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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
Meta
Meta shuts Pak hackers targeting Indian officials via honey trapping, malware

Apart from India, the group of hackers in Pakistan -- known in the security industry as APT36 -- targeted people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to Meta's quarterly 'Adversarial Threat Report'.

  • Saturday, 06 August 2022
Meta brings new monetisation tool for Facebook creators
Meta brings new monetisation tool for Facebook creators

The company said creators must be eligible for in-stream ads in their content to access the tool.

  • Tuesday, 26 July 2022
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
Big tech's financial services play poses systemic concerns like overleverage: RBI Governor

Such companies can include entities in e-commerce, search engines and social media platforms that have started to offer financial services in a "big way" on their own or through tie-ups, he said, adding this is leading to the use of new methodologies in credit assessment.

  • Friday, 17 June 2022
Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg departs after 14 years as Meta COO

Prior to joining Facebook, Sandberg spent six years at Google building up its online sales channels, for AdWords and AdSense tools.

  • Thursday, 02 June 2022
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