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Facebook Says Over 40 Lakh Indians Pledged For Blood Donation
30Nov By Press Trust of IndiaNo Comments
INSPIRATIONAL

Facebook Says Over 40 Lakh Indians Pledged For Blood Donation

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ver 40 lakh people in India have signed up as blood donors on Facebook since it pioneered the feature in October, the first in any country, the social media giant has announced. At its second annual Social Good Forum yesterday in New York, Facebook said it will roll out the blood donation feature in Bangladesh early next year, as it unveiled a host of new tools and initiatives for communities to help people. Facebook had in October launched a new blood donations feature, starting in India, to make it easier for people to donate blood. "There are now more than 4 million blood donors signed up on Facebook in India," said Naomi Gleit, Facebooks vice president of social good. In addition to enabling people in need to connect to blood donors, our tools also a...
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Russian Twitter Accounts Promoted Brexit Ahead Of EU Referendum: Times Newspaper
15Nov By reutersNo Comments
USA

Russian Twitter Accounts Promoted Brexit Ahead Of EU Referendum: Times Newspaper

Russian Twitter accounts posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in the 48 hours around last year’s referendum in an attempt to sow discord during the vote on whether to leave the European Union, the Times newspaper reported on Wednesday. The Times cited research from an upcoming paper by data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley, which it said showed accounts based in Russia had tweeted about Brexit in the days leading up to the June 23 vote. The Times said most of the tweets seen by the newspaper encouraged people to vote for Brexit, although a number advocated remaining in the EU. It quoted Tho Pham, one of the paper’s authors, as saying “the main conclusion is that bots were used on purpose and had influence”. The research tracked 156,...
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Facebook Tests Splitting Its News Feed Into Two
24Oct By reutersNo Comments
News

Facebook Tests Splitting Its News Feed Into Two

The Facebook News Feed, the centrepiece of the world’s largest social network service, is a streaming series of posts such as photos from friends, updates from family members, advertisements and material from celebrities or other pages that a user has liked. The test, which is occurring in six smaller countries, now offers two user feeds, according to a statement from the company: one feed focused on friends and family and a second dedicated to the pages that the customer has liked. The change could force those who run pages, everyone from news outlets to musicians to sports teams, to pay to run advertisements if they want to be seen in the feed that is for friends and family. The test is taking place in Bolivia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Serbia, Slovakia and Sri Lanka, and it will lik...
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Facebook To Launch News Subscription Feature, Some Big Names Opt Out
20Oct By reutersNo Comments
News

Facebook To Launch News Subscription Feature, Some Big Names Opt Out

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it has signed up 10 news publishers including the Washington Post and The Economist to take part in a trial that gives its mobile app users access to a limited number of articles a month and then the option to subscribe via the publishers’ own websites. The move is a shift in strategy for the world’s largest social network, which previously has tried to keep users within its own service, and may help restore its image by strengthening ties to respected news organizations after the spread of false news stories on Facebook in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.  It may also help soothe relations with some publishers, which often see their articles widely shared among Facebook’s more than 2 billion monthly users but have found it hard to transl...
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Facebook To Sell Portable Headset For Virtual Reality
12Oct By reutersNo Comments
News

Facebook To Sell Portable Headset For Virtual Reality

Facebook Inc is launching a new virtual reality headset that does not require a separate computer to operate, allowing more mobile uses than the company’s existing Oculus Rift product, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. Zuckerberg, speaking at a conference for virtual reality developers, said the “Oculus Go” device would cost $199 and ship early next year, too late for this year’s holiday shopping season but likely ahead of rivals. Facebook has invested heavily in virtual reality hardware in hopes the technology, which offers a 360-degree panoramic view of faraway or imaginary spaces, will move from a niche interest to a widely used platform for gaming, communication and business applications. In 2014, Facebook paid $3 billion to acquire Oculus and retain its emplo...
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Mark Zuckerberg Seeks Forgiveness For Division Caused by his Work
2Oct By reutersNo Comments
News

