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Facebook to let you play games during video calls on Messenger
Facebook to let you play games during video calls on Messenger

"This new, shared experience in Messenger makes it easy to play games with friends and family while in a video call, allowing you to deepen connections with friends and family by engaging in conversations and gameplay at the same time," the company said in a blogpost.

  • Wednesday, 05 April 2023
Elon Musk
Musk says 'inevitable' as Meta unveils paid verification on FB, Insta

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday reacted to Meta's announcement of the new paid verification for Instagram and Facebook, and stated it as "inevitable."

  • Monday, 20 February 2023
Love on Facebook: Swedish woman marries Indian Engineer, here's how it all happened
Love on Facebook: Swedish woman marries Indian Engineer, here's how it all happened

Christen was dressed in a red bridal attire while Pawan wore a suit. The two exchanged garlands and sat through the wedding rituals

  • Monday, 30 January 2023
Donald-Trump
Meta to restore former US President Trump's Facebook, Instagram accounts

Trump, 76, announced in November last year that he will make another dash for the White House in 2024.

  • Thursday, 26 January 2023
Meta now lets users bundle Instagram, Facebook account settings.
Meta now lets users bundle Insta, FB account settings

The company is also making improvements to some of the ad settings controls.

  • Friday, 20 January 2023
Meet Sandhya Devanathan, the new Meta India head
Meet Sandhya Devanathan, the new Meta India head

She will start her new role on January 1, 2023 and will report to Dan Neary, Vice President, Meta APAC.

  • Thursday, 17 November 2022
Meta plans to shut down video calling smart display Portal, smartwatches projects
Meta plans to shut down video calling smart display Portal, smartwatches projects

The Meta executives announced at an internet meeting that the company has planned to kill both Portal and the wearables, reports The Verge.

  • Saturday, 12 November 2022
Indian woman wakes up at 3am to feed daughter, receives Meta’s layoff mail
Indian woman wakes up at 3am to feed three-month-old daughter, receives Meta’s layoff mail

According to her Linkedln post, Anneka Patel was on a maternity leave. She woke up at 3am to feed her three-month-old daughter. However, she received a mail about the layoff at 5:35am.

  • Friday, 11 November 2022
Meta
Zuckerberg sacks 11,000 employees, extends hiring freeze at Meta

The company also removed access to most Meta systems for people leaving, given the amount of access to sensitive information, "keeping email addresses active throughout the day so everyone can say farewell".

  • Wednesday, 09 November 2022
Meta logs another revenue decline amid concerns over metaverse plans
Meta logs another revenue decline amid concerns over metaverse plans

In Q2 2022, the company's revenue was $28.82 billion, a one per cent decrease from $29.07 billion in the second quarter of 2021.

  • Friday, 28 October 2022
Facebook
Facebook threatens to ban news in Canada over proposed Online Act

Meta said that the Canadian government's approach is particularly misguided because, under the current system, Facebook helps publishers.

  • Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Meta warns 1 mn users about 400 malicious apps that targeted them
Meta warns 1 mn users about 400 malicious apps that targeted them

Meta said Apple and Google have taken down those 400 malicious apps from their respective online stores.

  • Saturday, 08 October 2022
Facebook
Facebook alert saves life of NEET aspirant, Here's Detail

This was a part of an agreement between the Uttar Pradesh Police and the social networking site to save precious lives through real-time alerts and action.

  • Friday, 09 September 2022
Instagram, Facebook
Now everyone can cross-post Reels from Instagram to FB

The Meta-owned platform confirmed that it will soon begin testing new 'ultra-tall photos'.

  • Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Teen girls find it more difficult to give up social media than boys
Teen girls find it difficult to give up Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook than boys

When asked about the idea of giving up social media, 54 per cent of teens say it would be at least somewhat hard to give it up, while 46 per cent say it would be at least somewhat easy.

  • Saturday, 13 August 2022
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