Company Updates

Facebook is planning to use London as a key hub for the development of a new WhatsApp mobile payment feature. The story was first reported by The Financial Times and confirmed to FORBES by a Facebook spokesperson.

Facebook is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

I am deeply convinced that augmented and virtual reality will be the primary way we work, play, and connect for the next 50 years, just as personal computers and smartphones have changed the world for the last 45 years and counting.

In honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, we're highlighting some of the women at Facebook and across our industry who are blazing trails to help build the future of AR and VR - and the ways in which this community comes together to inspire and lift up other women.

Before joining Facebook in 2014, I was anti-advertising. I thought ads were annoying, spammy, and trying to make me buy things I didn't need. During my first two weeks at Facebook, I was given a list of 10 teams across the company to choose from.

Today we're giving you a peek inside Instagram New York (IGNY), which is a major engineering, product and partnerships hub for us. At IGNY, teams are working on high-impact products like Home (Feed and Comments), Discovery (Search and Explore), and Shopping, which help bring the Instagram community closer to the people and things they love.

We recently hosted our first-ever London Facebook Engineering Fair. The invitation-only event gathered together software engineers, product managers, UX researchers, data scientists, academics, and others working in the technology industry. Several London-based teams gave attendees an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the products and technologies being worked on by our U.K.

This week on the Boagworld Show we are joined by Brooke Baldwin from Facebook to talk about what it is like to do user research for a worldwide audience. Subscribe to this podcast using iTunes, Google Music, Spotify or RSS This week's show is sponsored by The Digital Project Manager School and Pactly.

Today we are chatting with Anna Buldakova, who is working in the Workplace by Facebook Machine Learning (ML) Team. We asked Anna some questions about applications for ML at Workplace, how AI will transform the future of work in teams and even got some cool recommendations for you where to start to learn about product development!