On Tuesday, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB)’s shares inclined 0.64% to $92.90.
Facebook Inc., is creating a dislike-type button, chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday.
Zuckerberg, who spoke during a live Q&A town hall Tuesday, said that the Menlo Park-based company is working on creating a feature that lets people express empathy with their friends on the social media site, CNBC stated.
Zuckerberg noted that if you’re sharing something sad, then you may not feel comfortable having people hit ‘like’ on that post.
In December, Zuckerberg had said the company was thinking about creating a “dislike” button, USA Recently stated. He said at the time that he wanted to make sure the company didn’t build something that assisted users say “that thing isn’t good,” the publication stated. USA Recently also noted that in 2013, Facebook engineers designed a “sympathize” button during a hackathon.
Back in 2009, Facebook’s chief privacy officer Chris Kelly had said a ‘dislike’ button was unlikely, saying it could “degrade the quality of the conversation.” CNBC Reports
Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. It provides a set of development tools and application programming interfaces that enable developers to integrate with Facebook to create mobile and Web applications.
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)’s shares gained 1.57% to $57.13.
Comcast Corporation will host a conference call with the financial community to talk about financial results for the third quarter on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (ET). Comcast will issue a press release reporting its results earlier that morning.
Comcast Corporation operates as a media and technology company worldwide. It operates through Cable Communications, Cable Netoperates, Broadcast Television, Filmed Entertainment, and Theme Parks segments.
At the end of Tuesday’s trade, Centurylink Inc (NYSE:CTL)‘s shares surged 1.53% to $26.47.
CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) declared that it has one of the largest fiber-enabled gigabit netoperates in the country and continues as an industry leader in the number of homes it has enabled with broadband speeds up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). CenturyLink now offers gigabit Internet service to residential and small business customers in parts of 17 states and, by the end of 2015, should have more than 700,000 households across the country enabled with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology capable of uploading and downloading information at speeds up to 1 Gbps.
CenturyLink first launched gigabit service to residents and small businesses in Omaha in 2013 as part of a fiber network trial and in August 2014, declared that it had expanded that gigabit service to residential and business customers in 16 markets. In May of this year, CenturyLink extended gigabit fiber service to additional small and midsized businesses (SMBs) located near the company’s fiber network backbone or in fiber-fed multi-tenant unit office buildings, resulting in gigabit service being accessible to nearly 490,000 SMBs.
CenturyLink, Inc. provides various communications services to residential, business, governmental, and wholesale customers in the United States. It operates through two segments, Business and Consumer.
Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE:M), ended its Tuesday’s trading session with -1.18% loss, and closed at $57.18.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept. 15 – Oct. 15), Macy’s (NYSE:M) celebrates Hispanic and Latino culture and accomplishments with celebrity guests Mario Lopez, Don Omar and Angel Merino, who have influenced pop culture through their music, lifestyle and beauty expertise. During exciting special events across the country, Macy’s will bring together these three influyentes to share their inspiring stories with customers in live candid conversations.
Macy’s, Inc., together with its auxiliaries, operates stores and Internet Websites in the United States. Its stores and Websites sell a range of merchandise, counting apparel and accessories for men, women, and children; cosmetics; home furnishings; and other consumer goods.
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