Board Member’s ‘Colonialism’ Tweet Makes Big Mess for Facebook
(NEWSER) – Facebook just lost an important legal fight in India, and now one of its board members has complicated its next steps. The mess started when Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen...
View ArticleFacebook is watching and tracking you more than you probably realize
Whenever you’re on Facebook, do you ever get the feeling that you’re being watched? An ad pops up that’s right up your alley, or three new articles show up in your feed that are similar to something...
View ArticleFacebook delivers the scoop on how it delivers the news
Will “Trending topics” become a “trending” topic on Facebook? The social media giant on Thursday pulled back the curtain on how its Trending Topics feature works, a reaction to a report in the tech...
View ArticleFacebook launches suicide prevention tools for its 148 million Indian users
Last year, when Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone spoke publicly about her struggle with depression, she started an important discussion on mental illness, a subject that remains socially taboo in the...
View ArticleFacebook launches ‘Workplace’, a business version of Facebook
You probably already use Facebook at work. Now, Facebook is creating a separate version aimed at helping you do actual work instead of catching up on baby photos and political chatter. Facebook is...
View ArticleTencent poised to rub shoulders with Apple and Facebook as China’s first...
Tencent Holdings is within touching distance of becoming the first Chinese technology company to top a US$500 billion in market value, joining an elite club led by hi-tech industry stalwarts Apple,...
View ArticleFacebook reportedly plans to launch its own cryptocurrency
Facebook is reportedly planning to launch its own cryptocurrency, according to a report from Cheddar’s Alex Heath. Currently, there isn’t too much detail, but the company is said to be specifically...
View ArticleIn a Sign of the Times, Facebook Drops ‘Trending’ Box
(NEWSER) – Facebook has announced that it is dropping the “Trending” news section that sits to the right of the News Feed, reports theverge. Facebook introduced the section in 2014, but it never got on...
View ArticleReport: WhatsApp Founders Walked Away From $1.3B
(NEWSER) – Itching to take your job and shove it? What if doing so meant leaving $1.3 billion on the table? That’s what the Wall Street Journal reports the founders of WhatsApp did in exiting Facebook...
View ArticleFacebook Reveals More Than 50 Hardware Data Partnerships In Document
Social media giant Facebook has spent most of 2018 fighting off accusations of data misuse, and a document released over the weekend will not stem that tide. Facebook gave hundreds of pages worth of...
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