Tag: Meta

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.

The Facebook and Instagram parent company reported over 87,000 employees (as of September).

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.

Meta-owned WhatsApp down for the last 30 minutes! . The outage reported across the country has affected both personal/private as well as group chats. While there is no official response from WhatsApp, thousands of users have reportedly complained of disruption in services.

In May, along with new features, the company rolled out the ability to add up to 512 people to a group from 256 people.

The company has created a number of techniques, such as speech-to-unit translation, which converts input speech into a series of sounds and generates waveforms from them.

About 68 per cent mobile subscribers, on an average, receive 4 or more promotional or spam SMSs every day with every subscriber surveyed getting spam, according to online community platform LocalCircles.

Tech giant Google has introduced its own video-generating AI titled 'Imagen Video' that would compete with Meta's 'Make-A-Video' offering.

The report said 93 per cent of Diwali shoppers are likely to try a new brand in the holiday season, and 80 per cent of them now discover new brands or products online.

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'.

The report also mentioned that it will temporarily reduce the number of recommended posts users see as it plans to improve and rework its algorithms.

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

The platform had banned over 16.6 lakh bad accounts in India in April.

On the microblogging site, the company wrote that now users can select who from their contact list can see Profile Photo, About, and Last Seen status.

According to WABetaInfo, this feature is under development so it is not ready to be released to the public.