Representatives of Facebook India have been asked to appear on Friday before the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, chaired by Bharatiya Janata Party MP Meenakshi Lekhi, while Twitter officials are required to appear before the panel on October 28, as per the notice issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
Sikhs For Justice plans to picket Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters during Narendra Modi's September 27 visit.
Mark Zuckerberg may be founder and CEO of Facebook, but it is the second-in-command and ChiefOperating Officer Sheryl Sandberg who gets a fatter salary package at the IPO-bound social networking giant.
Aleksandr Kogan, who created tools for Cambridge Analytica that allowed the political consultancy to psychologically profile and target voters, bought the data from the microblogging website in 2015, before the recent scandal came to light.
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.
Alexandr Kogan, the Cambridge University researcher who developed the app used by Cambridge Analytica, claimed he has been made a scapegoat.
Christopher Wylie deposed before the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid an escalating row around alleged Facebook data breaches linked with the controversial UK-based company, which has also been linked with alleged attempts to influence elections in India.
Supreme Court is the final legal option open to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who allege that Zuckerberg stole their idea for the social networking site.
He sued Marc Zuckerberg for $65 million and won. The Social Network focuses on the former Harvard upperclassman's battle. Aseem Chhabra reports.
Giving People asks its signatories to commit publicly to give away majority of their wealth.
'I told myself, I will be 23 next year. Why can't I be a billionaire too?'
Google boss's absence at US-China internet forum meet raises eyebrows.
The judge ruled that the 2008 settlement that gave $65 million to Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in cash and stock still stands.
Mark Zuckerberg said the company believes in Net neutrality "very strongly".
'Our proactive detection rate for hate speech in India is close to 97 per cent -- which means that of the hate speech content we remove, we detect 97 per cent of it proactively, even before anyone reports it.'
The stock-and-cash deal is the biggest in the education space.
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The hacker group called OurMine Team has been posting messages on Quora through Pichai's account.
Find out what Zuckerberg means by giving give Facebook's users 'more control' over what they share.
India is Facebook's largest market with 250 million active monthly users. Along with Google, it has a 70 per cent share in the Rs 1,000 crore domestic digital ad market.
The proposed donation would be by far the largest publicly known gift by Zuckerberg, also the chief executive of Facebook, whose fortune was estimated last year at USD two billion by the Forbes magazine.
With the Facebook India office opening and The Social Network creating Oscar buzz, BS Weekend thinks it's time to tell you more about Mark Zuckerberg.
Zonel Sougaijam, a 22-year-old civil engineer discovered a WhatsApp bug that violated the privacy of a user.
Sandberg also plans to give to anti-poverty efforts and educational groups.
Zuckerberg leads the pack with a net worth of $47.1 billion.
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.
During his two-day stay in Silicon Valley, he would begin and conclude his engagements with the Indian-American community, the last one being an address to a crowd of over 18,500 Indian-Americans at the SAP Centre in San Jose.
My dream is to convert Indian economy into $20 trillion from the present $8 trillion.
"I'm going to India next week and we're talking trade. They've been hitting us very hard for many, many years," Trump said at a 'Keep America Great' rally in Colorado on Thursday. Trump told thousands of his supporters that he "really likes" Prime Minister Modi and they would be talking business.
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.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates tops list of the world's top 25 richest self-made billionaires.
'Advertisers will be prohibited from running political ads -- electoral or issue-based -- until they are authorised,' Facebook said
Mark Zuckerberg's pledge on Tuesday to give away most of his Facebook shares, a roughly $45 billion fortune, helps cement his role as one of Silicon Valley's most generous donors.
'There is no doubt at all that Jio's disruption of the mobile broadband market was a turning point for India's digital economy.'
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.
Here are the few candidates who are in contention for the readers' choice for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year' in 2016.
India has the third highest number of billionaires in the world after the US and China, according to a new list by the prestigious Forbes magazine, which said Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani reclaimed his spot as Asia's richest person, dethroning Chinese business tycoon Jack Ma who was the richest person in the region a year ago.
All for a good cause, the ice bucket challenge has become an internet sensation and raised over $23 million.
When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asked Modi to tell some experiences from his life about his mother, the latter broke down.
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