Mark Zuckerberg Seeks Forgiveness For Division Caused by his Work

Facebook Inc founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people in a Facebook posting marking the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement on Saturday. “For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better,” Zuckerberg said in the post. He did not refer to specific issues in the message, which comes as Facebook and other technology companies are under increased scrutiny amid a U.S. investigation into potential Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election campaign. Facebook said on Sept. 6 it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political messages in ...
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Facebook To Roll Out Updates To Link To Faster Loading Webpages
5Aug By RishabhNo Comments
News

Facebook To Roll Out Updates To Link To Faster Loading Webpages

Facebook has repeatedly been hit by the complains of slow webpage loading in its News Feed. So it has decided to fix the problem by rolling out updates in the coming months to improve user experience and take loading time into account. It released the following letter announcing about the updates: (more…)
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WhatsApp Crossed Its 1 Billion Daily Users Milestone Globally
27Jul By PriyankaNo Comments
ANALYSIS

WhatsApp Crossed Its 1 Billion Daily Users Milestone Globally

Messaging app WhatsApp today said it has crossed the one-billion daily users milestone globally. "Just last year, we shared that one billion people around the world use WhatsApp every month. Today, we are excited and proud to share that one billion people around the world use WhatsApp every day to stay in touch with their family and friends," WhatsApp said in a statement. Its monthly user base -- people who use WhatsApp atleast once in a month -- stood at 1.3 billion. The Facebook-owned company said about 55 billion messages and 4.5 billion photos are shared every day globally on its platform. The app, which supports 60 languages, also sees 1 billion videos being shared on a daily basis. India is the largest market for WhatsApp with over 200 million monthly active users as of Febru...
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Legendary Quotes From 45 Successful Entrepreneurs
1Jun By RishabhNo Comments
BLOGS

Legendary Quotes From 45 Successful Entrepreneurs

An entrepreneur is someone who organises and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Ever wondered how the likes of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, J.K Rowling and many others became successful entrepreneurs? Believe it or not they know what it’s like to launch a new business and to start from the beginning. These successful entrepreneurs have worked their way up to the top and created a powerful name for themselves and for their business. Despite becoming successful entrepreneurs, the journey might not have always been an effortless one either but it’s what you learn on the way that counts within business. So let's hear out what these 'Super' entrepreneurs have to say to you: (more…)
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Mark Zuckerberg Gets Harvard Degree, Urges Harvard Grads to Take Risk
26May By AnkitaNo Comments
News

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Harvard Degree, Urges Harvard Grads to Take Risk

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned on Thursday to Harvard University, the school he dropped out of to start the pioneering social network, to urge its graduating class to help create a new social safety net to allow creative risk-taking. The 33-year-old tech founder of the world's largest social networking company said he would never have been able to risk leaving the elite Ivy League school if he had not known that his family would have been able to support him if he failed. "There is something wrong with our system when I can leave here and make billions of dollars in ten years when millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business," Zuckerberg told the crowd on a cold, drizzly day when graduates' dark academic robes stood in contrast to the ...
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Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users
13Apr By PriyankaNo Comments
News

Facebook Messenger Crosses 1.2 Billion Monthly Active Users

Facebook's Messenger today said it has crossed 1.2 billion monthly active users milestone with the addition of about 200 million new users in last eight months. "We now have over 1.2 billion people actively using Messenger every month," Facebook Head of Messenger David Marcus said in a post on the social networking platform. In July last year, Facebook had said it had 1 billion users of Messenger, its messaging service on the social networking platform. Facebook has seen similar traction for its other products as well with India being a key consumer. WhatsApp, its mobile messaging app, has over one billion users of which about 200 million are from India. Its photo-sharing app Instagram has about 600 million users globally. Reports suggest Facebook's flagship app has 1.74 billion m...
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