MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is making it a lot easier for companies to run their business through Facebook. The social network will open up two new sections: Shopping and services, which allows businesses to feature their products and services directly from their Facebook pages. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg introduced the update during a press

Facebook introduces new features all the time, and slowly rolls them out to users. It’s difficult to keep up with all the changes, or know what’s new and useful in the world’s largest social network. So we are revisiting the best things to come from Facebook recently, in case you missed any of them. Of

Lets face it, having a website is a must for any business in this Digital World. How often have you had to respond “It’s Under Construction” as the excuse for not having a digital presence? Did you know that you are missing out on over 50,000 St.Lucians and over 1 Billion people globally who access

If Facebook‘s ever-flowing News Feed does not satiate your thirst for videos of babies and weddings, you’ll like the platform’s new feature. The site now lets you detach a video from the News Feed and move it anywhere within the browser window, so you can scroll Facebook while watching. The option is accessible via an

Facebook’s app and website are back online after an outage that reportedly affected users around the world. The source of the outage, which began Wednesday afternoon, is not yet clear. The outage began at 3:41 p.m. ET, according to downdetector.com, a website that monitors service disruptions. By 3:59 p.m. ET, Facebook appeared to be working again for

Good news, Facebook Messenger haters— there’s a way to keep your messages in the main app without downloading Messenger. Facebook began moving messages out of the main app last week, but as it turns out, there’s a surprisingly simple workaround that allows you to keep chatting without the extra app. When trying to access messages from within the

  The furor surrounding Facebook’s decision to conduct an experiment that secretly manipulated the News Feed of some users to study emotion contagion reached a peak this weekend, with many calling the act creepy at best, and downright unethical at worst. Although the editor of the study recently admitted to being “a little creeped out”

Facebook has updated its Messenger app for iOS and Android devices, giving users the ability to record and send 15-second video messages. Version 6.0 of the app also adds a feature called “Big Likes” — when you really like something, press and hold to send an even bigger “thumbs up” sign. The new version of Messenger

Facebook is addressing the ick factor related to targeted advertising with a new feature that lets you discover why the company is showing you the ads you’re seeing. There is also a mechanism to opt out of such targeting. The company in 2012 introduced ads that were served up based on the sites you visited.

Pinterest is expanding its first major ad offering, Promoted Pins, to all businesses in hopes of capturing ad dollars from small and medium size businesses. San Francisco-based Pinterest announced on Thursday that all businesses will soon be able to pay to promote their content in search and category feeds on the service. Pinterest first rolled