WhatsApp competes with messaging apps like LINE, Viber and Hike in India.
Facebook is on road to help users solve "bigger" and "complex" problems, founder and CEO of the social networking giant Mark Zuckerberg said.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon tops the list for the second consecutive year with networth of $147 billion.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month, in 14 images.
Home ministry sources say there are fears that international lobbies might have been involved in spying, to create a narrative around Indian governance as well as the economy.
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 notice came after reports that political parties had used the data analytics firm during elections.
Mark Zuckerberg said the feature will be coming soon.
12 student protestors were detained.
Fantastic Four is a disappointing reboot of a disappointing superhero franchise.
Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation, followed by CEO of Milwaukee-based maker of water heaters A O Smith Ajita Rajendra on the 34th spot, HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri on the 36th position and Banga on 40th.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, tennis star Sania Mirza and actor Priyanka Chopra are among the probable contenders named by the Time magazine for its annual list of the most influential people in the world.
"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.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
The comments drew sharp criticism from netizens with some calling Facebook's Free Basics plan as Internet colonialism.
Facebook said its daily active users were 1.04 billion on an average for December 2015, an increase of 17 per cent year on year.
Internet.org is a Facebook-led initiative
Tim Cook is joining the roster of the very rich donors.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and about 1,000 of his colleagues have donated over $1.5 million to a leading rights group that has pledged to fight President Donald Trump's temporary ban on refugees and immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
In the Forbes rich list Mukesh Ambani is ranked 39th.
Technology purchases in the People's Republic will reach $136 billion this year, four times more than in India.
It's a honour to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley, says Sundar Pichai.
"Indian-Americans are an 'organic bridge' between the world's two largest democracies," he said.
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.
None of the Big Tech companies or tycoons appears to be playing a meaningful role in the testing, spread, cure, or eradication of the virus or even in contact tracing so far, says Prosenjit Datta.
Bill Gates with an estimated wealth of $86 billion topped the list for the fourth year running.
The social media giant had launched a public campaign to defend its platform.
Zuckerberg said the AI burtler would look like Jarvis from Hollywood blockbuster film Iron Man
Software developers who tried on an Apple Watch for the first time on Friday predicted a rush of new apps over the next few months.
Zuckerberg says internet.org can co-exist with net neutrality
Responding to Trump's tweet labelling the leading social network platform "anti-Trump", the Facebook CEO and founder said the social media platform had tried to be neutral in the US elections.
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.
Mateen wrote, "America and Russia stop bombing the Islamic State," and, in his final post, "In the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic State in the USA."
The social media giant promised that news and views will be checked for veracity and pejorative content will be weeded out.
Modi won the online readers' poll conducted by Time magazine for Person of the Year 2016, the second time he emerged winner of the reader's choice poll.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is the federal agency responsible to process the visas, on Monday started accepting applications for H-1B visas for the fiscal year 2019, beginning October 1.
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.
Andreessen made a objectionable tweet about India after Trai ruled against Facebook's free but restricted internet programme
