In a Monday announcement, Facebook said that it will soon be launching a new app - called 'Slingshot - which will apparently be a take on Snapchat as well as Instagram. The social network Facebook briefly launched its Snapchat-like disappearing-photo app on the Apple App Store on Monday, and then pulled it.

Close on the heels of unveiling a number of optional new features of late, social network Facebook has now updated its iOS and Android apps with a new audio recognition tool is capable of identifying songs and TV shows.

At its annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, social network Facebook unveiled a new 'anonymous login' feature which will give users greater power and more control over their personal data online.

According to an announcement made by Facebook on its Newsroom feed, a new scheme is being introduced by the company to filter its News Feed, so that spam stories can be curbed significantly.

According to Facebook, the key focus in coming months will be to woo travel industry with a series of events, research and targeting refinements. It is confident about the move and to turn one of its fastest growing advertising verticals to one of its biggest in 2014.

After having announced in October 2102 that he was a "proud gay man," Puerto Rican featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz has now proposed to his longtime boyfriend José Manuel.

Nearly six million Facebook users recently had their contact information exposed inadvertently by the social network because of a bug, which was reported by a third-party security researcher via Facebook's White Hat program.

On Sunday, rumors were making rounds online about Facebook social network likely set to announce a new RSS-reading tool soon; but analysts' speculations on Monday suggested that Facebook's Instagram photo-sharing app may, as early as this week, see the addition of video capability.