Instagram just proved it is far from done with going after Snapchat. The photo app is adding live video and new messaging features that allow users to privately share disappearing messages outside of Stories, the company announced Tuesday. The new messaging features, which are beginning to roll out now, essentially make Instagram Direct a lot

When you’re using an app day in and day out, it’s easy to miss out on new features that get added. You get a notification for an update, you update, and you continue using it as you always did. But what did you get in all those updates? WithWhatsApp, quite a bit. The best social

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

Are you using Instagram to promote your business? Want to increase your exposure? Making a few simple tweaks to your Instagram marketing can generate more engagement and increase the visibility of your content. In this article you’ll discover how to get more exposure for your brand on Instagram. #1: Embrace the Hashtag Descriptive hashtags on Instagram

WhatsApp reached a milestone this week, topping 900 million monthly active users. The Facebook-owned cross-platform messaging application reached 800 million MAUs in April, 700 million MAUs and 30 billion messages per day in January and 500 million MAUs in April 2014.   WhatsApp co-founder and Facebook board member Jan Koum broke the news in a Facebook post, simply stating: “WhatsApp now

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

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

A local Digital Marketing Company managed by a young St.Lucian entrepreneur has partnered with 5 Global Website giants to provide 100 different marketing products and services to businesses in St Lucia and the Caribbean. The Alpha Innova Group has formed strategic partnerships with Tech Giants: Godaddy, Hostgator,Vistaprint, Google and Tripadvisor in its quest to provide

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

Hesitant to post that political link to Facebook? Worried about expressing your opinion on Twitter? It might be changing how you talk offline. A survey by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with Rutgers University has found that social media doesn’t encourage discussion on controversial subjects. It may, in fact, cause people to stay quiet.