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Facebook seeks to patent software to analyse who lives with you

To help determine whether people live in the same home, the software could look at how often people are tagged in pictures together and at the captions of the photos, it said.

Nov 19, 2018

Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to resign: Report

As a fallout of the report, Facebook stocks fell 3 per cent on Friday to $139.53, the lowest since April 2017.

Nov 17, 2018

Facebook braces for India 2019 Elections, ties up with AFP to stem fake news

Facebook has tied up with global news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) to monitor and check facts in India as a third party organization

Nov 12, 2018

WhatsApp to get message preview option soon: Quick facts

WhatsApp preview message will help the user make final changes to the message before sending it to the friends or family.

Nov 8, 2018

Facebook adds special 'Diwali' Stories feature for users in India: Here's how it works

Facebook had several value-added features with Diwali theme-based masks, frames and interactive filters in the Facebook Stories.

Nov 7, 2018

Microsoft doesn't use customers' data for profit: CEO Satya Nadella

LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought for $26 billion, has over 560 million users and Bing is the number 3 search engine globally.

Nov 6, 2018

Facebook apologises for 'White supremacy' advertisement

Earlier this week, The Intercept was able to select "white genocide conspiracy theory" as a pre-defined "detailed targeting" criterion on the social network to promote two articles to an interest group.

Nov 4, 2018

WhatsApp ties up with Indian industry association to train small & medium business entrepreneurs

With the new WhatsApp-CII programme, the company will try to improve the communication skill set of young entrepreneurs to connect with their customers and grow their businesses.

Oct 30, 2018

WhatsApp users finally get to share Sticker messenger app, also support third-party packs: Quick facts

Both the WhatsApp versions of Apple iOS and Google Android platforms will soon support Stickers. Read more to know how third-party developers can bring more sticker packs to Google Play and Apple App Store.

Oct 28, 2018

Facebook on expansion spree, to open office in Bengaluru

Facebook's expansion underlines the growing importance of India, which has nearly 250 million users, one of the largest in the world.

Oct 22, 2018

WhatsApp to get new mode that will let you have peaceful vacation

WhatsApp's Vacation Mode is said to be a toggle on/off feature in the Settings and once activated, all the new messages will be archived and hidden so that the user will never have the temptation to look into the phone,

Oct 21, 2018

Facebook shareholders support proposal to oust Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

In recent months, hackers have stolen personal data of millions of Facebook users and manipulation of the platform by foreign players and dissemination of fake news.

Oct 18, 2018

Facebook blamed for writers losing jobs due to inflated video-view metrics

Media organizations reportedly fired writers to hire video producers after Facebook inflated its video-view statistics.

Oct 17, 2018

India's data localisation decision leaves global digital payment firms in a bind

The RBI guidelines say that all digital payment firms like Google Pay, WhatsApp and others must store data locally for their businesses. The deadline to comply with the norms ended on Monday.

Oct 15, 2018

Hackers stole personal data of 29 million users, says Facebook

According to the company, 14 million users had their data including date of births, education details, employers and friends list stolen, while 15 million users had their name and contact details stolen.

Oct 13, 2018

Accepting just one video call on WhatsApp gives hackers control over your account! Should you be worried?

Facebook-owned WhatsApp had security loop-hole that made Android and iOS phone users getting hacked with just a video call.

Oct 11, 2018

Facebook Lite launched for iOS but there's a catch - the app is only available in Turkey

The download size of the lite app is under 5MB. Its essential features are that it uses less battery, bandwidth, and storage space on the device, which is similar to the Android version of the app.

Oct 6, 2018

Instagram may soon share user's detailed location data with Facebook, inciting privacy concerns among users

Facebook states that says it hasn't yet made the feature public, and that Instagram presently does not store location history. But this doesn't mean that the feature won't be released later on.

Oct 5, 2018

US woman sues Facebook, claims website enabled sex trafficking

According to the lawsuit, the woman was "friended" on Facebook in 2012 by a user who appeared to know several of her real-life friends.

Oct 3, 2018

Facebook faces $1.63 billion fine over data breach that exposed 50 million accounts

In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook on Friday admitted hackers broke into nearly 50 million users' accounts by stealing their "access tokens" or digital keys.

Oct 1, 2018

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