Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for facilitating anonymous communications between a user and a merchant via a social networking system, wherein the user's identifying information is obfuscated from the merchant.

Abstract: Techniques for product, service, and business recommendation are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a user context component operative to manage a user context associated with a user account for a messaging service; a user profile component operative to retrieve a user profile for the user account; and a recommendation component operative to determine one or more recommendations based on the user context and the user profile and configure a recommendation interface for a messaging endpoint on a client device based on the recommendations, the messaging endpoint associated with the user account for the messaging service. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for facilitating anonymous communications between a user and a merchant via a social networking system, wherein the user's identifying information is obfuscated from the merchant.

Abstract: Techniques to automatically predict and configure payment transaction are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a prediction component operative to receive context information for a user and predict a user interest in a payment transaction based on the context information, a user interface component operative to offer to initiate the payment transaction to the user based on the predicted user interest in the payment transaction and receive a user confirmation of the user interest in the payment transaction, and a payment component operative to initiate the payment transaction in response to the received user confirmation. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to highlight, by a computing system, a reference content item of a plurality of content items associated with a story in response to a selection of the reference content item, the plurality of content items having a first order. The reference content item may be reranked relative to the plurality of content items in response to user input to create a second order of the plurality of content items. The story may be published using the second order of the plurality of content items.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to display, by a computing system, an arrangement of a plurality of content items in a first order. A reference content item may be highlighted at an initial position in the arrangement in response to a selection of the reference content item. The reference content item may be moved to another position in the arrangement in response to a motion input relating to the reference content item to create a second order of the plurality of content items. An arrangement of the plurality of content items may be displayed in the second order.