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Facebook Unveils Business Suite To Help SMBs Grow On Its Apps

San Francisco: To help small and medium businesses (SMBs), the social networking giant has introduced Facebook Business Suite — a new interface to help businesses save time and stay up to date by managing their Pages or profiles across its family of apps. The suite allows them to post to Facebook and Instagram at the […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Facebook Introduces New Rights Manager To Protect Creators’ Images

San Francisco: In a bid to help creators and publishers manage their intellectual property related to images, Facebook has introduced Rights Manager for images. The new version uses image matching technology to help creators and publishers protect and manage their image content at scale. To access Rights Manager, Page admins can submit an application for […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Facebook Fixes Instagram Bug That Turns Phones Into Spying Tools

New Delhi: Facebook has patched a critical vulnerability in Instagram that could have given an attacker the ability to take over a victims Instagram account, and turn their phone into a spying tool, simply by sending them a malicious image file. When the image is saved and opened in the Instagram app, the exploit would […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Zynga Announces Closure Of FarmVille Game On Facebook From Dec 31

New Delhi: The popular FarmVille game will not be available on Facebook after December 31 as the social network is ending support for Flash games, the same date software giant Adobe is killing its Flash Player altogether. Although people may treat the game as annoying in the age of multi-player, high-end games, FarmVille was a […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Facebook Finally Integrates Messenger With Instagram

New Delhi: In a first serious step to realising the dream of CEO Mark Zuckerberg to integrate its family of apps, Facebook on Wednesday announced to connect the Messenger and Instagram for a cross-app chat with bringing some of the best Messenger features to the popular photo and video sharing platform. Messages and calls from […]

  • Monday, 12 April 2021
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Facebook To Remove All Content From Far-Right US Group QAnon

San Francisco: Facebook has announced to remove any Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts representing the far-right conspiracy theory group QAnon, even if they contain no violent content. This is an update from the initial Facebook action in August that removed Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts associated with QAnon when they discussed potential violence while imposing […]

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
Facebook Spent Rs 171 Crore On Mark Zuckerberg's Security In 2020
Facebook Spent Rs 171 Crore On Mark Zuckerberg's Security In 2020

San Francisco: Facebook spent more than $23 million (about Rs 171 crore) to provide security for its CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2020. The company’s annual reviews of company security “identified…

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
Protection Of UPI Transactions Data: SC Seeks Response From Centre, Facebook, Google
Protection Of UPI Transactions Data: SC Seeks Response From Centre, Facebook, Google

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, Amazon and the Centre on a plea filed by CPI MP Binoy Viswam seeking protection of data of transactions made over UPIs. The plea said that instead of fulfilling their statutory obligations, the RBI and the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) […]

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
WhatsApp Business New Features: Facebook Adds Shopping, Pricing Tiers
WhatsApp Business New Features: Facebook Adds Shopping, Pricing Tiers

New Delhi: Facebook on Thursday said it will finally start charging companies using WhatsApp for Business, as it expanded ways for its users to check out available products and make purchases right from a chat. Some 50 million businesses and 175 million people message a WhatsApp Business account every day and this move will help […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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Data Protection: Parliament's Joint Panel Summons FB, Twitter

New Delhi: A joint committee of Parliament on Friday issued summons to Facebook in order to seek its “oral evidence” on the issues of data protection and privacy. Twitter too is said to have been directed for appearance next week. The joint committee led by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi has 20 members from the Lok […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
WhatsApp May Add Face Unlock Support Feature On Android Devices
WhatsApp May Add Face Unlock Support Feature On Android Devices

New Delhi: WhatsApp is reportedly preparing to bring support for face unlock feature on Android devices. According to WABetainfo, a website that tracks WhatsApp in Beta, the feature will be very helpful specifically for Pixel 4 users as the device comes without a fingerprint sensor and only supports facial recognition. Once the feature rolls out, […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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'Who The Hell Are You?', US Lawmakers Scold Twitter, Facebook, Google CEOs

New York: “Baloney!”, “sham!” and “who the hell are you” scoldings dominated a Senate hearing on Wednesday where the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google took heat in a talking match with US lawmakers over the idea of free speech and alleged anti-conservative bias on the companies’ mighty platforms. The Congressional grilling quickly shifted into […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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Youth Thrashed For ‘Harassing’ Married Woman On Facebook

Bhadrak: Harassing a married woman and making advances at her on Facebook proved costly for a Balasore youth as he was reportedly beaten black and blue by her relatives in Bhadrak. Fed up with repeated harassment, the woman along with her relatives lured the youth into a trap and called him to meet her at […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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Facebook Worldwide Removes Thousands Of Fake Accounts

San Francisco: Facebook has removed 1,196 accounts and 994 malicious accounts from Instagram, along with 7,947 Pages and 110 Groups involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. In October, Facebook removed 14 networks of accounts, Pages and Groups. Eight of them — from Georgia, Myanmar, Ukraine and Azerbaijan — targeted domestic audiences in their own countries and […]

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
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Facebook To Send Groups On Probation For Violating Content Rules

San Francisco: Facebook has announced to send Groups that violate its content rules on a sort of probation, like forcing Group moderators to manually approve all posts for 60 days. The move is to slow the spread of misinformation on its platform, Facebook told The Washington Post on Sunday. Facebook will restrict all Groups with […]

  • Friday, 09 April 2021
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