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Mark Zuckerberg's wife pregnant with girl

San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said that he and wife Priscilla Chan were expecting another baby girl. Their first child, Max, was born in late 2015. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said that when he found out his wife was pregnant, he hoped it would be a girl. His announcement came with […]

  • Monday, 05 July 2021
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Facebook's internal conversations, memos leaked online

San Francisco: Internal conversation between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company excecutives were leaked online that contained a highly confidential 2012 memo detailing several policy matters. “About 60 pages of un-redacted exhibits from a lawsuit between Facebook and Six4Three, an app developer, were posted anonymously on GitHub,” the Guardian reported on Friday. The leaked […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Ukrainian hackers used quizzes to leak over 60K Facebook users' data

San Francisco: Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that leaked their profile data and friends lists to offshore servers, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the company. Andrey Gorbachov and Gleb Sluchevsky allegedly used the browser extensions to overlay their own advertisements onto […]

  • Monday, 03 May 2021
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Facebook mistakenly deleted Zuckerberg's posts

San Francisco: In a bizarre incident, social networking giant Facebook has said that it “mistakenly deleted” CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s old posts, some of them dating back to 2007 and 2008. A spokesperson from the company reportedly said many of Zuckerberg’s old posts about Facebook can still be found on the company’s blog and in its […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Facebook actively working on WhatsApp Pay in India

San Francisco: Facebook is upbeat on the growth of digital payments in India and is actively working on launching WhatsApp Pay soon, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said. In an earnings call with analysts late Wednesday, Zuckerberg said the company is building out Payments for the global market. “We have a test that is running in […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Facebook sues New Zealand firm for Instagram fraud

San Francisco: In order to “protect the integrity” of its platform, social networking giant Facebook has sued a New Zealand based fraud company that sold inauthentic likes, views and followers for Instagram posts and accounts for an undisclosed amount. Facebook estimates that the company, Social Media Series Limited, run by Arend Nollen, Leon Hedges and David […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
'Privacy-focused' Facebook unveils new look, features

San Francisco: In yet another bid to make its platforms “privacy-focused” amid close scrutiny into its privacy practices from governments the world over, Facebook has unveiled new looks and features for Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp. Addressing nearly 5,000 developers at its annual F8 conference in San Jose, California late Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg said gaining users’ […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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Mark Zuckerberg rejects call to break up Facebook

London: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected the call for breaking up his company, saying the size of Facebook was actually a benefit to its users and for the security of the democratic process. In an interview with French broadcaster France 2, Zuckerberg dismissed the claim made by his long-time friend and Facebook co-founder Chris […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
Mark Zuckerberg set to face leadership vote

San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was likely to face a leadership vote at the social networking giant’s annual general meeting on Thursday to step down as Chairman. According to the BBC, Zuckerberg was “unlikely to lose the vote because he owns 60 per cent of the company’s shares”. “However, the percentage of shareholders who […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Facebook may introduce its cryptocurrency in June

San Francisco: Facebook may finally launch its long-rumoured cryptocurrency later in June. The cryptocurrency, under Facebook’s “Project Libra”, is reportedly aimed at allowing Facebook’s global users to transfer money across borders and to make online purchases. With its cryptocurrency, the social networking giant is planning to include bonuses for merchants that adopt it. Infact, employees […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Towards a happier, less nastier Facebook

Menlo Park (California): Passive use, loneliness and the agony of social comparisons are some of the “ills” being battled on social media and Facebook’s answer to these are: easier ways to comment back, a dating feature and a time tracker to check overuse. During the International Press Day event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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'Deepfakes' videos different from fake news: Zuckerberg

San Francisco: Admitting that Facebook cannot fight fake news on its own, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg is considering to treat “deepfakes” and misinformation separately so that altered “deepfake” videos can be tackled in a better way. “Deepfakes” are video forgeries that make people appear to be saying things they never did, like the popular forged […]

  • Thursday, 29 April 2021
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Twitter Adds Covid Vaccine Prompt In Users' Timelines

New Delhi: Twitter has added a new prompt in the timelines of users to help them get correct vaccination information in their respective countries including India. The new prompt appears…

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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WhatsApp quietly rolls out tool to share status on Facebook

San Francisco: Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has begun rolling out a feature for Android users to let them share their status stories directly on Facebook Story and other apps. Just like Instagram, WhatsApp’s status Stories let users post images, text and videos on your profile that disappear after 24 hours. WhatsApp hasn’t made an […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Facebook encryption to make child porn rampant: FBI head

Washington: If Facebook continues with its data encryption project, it will only help child pornographers flourish on the social networking platform without any control, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray has said. In a speech at the US Justice Department on Friday, Wray said: “When it comes to protecting children, we’re at […]

  • Saturday, 24 April 2021
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