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Rishi death: Police may call up BMC Mayor for interrogation

Bhubaneswar: The Commissionerate Police, which is investigating into the much-talked-about death of Asutosh Mohanty alias Rishi, an engineering student, today said that they might call BMC Mayor Anant Narayan Jena for interrogation. Sources in the Commissionerate Police said that on the basis of the allegations by the Student Congress, statement by three friends of Rishi […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Probe into Rishi death begins

Bhubaneswar: After keeping the investigation into the death of Asutosh Mohanty alias Rishi, an engineering student, under wraps for over six months, the commissionerate police have reopened the case with a fresh investigation. While police had interrogated three friends of Rishi yesterday, another friend Subham Das was interrogated by the police. Talking to media persons […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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After Twitter, Naveen now joins Facebook

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has joined popular social networking site Facebook with the profile name naveen.odisha

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
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City boy declined Facebook job, opted for start-up

By Debasis Barik Bhubaneswar: He is just 23 years old, but already owns a company making him one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the State. Significantly, he launched the company after declining a job offered by Facebook two years ago, an offer many would have found difficult to resist. But the aspiring entrepreneur said; “Thank […]

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
Nepal quake: Facebook raises funds

Kathmandu: Social networking website Facebook has raised funds over $10 million within two days to support earthquake-torn Nepal. The Himalayan nation was rattled by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter Scale on April 25 which left over 6,000 dead and injured more than 10,000. “We gave people the option on Facebook to support local […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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FB Plans To Invest $1 Bn To Empowering Creators

Facebook has announced that it is planning to invest over $1 billion in programmes that give creators new ways to earn money for the content they create on Facebook and Instagram.

  • Thursday, 15 July 2021
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Can quitting Facebook change your life?

New York: Want to quit Facebook? According to a new study, it can have both positive as well as negative effects on your life. The study, led by Hunt Allcott, Associate Professor at the New York University, suggest that Facebook plays an important role as a source of (real) news and information, as people who […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Facebook, Twitter remove hundreds of malicious accounts

San Francisco: Facebook and Twitter have taken down multiple Pages, groups and accounts from Iran, Russia, Bangladesh and Venezuela that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on their platforms. Facebook removed 783 pages, groups and accounts that it said was directed from Iran, in some cases repurposing Iranian state media content, and engaged in coordinated inauthentic […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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India helped Facebook gain daily users, log record profits

San Francisco: Despite facing intense scrutiny over data privacy, Facebook stock rose 12 per cent after it logged a record revenue of $16.91 billion — up from $12.97 billion in the year-ago period — in the fourth quarter that ended December 31. The social media giant now has 2.32 billion monthly active users (MAUs) globally […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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WhatsApp announces 'Startup India-Grand Challenge'

New Delhi: In an effort to encourage entrepreneurs and small businesses in India, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp on Thursday announced the “Startup India-WhatsApp Grand Challenge”. The top five start-ups will receive a total grant of $250,000, the company said in a statement. “Ideas and business models capable of making a large-scale socio-economic impact and solve […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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With 2.32 bn users, Facebook earns record profits

San Francisco: Despite facing intense scrutiny over data privacy, Facebook stock rose 12 per cent after it logged a record revenue of $16.91 billion — up from $12.97 billion in the year-ago period — in the fourth quarter that ended December 31. The social media giant now has 2.32 billion monthly active users (MAUs) globally […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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Irish watchdog warns Facebook over WhatsApp integration

London: The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has warned Facebook over its planned integration of its chat services — WhatsApp, Messenger and photo-sharing app Instagram, asking the social media giant to provide it with an “urgent briefing” on the proposals. In a statement, the Dublin-headquartered Irish watchdog said it understood the plan was at a […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Facebook to launch transparency tools for electoral ads in India

New Delhi: As India faces elections in a couple of months, Facebook said it will launch transparency tools for electoral ads next month in the country to help prevent foreign interference and make political and issue advertising on its platform more transparent. Advertisers will need to be authorised to purchase political ads and the social […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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About 8,000 Facebook users die daily, is your digital will ready?

New Delhi: Nearly 8,000 Facebook users die daily. By the end of this century, Facebook will become the worlds biggest virtual graveyard as there will be more profiles of dead people than of living users. Facebook is just one of the several social media platforms. Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit and others have flooded us, […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Facebook 'tricked' kids, parents to spend money on 'free' games: Report

San Francisco: Facebook engaged in practices that “tricked” children and their parents into spending money in free-to-play games, the media has reported. According to records that are part of a class-action lawsuit, and include internal Facebook memos, secret strategies and employee emails, the social media giant engaged in what was internally dubbed “friendly fraud” in […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
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