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The Dark Truth Behind Whatsapp Founders Leaving Facebook

2May By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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The Dark Truth Behind Whatsapp Founders Leaving Facebook

Yesterday we published a breaking news stating that billionaire and chief executive of Whatsapp, Jan Koum, was planning to leave the parent company, Facebook. Whatsapp’s Last Remaining Co-Founder Exits Facebook. While the departure seemed friendly between the Chief Executive of Whatsapp, Jan Koum, and Chief Executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg but the departure motives suggest otherwise. According to several US media reports, the decision to leave his high position in the ranks of Facebook and its board of directors as well was motivated by disagreements about the company’s future. Reports suggest that Koum disagreed with the social media giant’s plan to weaken the messaging app’s encryption and strategy to use specific user information to earn money from Whatsapp. ...

Despite Data Leak Scandal, Facebook Profit Increases

26Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Despite Data Leak Scandal, Facebook Profit Increases

Facebook recorded a significant increase in profits in the first quarter of 2018, thanks to a growing user base and bigger revenues from ads as the social media giant seems to suffer neither harm nor backlash after the recent data leak of over 87 million Facebook users. The profits the Silicon Valley-headquartered company recorded in the first quarter of this year soared by over 63% from last year to $5 billion, while total revenues witnessed an increase of 49% to $11.97 billion, according to earning figures shared by the company. Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who despite spending most of the last month under pressure from the international community following the news of his company failing to protect data of millions of users from a third-party app, shared a message to investors ...

Facebook and Instagram Revise Community Guidelines and Policy

25Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Facebook and Instagram Revise Community Guidelines and Policy

Facebook, the social media giant still caught in the midst of a data breach scandal, announced today that it will conduct a series of public events across several countries, including India as an initiative to improve and refine its community standard guidelines. The social media company announced that it was revising its internal enforcement guidelines to its users on Tuesday and the major innovation is that users can now challenge decisions of the company to remove photos, videos or posts it believes to violate community standards. “We decided to publish these internal guidelines for two reasons. First, the guidelines will help people understand where we draw the line on nuanced issues. Second, providing these details makes it easier for everyone, including experts in different fie...

Cambridge Analytica Will Launch Investigation on its India’s Operation

25Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Cambridge Analytica Will Launch Investigation on its India’s Operation

Cambridge Analytica, the data consultancy firm accused of deliberately using personal Facebook users data for target advertising during the 2016 US elections announced that it will investigate and report all its activities around the world, which includes India. A spokesperson for the company revealed that while the firm focuses primarily on its US operations, its parent company, SCL Elections handles operations in other parts of the globe. All the national issues and national associations are part and parcel of the independent investigation. Rest assured, India, Kenya, Nigeria, all the other countries that SCL has been working in historically, will be investigated and reported on as part of the independent investigation, he told reporters during a press conference. The press conf...

The Top Ten Most Downloaded Apps in India

20Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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The Top Ten Most Downloaded Apps in India

Given the growing human dependence on internet and smartphones, the application market has been constantly booming.Indians are using smartphones and the internet in diverse aspects of their lives and owning a smartphone is really seen as an asset to facilitate one’s life. Smartphones and their apps are extensively being used for communication among peers, to do some shopping or buy groceries, for cashless payments and food delivery. The evolution of this digital revolution is also extending to other sectors such as health, insurance, loan credit and entertainment as well, cementing the digital culture further in the Indian society Presently, India stands among the most internet-friendly ecosystems in the world and the scale and scope of this new...

16Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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How Cricketers like Virender Sehwag Make Rs 30 Lakh Using Social Media

While he may have retired professionally for over a year now, nonetheless he continues to rule our hearts not only with his masterful strokes but also as a newly found social media entertainer! Yes, we are talking about our very own Viru paaji (nickname). Virender Sehwag the most destructive batsmen to have adorned Indian cricket industry is now making it big in the world of social media with his maiden skill to grab eyeballs through his unconventional, funny and witty Tweets like never before! "I have, in the last six months, made around Rs. 30 lakh through my Tweets", says, a much pleased Sehwag. While people can't stop gushing over his witty tweets, the brands to have not been able to resist the temptation of showcasing him for their brand promotion! Given the magnificent scope of cri...

