December 31st, 2018
The social networking giant Facebook has accelerated its reach to Indian IT services firms including HCL Technologies, Wipro and Tech Mahindra for the purpose of content moderation, anti-money laundering and data analytics as it faces increased global pressure and scrutiny to curb rumours as well as fraud on the...
December 26th, 2018
The social networking giant Facebook has doubled its annual spending on legal and advertising expenses and investment in India, underlying the complexity of challenges it faces from regulators to deal with the enormous amounts of incendiary messages exchanged on its platform.
The Menlo Park-based company is going through...
December 25th, 2018
Facebook India’s profit jumped about 40% to Rs 57 crore in the year ended March 2018, reflecting the increasing adoption of social media in a country where data costs have reduced drastically.
The company’s total revenue in India surged 53%. The social media major in a financial statement said that the services it...
December 1st, 2018With an aim to popularise original videos on its platform and give a fight to YouTube, Facebook has announced that it is introducing multiple monetization tools for the Indian content creators. This was announced during its first Indian “Creator Day” event.
Facebook has opened ad breaks to all qualifying video creators to help...
November 1st, 2018Facebook’s director of platforms and product partnerships Anand Chandrasekaran based in its Menlo Park headquarters has resigned from the company. He started his job at Facebook in 2016 and after two years of his work, he quit.
His departure ends a two-year stint which began in September 2016, where he had joined to work on...
October 30th, 2018For a long time now, Facebook has been making efforts to cope up for the mistakes that the company made in the recent past and as part of its efforts to train 3,00,000 people in India on digital literacy, it has launched Digital Literacy Library.
This is a collection of lessons in six local languages - Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu,...
October 25th, 2018The most popular social media platform Facebook is working on a new video app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens. The company is basically building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip-syncing or dancing to popular songs, similar to that of the video making app called Tik Tok,...
October 24th, 2018Social media giant Facebook has repaired its messaging app called Messenger in an effort to simplify the service. The company claims to have 1.3 billion monthly global users.
The Messenger began rolling out a redesigned version featuring three tabs instead of nine. The platform stated that it was "going back to its roots" seven years...
October 22nd, 2018The social media giant Facebook is eyeing to take up about 220,000 sq ft office space in Bengaluru which would be their largest office in India. The company has acquired the space in Embassy Golf Links, an office park that houses marquee clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and reinsurer Swiss Re among others.
With...
October 20th, 2018The popular social media platform Facebook has reportedly appointed former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg for the purpose of leading its global affairs and communications team.
This has basically been done as the social network has been dealing with a number of scandals related to privacy, fake news and election meddling....
October 15th, 2018After Instagram, social networking platform Facebook is prepping up to bring in the feature of ‘unsend’ on its messaging app Facebook Messenger. And thus, soon the feature may be nearing a release.
Initially, Facebook announced that it would be adding the "unsend" feature for everyone in April after it came out that messages CEO...
October 13th, 2018The photo-messaging mobile application Instagram that is owned by Facebook is reportedly testing "tapping" as a replacement of scrolling through posts on the platform. The social firm is testing the tap-to-advance feature to navigate between posts in the Explore section of the app.
"We're always testing ways to improve the experience on...
