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• A pre-launch history of Facebook at Work

  Facebook is about to release its much-anticipated business collaboration service. Here's a look back at the last 20 months of Facebook at Work's growing pains, partnerships, pilot programs and delays.

• How Facebook keeps you from hating its apps

  Nothing provokes app uninstalls like sluggish performance and aggressive battery consumption. Facebook reveals how it uses mobile device testing to prevent those uninstalls.

• Taking a closer look at bots from Apple, Facebook and Google

  'Bots' are hot today, and popular tech companies including Apple, Facebook and Google all take dramatically different approaches to bot technology. Here's what bots from these consumer giants could mean to enterprises.

• America’s data centers are getting a lot more efficient

  U.S. data centers have used about the same amount of energy annually over the past five years or so, despite substantial growth in the sector, according to a new report published by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

• Twitter dives as Facebook continues to thrive

  Facebook continues to defy expectations with incredible growth in virtually every important area of business success, and its accomplishments stand in stark contrast to Twitter's decidedly tepid performance.

• Facebook in the zone: 5 things it’s doing right

  With all the positive news that came out of Facebook's earnings call, the social networking giant has hit the zone.

• Will company's trust their communications to A.I. chatbots?

  Facebook says chatbots will change the way businesses communicate with their customers, but will businesses want to put their user communications in the hands of artificial intelligence?

• 3 big tests for Facebook at F8

  Facebook kicks off F8 this week with some big tasks that should dominate its efforts this year.

• Facebook Live revamp hints at what's to come at F8

  A week before its annual F8 conference, Facebook took aim at live video rivals Periscope, Snapchat and YouTube with a series of new 'Facebook Live' features that encourage you to create more live video, as well as watch and interact with video in real time.

• Facebook's Canvas a ‘big moment’ for mobile ads

  Facebook yesterday announced a new full-screen, mobile ad format called Canvas that's designed to help advertisers engage customers with detailed brand experiences.

• Ads in Messenger could be Facebook's next big thing

  Facebook is reportedly readying a new user-initiated advertising medium within its popular Messenger app that could reshape the ad industry.

• 12 Facebook flops to commemorate its 12th birthday

  You can’t get it right all the time, and no one knows that better than the king of social media. Here are 12 examples of famous Facebook fails.

• Why Facebook should buy Slack to win the enterprise

  As Facebook prepares to launch its Facebook at Work enterprise collaboration toolset, popular messaging app Slack continues to gain passionate users. Experts say a Slack acquisition could help Facebook ride the smaller company's momentum into enterprise.

• How tech giants spread open source programming love

  Industry giants like Google, Facebook and Ericsson have already solved many of the large-scale problems that smaller companies are now facing.

• Facebook at Work chief shares details on its new social enterprise tools

  Facebook plans to release its Facebook at Work social network for business in the 'coming months.' The project's leader spoke with CIO.com about the motivation behind Facebook at Work, how the consumer-focused company prepares to take on business customers and how the tools enable new levels of productivity.