Google is Shutting Down its URL Shortener Platform goo.gl

12Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Google is Shutting Down its URL Shortener Platform goo.gl

Google’s URL Shortener platform ‘goo.gl’ will no more be available starting 13 April 2018. Existing users will still be able to shorten their URL and view their analytics data through the same platform for one more year until March 30, 2019 when the platform will be officially discontinued. Google URL Shortener is a feature of Google Inc that allowed users and non-users to shorten links and was useful when advertising links on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. The platform was launched in 2009 in a bid to facilitate the sharing of links while allowing registered users to measure their online data traffic. Additional URL shortening services then popped up and drastically changed the way internet users found content on the World Wide Web from desktop webpages to app...

Even Zuckerberg Personal Data was Breached by Cambridge Analytica

12Apr By NitishNo Comments

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Even Zuckerberg Personal Data was Breached by Cambridge Analytica

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder, and CEO of Facebook revealed shocking news during the testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee that even his personal data was taken and sold by UK based analysis firm Cambridge Analytica. 87 million users personal data harvested by the company is used for political purposes in the US presidential elections. In which half of the million data of Indian users. During the series of questions asking by the committee, Zuckerberg was asked if his personal data was included in the information sold to the "malicious third parties" to which he replied "yes". As per the guidelines are given by the US Congress committee, Facebook has started to notify those users whose data have been breached. Zuckerberg said, "it is going to take some time to wor...

Mark Zuckerberg – “It Was My Mistake, I’m Sorry.”

10Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Mark Zuckerberg – “It Was My Mistake, I’m Sorry.”

Ahead of his hearing in front of Capitol Hill today, Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg once again issued an apology for failing to protect the data of tens of millions of Facebook users and laid emphasis on the new policies put into effect since the scandal was came to light by media outlets. Zuckerberg also conceded that the multiple tools that Facebook used on its social platform was misused for unfair practices. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry, Zuckerberg said ahead of his appearance before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees today. He is also scheduled to appear before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here, the CEO added. Zuckerberg is now set to appear at Capitol Hill after the C...

After Elon Musk, More Tech Moguls Are Deleting Facebook

10Apr By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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After Elon Musk, More Tech Moguls Are Deleting Facebook

Facebook is currently facing a privacy crisis after reports emerged that third party apps such as Cambridge Analytica could access personal user data per millions and use these informations for unfair practices. Consequently, a campaign against the social media giant followed under the banner #DeleteFaceboook which was picked up by several personalities in the tech industry such as Whatsapp co-founder Brian Acton and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Reports are now emerging that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has also shut down his Facebook account obviously concerned by the data policy and possible breaches of private information. He sent an email to USA Today explaining the motive behind his decision to leave Facebook, stating that Facebook enrich themselves by selling users' inform...

Facebook Admits Cambridge Analytica Accessed Data of 87 Million Users

5Apr By Lavina TolaniNo Comments

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Facebook Admits Cambridge Analytica Accessed Data of 87 Million Users

British data firm Cambridge Analytica may have accessed personal information of about 87 million users, according to Facebook Inc.This has come as a first official confirmation regarding possible data leak scope which was earlier predicted to be 50 million. Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer at Facebook in his blog post published on Wednesday, stated Given the scale and sophistication of the situation we have observed, we predict most users of Facebook could have had their personal data scrapped in this manner. The update has come right a week before "Mark" is expected to bespeak before Congress on whether Cambridge Analytica "inappropriately" used data when users downloaded personality apps earlier in 2014. Post the data breach controversy, Facebook has ...

Facebook Ends Third-Party Ad Targeting Program

30Mar By Sheldan RungasamyNo Comments

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Facebook Ends Third-Party Ad Targeting Program

Facebook is reviewing its advertising policy amidst the ongoing controversy surrounding the social media platform about the use of third-party data collected by apps and used by firms such as Cambridge Analytica to target specific users. The move comes only a few weeks before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force in Europe. It is a law designed to give social media users the choice of allowing digital platforms to use their personal data in order to receive accurate ads. Facebook is specifically revising its Partner Categories program that has been effective for the last five years and allowed advertisers to use data obtained from third parties in order to send ads to the relevant audience. Facebook described the program as: With Partner Categories, you ...