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Facebook’s new update allows users to share live videos and collages
05 Dec 2015
The new feature will enable 1.5 billion Facebook users use their smartphones to shoot video so other people can see what they are doing as it happens or, alternatively, watch live video of friends and family doing something fun
Facebook CEO and wife pledge 99% of shareholding to charity
02 Dec 2015
The donation, amounting to $45 billion at Facebook's current value, will not, however, be made immediately, but over the course of the couple's lives
Stressful to have over 300 FB friends: research
20 Nov 2015
Instagram user baser doubles in Indian in a year
20 Nov 2015
Facebook deactivates, restores account of woman named Isis
20 Nov 2015
Following the terror attacks in Paris last week, Facebook de-activated the account of a San Francisco engineer Isis Anchalee
Dumping Facebook makes people happier: study
13 Nov 2015
A study in Denmark says that subjects who quit the social networking site found themselves happier, better focussed and more enthusiastic
India tops in ‘take-down’ requests to Facebook
12 Nov 2015
Requests from the Indian government to take down content on Facebook violating local laws has more than tripled from the second half of 2014 to 15,155 pieces
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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