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With much of the web moving inside native mobile apps, Facebook needed a way to get content from inside them into its walled garden. So after previewing it at f8 in April, Facebook today officially la

Facebook For Android's beta tier has been a success, with 1 million testers helping fix bugs before updates go out to its hundreds of millions of mainstream users. So today Facebook launched a beta pr

In hopes of luring in fresh audiences, Facebook Paper announced its first experiment in working with an outside group to populate the Ideas section of its stylized content reader standalone app. The "

A new level of transparency from Facebook will help the world see whether its mobile growth is entirely propped up by international users that don't earn the company as much money. Today Facebook anno

Facebook's on a mission to make mobile Pages more functional. Following a Yelp-ish redesign in April, iOS, Android, and mobile site updates coming later today add an integration with OpenTable to let

Today Facebook announced it will soon begin taking signups for its new Facebook For Android Beta Program that uses Google Play's new beta system to push pre-release versions of its apps to users so th

One day, brands might pay Facebook to become downloadable sticker packs. Facebook just launched its first branded sticker pack for messaging -- a collection based on the new Universal film Despicable

Now you and Facebook's CEO can unwind in the same way: playing with Beast. The billionaire's Puli dog just got his own Facebook Stickers pack, which lets you forgo typing and instead send friends anim

"Alright", "Yes", and the much-hated "k" just got a visual redesign. Facebook's iOS and Android apps have rolled out the option in messages to reply with a one-tap thumbs-up Like button sticker. It's

Facebook's next billion users don't have smartphones or even the Internet yet, but the Facebook Phone could change that. Through savvy carrier deals, subsidized handsets, and free limited data access,

Facebook's new "Home" on Android will debut on a mediocre HTC handset codenamed "Myst" but will be available on standard Android phones, according to an autopsy of a leaked developer build of the Face

Facebook risked driving users away by showing more ads in the news feed last year, but to Mark Zuckerberg's surprise, a big increase in their presence during 2012 only reduced Likes and comments by 2%

Facebook <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/facebook-q3-2012/">laid the groundwork</a> for several new money-makers in Q3 2012. <a target="_blank" href="http://investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cf

Facebook keeps user counts for its mobile apps hidden, but researcher Benedict Evans found <a target="_blank" href="http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/1/2/facebooks-545m-mobile-app-users">a way t

Facebook has just <a target="_blank" href="http://newsroom.fb.com/News/559/Introducing-Poke-for-Mobile">announced</a> its newest standalone app called <a target="_blank" href="https://itunes.apple.com

Facebook today paused the test of its mobile ad network, which lives in other apps that it splits revenue with, and reapplying resources to its mobile feed ads. Freed-up staff could work on bringing i

Facebook and Apple grew closer today as <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/17/facebook-mobile-app-install-ads/">mobile app install ads</a> in Facebook for iOS 6 now allow users to <a target="_bla

Facebook's HTML5 app nightmare is over. <a target="_blank" href="http://newsroom.fb.com/News/554/Facebook-for-Android-is-Faster-than-Ever">Later today</a> it's releasing <a target="_blank" href="https

The first world might use just a handful of handsets, but the key to Facebook's growth is emerging markets fragmented across over 7,000 smart and dumb phones. To help it bug test for all these, Facebo

"In the early days we gave employees iPhones primarily", a Facebook spokesperson tells me. That decision and the rise of Android has left Facebook scrambling to get employees dogfooding its apps for G