Facebook's new app 'Riff' allows users to make posted videos go viral

Tech News - According to a report, when users create a Riff video for the first time, they can tag a friend and make it trend.

The app is available on both iOS and Android mobile devices. It originated after last year's ALS Ice Bucket Challenge when people began posting videos of them upturning buckets of ice water on their heads in the name of charity.

Josh Miller, the product manager of Facebook's Creative Labs said that the aim is to make these videos grow as big as possible to get as many views and as many clips.

Snapchat has a similar feature "Our Stories" that looks like an inspiration for Riff with its crowd sourced collection of photos and videos tied to popular events around the world.

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745 million users log on to Facebook daily from mobile phones

From its total userbase of 1.39 billion users globally, about 890 million access Facebook on a daily basis (daily active users or DAUs). About 745 million of these log in using their mobile devices, Facebook said in a statement.
   
About 1.18 billion people access Facebook on their mobile devices at least once a month (monthly active users or MAUs).
   
"DAUs were 890 million on average for December 2014, an increase of 18 percent year-over-year, while mobile DAUs increased 34 percent. MAUs were 1.39 billion as of December 31, 2014, an increase of 13 percent year-over-year, while mobile MAUs were 1.19 billion, up 26 percent," it added.
   
The US and Canada accounted for about 157 million daily users, while Europe and Asia Pacific contributed 217 million and 253 million users, respectively.
  
Rest of the World had 263 million users at the end of the December 2014 quarter.

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Facebook must face lawsuit for scanning of users' messages, says US Judge

U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, on Tuesday dismissed some state-law claims against the social media company but largely denied Facebook's bid to dismiss the lawsuit.
             
Facebook had argued that the alleged scanning of its users' messages was covered by an exception under the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act for interceptions by service providers occurring in the ordinary course of business.
             
But Hamilton said Facebook had "not offered a sufficient explanation of how the challenged practice falls within the ordinary course of its business."
             
Neither Facebook nor a lawyer for the plaintiffs responded to a request for comment Wednesday.
             
The lawsuit, filed in 2013, alleged that Facebook scanned the content of private messages sent between users for links to websites and would then count any links in a tally of "likes" of the pages.
             
Those "likes" were then used to compile user profiles, which were then used for delivering targeted advertising to its users, the lawsuit said.

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Facebook may add 'Sell' feature for groups: Reports

According to a reports, some users have seen a 'Sell Something' button just next to the 'Write Post' button while posting to a group.

Facebook also confirmed the report that it was testing a new feature within Facebook Groups to help people better organize posts about items they'd like to sell to other people on Facebook.

"Any transaction made through a Facebook group is between you and the seller. Keep in mind Facebook doesn't own or possess any items a seller lists, so if you have any questions about the things you're buying in a Facebook group, try contacting the seller," a Facebook notice stated.

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