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Facebook is working on a feed just for shopping I'm Bridget Carey this is you're seen that update Facebook is testing new ways to get you to shop inside of Facebook the social network has been tinkering with new types of shopping advertisements for a while now you may have noticed ads that's girl from left to right with boxes that reveal a different product from a company's collection but when you click on an item it usually takes you to an outside website that could be slow to load so Facebook now wants to keep you browsing products longer inside a Facebook before you leave it's created some new complex ads to browse products that are designed similar to a catalog also under the Moore section below your list of friends events and groups you're gonna see a shopping section which puts these ads in one feed for you to peruse this summer Facebook began allowing some small businesses to sell items directly on Facebook pages and now those businesses can list items in this shopping section it'll also eventually be a place to see items for sale listed by any Facebook groups you belong to now only if there was an eye-roll reaction to show Facebook what we really think of a shopping feed as you may have heard Facebook is testing new ways to respond to someone's post beyond a thumbs up like button there are these animated Smiley's for haha yay Wow sad and angry along with a heart for when you love something so you may use the angry or sad to support someone who shares bad news instead of liking it but it still could be tacky to do that instead of just leaving a comment Facebook only rolled this out to users in Spain and Ireland so far and speaking of bad reactions here's one that may upset your stomach Pepsi is making a Pepsi smartphone I can't believe I just said those words there have been teases about it on the Chinese Pepsi social media account Weibo and a few Android blogs are posting leaked details about a Pepsi branded Android phone being unveiled in Beijing next week on October 20th reports of the parts suggest it's a decent phone it's called the Pepsi p1 and the total price would be really low the equivalent of 200 US dollars guess they think this Pepsi generation won't mind a logo for a discounted average Android phone well here's the funny thing about a Pepsi phone any text or I say next is gonna sound completely logical by comparison so how about this the streaming video service Hulu is working on a virtual reality Channel to launch next month it's launching in time for Samsung's gear VR headset which requires you to snap your smartphone inside to watch anything the gear VR cost $100 and Hulu is commissioning a series that is purely virtual reality and it's also working on a short film called the big one won't be long before we get virtual reality commercials that's it for this tech news update and there's more at cnn.com from our studios in New York I am Bridget Carey