Tag: Facebook

Zuckerberg, wife's Facebook profiles cannot be blocked

San Francisco: The Facebook profiles of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan cannot be blocked because they have reportedly been blocked so many times that the social media giant is stopping it happening. When people do not want to see your posts, they will either unfriend you, stop following you or they will block […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
Users face outage on Facebook, Instagram

San Francisco: Many users across the globe faced outage on Facebook and Instagram, with a flash message from the company saying the website undergoing “required maintenance”. Late on Saturday, users started to complain that they were unable to access their social media accounts when they attempted to login. According to Down Detector, a website that […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Capture 360-degree photos using Facebook app

San Francisco: Making 360-degree photos more of a common experience, Facebook has rolled out an update letting users capture 360-degree photos using its in-app camera. The update has been rolled out in both iOS and Android and includes the abilities to zoom and tag friends. According to a TechCrunch report on Wednesday, these 360-degree images […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Facebook allows publishers put logos next to headlines

San Francisco: In a move to give publishers a brand recognition on its platfrom, Facebook has released new tools that lets media houses display their logos alongside headlines. According to a report in Adage on Tuesday, publishers can put their logos next to headlines in the trending and search sections to give readers an idea about […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
HBO's Twitter, Facebook accounts hacked

San Francisco: As HBO struggles to stop “Game of Thrones” (GoT) leaks and tackle hackers’ ransom threats, another hacker group has broken into the TV company’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. “Hi, OurMine are here, we are just testing your security, HBO team please contact us to upgrade the security – ourmine.org -> Contact,” read a […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Government directs removal of 'Blue Whale' game links

New Delhi: The government has directed technology giants, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo to remove all links which direct users to the dangerous online game “The Blue Whale Challenge”. The game had allegedly claimed the life of a Mumbai teenager Manpreet Singh Sahani last month. “Instances of children committing suicide while playing Blue Whale Challenge […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Facebook launches YouTube competitor called 'Watch'

San Francisco: In an apparent bid to take on Google-owned YouTube, Facebook has rolled out ‘Watch’ – a redesigned video platform for creators and publishers. The social media giant last year launched ‘Video’ tab in the US which offered a predictable place to find videos on Facebook. “Now we want to make it even easier […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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New WhatsApp Beta version shows UPI payment feature

San Francisco/New Delhi: WhatsApp will soon facilitate instant money transfer via the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transaction system, shows a new Beta update by the Facebook-owned mobile messaging platform. According to a blog website WABetaInfo late on Wednesday, WhatsApp was finally giving shape to its plans towards bank-to-bank transfer using the UPI system. In the […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Odisha to partner with Facebook to train women entrepreneurs

Bhubaneswar: Odisha will partner with Facebook to train women entrepreneurs and Self Help Groups (SHGs) to promote entrepreneurship and digital literacy, an official said on Tuesday. Facebook has agreed to partner with the state government to train altogether 25,000 Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and SHG entrepreneurs in by August 2018. The […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Facebook begins testing 'going live' from its camera

San Francisco: Some users are now able to ‘go live’ on Facebook’s Camera — an option that was earlier available by pressing the ‘Live’ key on the Status update box, media reported. This feature is similar to Instagram ‘Live’ that was launched last year. Some users were able to use the feature that appeared within […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Facebook to show less links to slow-loading websites

San Francisco:  In the coming months, Facebook is updating its News Feed to show more weblinks that load faster and less stories which take time to open. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook executives said they had heard from people how frustrating it is to click on a link that leads to a slow-loading […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Ditching WhatsApp encryption will help terrorists: Facebook COO

San Francisco: Responding to a call that Facebook should do away with the encryption that prevents police from accessing WhatsApp data, the company’s top executive has said such a move would make it difficult to track terrorists if government gets such access. The call for ditching the WhatsApp encryption emerged after five people were killed […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
WhatsApp has 1bn daily active users globally and with 2bn users, Facebook profits up 71% in Q2

New Delhi: WhatsApp has garnered one billion daily active users around the world who transfer over 55 billion messages and one billion videos everyday, the company said on Thursday. The monthly active users of Facebook-owned WhatsApp are over 1.3 billion and it supports 60 languages globally. Over 4.5 billion photos are shared around the world […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
Facebook to launch paid news subscription product

San Francisco: A week after nearly 2,000 publishers in the US formed the News Media Alliance to get an anti-trust exemption from the Congress to negotiate over advertising revenue with digital platforms, a top Facebook executive has confirmed the company would soon launch a news subscription product. Campbell Brown, the head of the company’s news […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
India overtakes US as Facebook's No. 1 user

San Francisco: India has overtaken the US to become Facebook’s largest country audience with a total 241 million active users, compared to 240 million in the US. The change at the top of the platform’s country rankings comes just a few days after Facebook announced it has more than two billion monthly users around the […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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