Tag: Facebook

Facebook to let you play games during video calls on Messenger

Meta's cloud gaming service Facebook Gaming has announced that users can now play their favourite games during video calls on Messenger.

April 6, 2023

Facebook parent Meta plans new layoffs: Report

The first job losses are expected to be announced next week, with non-engineering roles expected to be hit hard.

March 11, 2023

Meta fires staff for hijacking Facebook, Insta accounts: Report

Meta has reportedly fired or disciplined over two dozen employees for hijacking Facebook and Instagram accounts over the past year. According to The Wall Street Journal, some offenders used Meta's account recovery software, "Oops," and even took thousands of dollars in bribes from those seeking access.

November 18, 2022

Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan as head for India biz

Meta (formerly Facebook) on Thursday announced the appointment of Sandhya Devanathan as the Vice President of Meta India, as several key executives leave the company in recent days. She will start her new role on January 1, 2023, and will report to Dan Neary, Vice President, Meta APAC.

November 17, 2022

Facebook parent Meta prepares for large-scale layoffs this week

The layoffs are expected to affect many thousands of employees and an announcement is planned to come as soon as Wednesday, according to the people familiar with the matter.

November 7, 2022

Meta’s corporate development head to step down after 12 years

Meta's top executive Amin Zoufonoun, who led Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, has confirmed that he is leaving the tech giant after 12 years.

October 20, 2022

12K Facebook employees may lose jobs amid ‘quiet layoffs’: Report

Meta is reportedly conducting 'quiet layoffs' at Facebook that may lead to thousands of job cuts -- at least 12,000 or about 15 per cent of its workforce.

October 6, 2022

No hirings, more layoffs soon: Mark Zuckerberg to employees

Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that the social network is freezing hiring across the board, warning that more layoffs are in the pipeline.

September 30, 2022

Delhi HC dismisses plea of Facebook India challenging CCI’s probe order

The Delhi High Court earlier had refused to stay CCI investigation into WhatsApp's privacy policy and Meta.

September 29, 2022

EDII to join corporates to create 10,000 women-led green businesses

The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), a centre of excellence recognised by the government, announced that it would join hands with certain corporates to create 10,000 women-led green businesses across 100 districts in the country in 1,000 days.

September 3, 2022

UP man posts wife’s pics on Facebook to increase followers

Police in Jasrana of Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district has also registered a case against the man under Section 67 of the IT Act.

September 2, 2022

Sharing articles on social media even without reading make us think we’re now experts: Research

A new research has revealed that sharing articles on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter makes us believe that we are experts on a particular topic even if we have not read them.

August 31, 2022

WhatsApp sharing sensitive data with Facebook companies envisaged in its policy: Delhi HC

The bench of Justice Satish Chander Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad in its detail judgement said that "the Court finds merit in the submission of the ASGs appeared for CCI that one of the key issues with the 2021 Policy is its propensity to share the data.

August 26, 2022

Contractual workers protest at Meta HQ against layoffs

“Many teams are going to shrink so we can shift energy to other areas inside the company", said Zuckerberg.

August 24, 2022

Google tracks most private data of its users among all the 5 Big Tech firms: Report

Facebook takes most of the information entered by the user. Apple is in a league above Amazon in protecting user privacy. It is the most privacy-conscious firm out there. Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users' accounts.

August 22, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg releases his new digital avatar after facing memes

Zuckerberg said on Friday that major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics are coming soon.

August 20, 2022

Apple, Meta once planned to build business venture together: Report

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Facebook examined "revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook".

August 13, 2022