Jun 29, 2024
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Meta said that it took down over 15.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.8 million pieces of objectionable content across 12...
Jun 02, 2024
New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) Meta said that it took down over 11.6 million pieces of bad content across 13 policies for Facebook and more than 5.4 million pieces of objectionable content across 12...
May 02, 2024
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced new features for WhatsApp Communities and its groups.
Apr 25, 2024
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Meta now has 3.24 billion family daily active people (DAP) on average across its family of apps, an increase of 7 per cent year-over-year. Instagram Threads has reached...
Mar 05, 2024
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) In one of the worst outages for Meta in years, its entire family of apps -- Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads -- went down for millions across the globe, including...
Mar 04, 2024
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Former India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni sent the fans into a frenzy by posting a cryptic note about donning a new role in the new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL...
Feb 19, 2024
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The Misinformation Combat Alliance (MCA) on Monday said that it has collaborated with Meta (formerly Facebook) to launch a dedicated fact-checking helpline on WhatsApp in...
Jan 25, 2024
New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) To help protect teens from unwanted contact, and to make it simpler for parents to shape their teens’ online experiences, Meta on Thursday announced 'stricter private...
Dec 28, 2023
San Francisco, Dec 28 (IANS) Social media giants like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube collectively made nearly $11 billion in advertising revenue from US-...
Dec 13, 2023
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) Meta is expanding its fact-checking programme to Threads platform, as the US and India gear up for general elections next year.
Dec 01, 2023
San Francisco, Dec 1 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) has said that it recently took down a network of thousands of fake and misleading accounts based in China.
Nov 10, 2023
San Francisco, Nov 10 (IANS) Meta has teamed up with Amazon to make it easy for users to shop Amazon products directly from Facebook and Instagram.
Nov 04, 2023
San Francisco, Nov 4 (IANS) Meta has announced a new distribution model for Instant Games (IG), allowing developers to publish their games directly to people on Facebook, even if the game is in the...
Nov 01, 2023
New Delhi, Nov 1 (IANS) Meta said that it took down over 29.7 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.4 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in...
Jul 17, 2023
London, July 17 (IANS) Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta has been banned from carrying out behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway, unless...
Jul 12, 2023
San Francisco, July 12 (IANS) Meta's Indian-origin executive Vishan Shah, who oversees Meta's metaverse project, has claimed that the "hype" around the metaverse is dead.
Jul 12, 2023
San Francisco, July 12 (IANS) Meta has announced that it is rolling out real-time avatar calls on Instagram and Messenger.
Jun 27, 2023
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Meta on Tuesday announced new features to support teens and families and make it even easier to manage the time they spend on its apps like Instagram, Facebook and Messenger...
Jun 13, 2023
San Francisco, June 13 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) has released its AI-powered music generator called 'MusicGen', which will turn text description and melody into audio.
Jun 07, 2023
New Delhi, June 7 (IANS) Meta on Wednesday brought its verified subscription bundle on Instagram and Facebook to India that includes a verified badge that authenticates accounts with government ID,...
May 02, 2023
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Meta said that it took down over 38.4 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.61 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in...
Apr 21, 2023
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) In a new round of layoffs, Meta (formerly Facebook) has handed pink slips to employees with technical backgrounds across the globe, leaving many workers angry and...
Apr 19, 2023
San Francisco, April 19 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly set to lay off another round of mass layoffs on Wednesday that will affect at least 4,000 highly-skilled employees, the media...
Apr 05, 2023
San Francisco, April 5 (IANS) Meta's cloud gaming service Facebook Gaming has announced that users can now play their favourite games during video calls on Messenger.
Feb 12, 2023
After laying off 11,000 employees last year, Facebook parent company Meta is likely to announce a fresh round of layoffs this 2023 which it called as the ‘ year of efficiency’, which founder and CEO...
Nov 17, 2022
Facebook parent company Meta has appointed Sandhya Devanathan, vice president of Asia Pacific gaming vertical as vice president of India operations.
Nov 15, 2022
At a time when the global tech companies are in the news for laying off their employees, WhatsApp’s head of India Abhijit Bose has quit the world’s major messaging platform.
Nov 13, 2022
Amroha (UP): A missing married woman from Telangana was found dead in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, police said. The accused has been arrested, Superintendent of Police Aditya Langeh said.
Nov 11, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta laid off more than 11,000 of its employees in one go. One of the employees who was shown the door was an Indian man, who has shared his plight after getting fired in just two...
Oct 29, 2022
Hyderabad: Today, we’re announcing the participants of this year’s Community Accelerator Program from India.
Oct 13, 2022
There have been reports that many Facebook users have been losing followers on the social media platform and reports state that the Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg too also lost millions of followers.
Oct 12, 2022
Vikarabad: A 20-year-old woman in Doma mandal of Vikarabad has alleged that a 24-year-old Army man from Dadapur has cheated her after promising to marry her.
Sep 05, 2022
Facebook is all set to shut down the hyperlocal feature called Neighborhoods from October 1. This platform allowed people to connect with their neighbours, discover new places in their neighbourhood...
Jun 10, 2022
After the recent exit of Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and head of AI, Jerome Pesenti, we now hear that engineering executive David Mortenson is reportedly stepping down and the place will be taken over...
Jun 08, 2022
Kothagudem: Bhadradri Temple City’s Facebook community page has been hacked. The hackers have targeted the temple city’s community page and posted obscene images on it.
Jun 02, 2022
San Francisco: Meta Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg announced to step down from her key role after 14 years as the company’s second-highest ranking executive. She joined Facebook in...
May 11, 2022
WhatsApp is making some significant changes that will improve the service and get it closer to competitor chat applications in some circumstances.
Apr 27, 2022
First Facebook was hit by the targeted advertising bans on iPhones and the rising popularity of TikTok, now the world’s largest video service Google’s YouTube is also facing heat.
Mar 13, 2022
Instagram will be banned in Russia from Monday (March 14th, 2022). Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram through his Twitter said that 80 Million Russians are going to lose their Instagram accounts.
Nov 27, 2021
Using social media platforms such as Snapchat, Facebook, or TikTok is likely to be associated with an increase in depressive symptoms, according to a new study.
Oct 30, 2021
Seoul: The South Korean government's personal information privacy watchdog suggested on Friday that Facebook's operator pay each of the 181 users seeking damages for their personal information being...
Oct 30, 2021
In relation to the February 2020 riots that occurred in Delhi, the Delhi Assembly's Committee on Peace and Harmony on Friday summoned the representatives from Facebook India to come on November 2 to...
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