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Facebook alert in time saves life of NEET aspirant

As per the agreement, any person who submits social media posts on intention to end life, the site concerned will issue an alert to the police control room and help will be rendered immediately.

Sep 9, 2022

US Department of Justice likely to probe Apple over anti-market practices

After taking on Meta (Facebook) and Google with antitrust lawsuits, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly drafting an antitrust case against Apple, alleging that the company "abused its market power to stifle smaller tech companies, including app developers and competing hardware makers".

Aug 27, 2022

Delhi High Court dismisses appeals against CCI probe into WhatsApp privacy policy

The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed the appeals filed by WhatsApp and Facebook (now Meta) challenging the single judge bench's order, which had refused to stay the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) last year's order.

Aug 25, 2022

Instagram can track user's web activity including confidential information, via in-app browser: Report

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is capable of tracking its users' actions, text choices and even text input, such as passwords and confidential credit card information, if they visit a link inside the app, says a new report.

Aug 11, 2022

Facebook to shut live shopping feature from Oct 1; shifts focus to Reels [details]

Facebook has announced to shut its live shopping feature from October 1 and focus on the short-form video platform Reels on its main app and Instagram.

Aug 4, 2022

Technology: Sheryl Sandberg officially steps down as Meta COO

Meta chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg has finally moved on from the position after spending 14 years as the second most-important executive at the social network.

Aug 2, 2022

Music: Short-video leader TikTok now plans own music streaming service

After dominating the short-video format market and giving jitters to Meta (formerly Facebook), TikTok parent company ByteDance is now eyeing the music streaming market with launching 'TikTok Music' and threatening the global players like Spotify, Apple Must and the rest.

Jul 30, 2022

Meta Quest headsets to no longer require FB account [details]

Tech giant Meta has announced that users can now log in to virtual reality (VR) headsets without using their Facebook credentials.

Jul 8, 2022

FaceBook sues Chinese firm Octopus for scraping data from FB, Instagram

Meta has sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping data from Facebook, Instagram and other big tech platforms.

Jul 6, 2022

WhatsApp says banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in May

Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of May in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021.

Jul 1, 2022

Meta rolls out parental controls for Quest VR headsets

Meta, formerly Facebook, has announced that it is adding parental controls to all Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets that will allow parents to keep a tab on underage users' screen time and receive approval requests for purchases.

Jun 15, 2022

IT Ministry ponders Big Tech's content moderation decisions, posts draft plan to reverse them

The Indian government has republished a draft that reveals the plan to form an appeals panel that can reverse content moderation decisions by Big Tech companies like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Jun 7, 2022

Instagram launches 'AMBER Alerts' to help find missing children in their area

Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram has announced that it is launching AMBER Alerts on the platform that will allow people to see and share notices of missing children in their area.

Jun 2, 2022

Facebook's parent company to change stock ticker to META with effect from June 9 [details]

Meta has announced that its Class A common stock will begin trading on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol 'META' prior to market open on June 9, 2022.

Jun 1, 2022

Facebook's dark mode interface disappears for iOS users; no one knows why [details]

Meta-owned Facebook's dark mode interface for iOS platform has reportedly disappeared for several users.

May 29, 2022

Meta rolls out updated 3D Avatars in India

Meta on Tuesday rolled out updated 3D Avatars on Facebook, Messenger and for the first time on Instagram stories and direct messages in India.

May 25, 2022

Instagram testing NFTs this week, Facebook soon: Zuckerberg

Meta-owned Instagram is starting to test digital collectibles or non-fungible tokens (NFTs) this week, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, as the global NFT market sees downturn.

May 10, 2022

Reduce depression, anxiety, stress and improve overall well-being by staying away from these [Check]

Taking a break from social media sites, including Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, for at least a week may lead to significant improvements in wellbeing, depression and anxiety, finds a new study.

May 7, 2022

At 332 mn users, Snapchat growing faster than Facebook, Twitter

Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 million (year-on-year).

Apr 22, 2022

WhatsApp likely to roll out new drawing tool features

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is likely to roll out a new drawing tool features for its users.

Apr 12, 2022