This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
Haven't they heard about the 'Tale of Two Brothers'? asks Suveen Sinha.
A 10-year-old Finnish boy has received a $10,000 reward from Mark Zuckerberg for spotting a bug in Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram, becoming the youngest hacker to receive a cash reward from the social media giant for hacking its own products.
Eruditus runs on a partnership model with top global universities such as MIT, Columbia, Harvard, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton, and UC Berkeley, offering courses in coding, data science, fintech, block chain, and entrepreneurship.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated that the 'Make in India' programme would be a success because of the three Ds namely demographic dividend, democracy and demand during the interactive session at the Facebook headquarters in California on Sunday.
The ministry has raised five questions in all including whether the personal data of Indian voters and users has been compromised by Cambridge Analytica or any other downstream entity in any manner.
Gizmodo reported on Monday that a former Facebook employee claimed workers "routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers," while "artificially" adding other stories to the trending list
Das faced allegations of opposing enforcement of hate-speech rules against Bharatiya Janata Party and other right-wing leaders. She was also accused of posting messages in support of the BJP for several years on a Facebook group of the company's employees.
The company plans to create a new class of non-voting shares.
Here are 10 takeaways from what Modi told the Facebook town hall
British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the centre of a controversy in India, the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014. How does that matter, what does it entail and should you be worried? All these answers and more, explained right here.
Indian e-commerce companies in particular have been using their Facebook pages extensively to reach out to as many consumers as possible, apart from paid advertisements.
Initiative aims to encourage more people to use the Internet.
FB gave these companies access to information of users and even their friends.
Oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd head Mukesh Ambani continues to be the richest Indian and has now broken into the world's top 10 wealthiest persons in the latest Forbes 2024 Billionaire List. Ambani, 66, is ranked 9th on the list with a wealth of $116 billion, up from $83.4 billion in the 2023 ranking, according to Forbes. Gautam Adani is the second richest Indian and is ranked at No.17 on the global list.
Zuckerberg will be in India on October 28.
Facebook -- which counts India among its largest markets with over 300 million users -- has been in the eye of a storm after a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report alleged that the social media platform's content policies favoured the ruling party in India. The report had accused Facebook of ignoring posts containing hate speech by BJP MLA Raja Singh. Since then, the ruling BJP and Congress have been trading barbs over the social media giant's alleged political bias.
US President Barack Obama leads the popularity chart with over 43 million followers, followed by the Pope Francis, who is followed by over 14 million people on social site Twitter.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
The social media giant had launched a public campaign to defend its platform.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
Facebook is appealing the class certifications, which the Menlo Park, California-based company said are "without merit" and conflict with "well-settled" precedent
Mark Zuckerberg, the 29-year old chief executive who co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, said the company was beginning to reap the benefit of investments to retool certain products.
Surprisingly, Jeff Bezos is the new entrant to the list and ends up holding the first position.
The social media giant promised that news and views will be checked for veracity and pejorative content will be weeded out.
More than 350 moguls lost their billionaire status this year. Some will make comebacks, while others will have to live with being a mere millionaire.
Here are a few issues that are most talked about Modi's California visit
Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said India will grow to be among the top three economies in the world in the next two decades and per capita income would more than double. At a fireside chat with Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, he said India's middle-class, which is about 50 per cent of the nation's total number of households, will grow three to four per cent per year.
Sandberg is also expected to meet developers at the company's headquarters in Hyderabad.
Giving People asks its signatories to commit publicly to give away majority of their wealth.
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Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said universal connectivity and net neutrality "can and must" coexist.
As per official estimates, India's population currently is 1.3 billion people. Facebook pages on Thursday reflected that Modi is followed by 44 million people, while the account of Trump by 27 million. The US population is estimated to be 325 million.
Sites like Facebook and Orkut may be great for connecting with others, but they also provide a sure-fire way for broadcasting intimate details about you.
The notice came after reports that political parties had used the data analytics firm during elections.
US media reports that Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could be the latest technology giant to downsize its workforce have triggered trepidation among its 300-400 employees in India, according to people familiar with the matter. "We have not heard much about the impact (of downsizing) on India. "It's a wait-and-watch situation. Certainly, there is uncertainty," said a source.
They've made their millions much before they completed school! Here are five really, really wealthy techies.
Forbes has come out with a list of the world's 20 youngest billionaires under 40. Here we carry eight billionaires under 30 who made their fortunes by the virtue of inheritance and hard work.
From Assange to Zuckerberg, meet the men who you can love or hate but simply cannot ignore.
Out of the world's 1,426 billionaires, there are 29 people under 40 years old.
