today TechCrunch spotted a Jobs tab on its Page, and now […]

Facebook is gunning after Craigslist and eBay. On Monday the social network introduced a new tab in its mobile app called Marketplace, which lets you buy and sell things to people in your city. It will replace the Messenger shortcut in the bottom center of the main Facebook app. Facebook says it created Marketplace because 450 million people already buy and sell things every month to each other through organized Facebook groups — think "Electronics for sale […]