Patanjali’s WhatsApp challenger 'Kimbho' taken off amidst backlash
01 Jun 2018
While 1.5 lakh people downloaded the app in just three hours, Patanjali spokesperson SK Tijarawala said the chat app was only launched on a trial basis and would be launched officially later
Delhi HC issues notices to Google, FB, others for revealing identity of Kathua rape victim
19 May 2018
With virtually no customers left, Cambridge Analytica shuts down
03 May 2018
Cambridge Analytica, the UK marketing analytics firm at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, shut down on Wednesday and will begin bankruptcy proceedings as it sees ‘no realistic alternative to placing the company into administration’
Facebook pulled out 1.9 mn pieces of extremist content in Q1 of 2018
26 Apr 2018
Facebook says terrorist groups and hate organisations are banned from the site and it takes down any content that praises these outfits, actions, or members
Zuckerberg vows to fix Facebook flaws before polls in India
11 Apr 2018
Appearing before a Senate committee, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg apologised for the kind of lapses that led to the Cambridge Analytica imbroglio, and said he knows the importance of the upcoming polls in countries including India, Hungary and Brazil
Facebook faces another CA-like scandal, suspends CubeYou
09 Apr 2018
Facebook is suspending a data analytics firm called CubeYou from its platform after media outlet CNBC notified the company that the firm was collecting information about users through quizzes and possibly selling it to advertisers
Facebook, Google are getting too big to be governed, warns French President
04 Apr 2018
French President Emmanuel Macron says Facebook and Google were getting too big to be governed, and the US government may have to consider dismantling them, as happened with the oil majors in the early part of the 20th century
War of words between Apple, Facebook bosses
03 Apr 2018
The war of words between the heads of Apple and Facebook has worsened with both the top bosses indulging in heated exchanges in various media interviews
Seeding the social network
29 Mar 2018
Facebook veteran Mike Hoefflinger talks to Swetha Amit about the coming of age of the social media platform
Musk and Mark raise the muck
24 Mar 2018
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are battling it out over SpaceX and Facebook, much to the glee of their global ‘followers’
Mark Zuckerberg apologises for ‘major breach of trust
22 Mar 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asserted he would not let the social media be misused during elections including the one to be held in India next year
Government will not tolerate Facebook interfering in 2019 elections: Ravi Shankar Prasad
21 Mar 2018
UK regulator clears Facebook, WhatsApp of data-sharing charges
15 Mar 2018
The two most significant developments of the latest truce are that WhatsApp and Facebook will not be fined; and WhatsApp has signed an undertaking committing publicly not to share personal data with Facebook in the future until the two services can do it in a way that is compliant with data protection rules
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