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Health

Social media infected with fake news and videos of Wuhan coronavirus

Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are filled with a massive amount of fake news and videos related to the Wuhan's Coronavirus

Jan 29, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus Fake news

Technology

Coronavirus outbreak: Facebook bans its employees from going to China

Facebook has asked employees to suspend non-essential travel to mainland China to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

Jan 28, 2020

By Manthan C.

Coronavirus

NBA

Orange Coast baseball coach John Altobelli with wife, daughter perishes in Kobe helicopter crash

Christina Mauser, an assistant coach for one of the Orange County's elementary school basketball team confirmed dead along with Coach Altobelli and his family––NBA in mourning

Jan 27, 2020

By Karan Ashwath

Markets

Wall Street Week Ahead: Hopes are high for tech stock 'Cadillacs'; so are their prices

Wall Street bets that popular US technology and internet stocks can outshine the broader equities market this earnings season

Jan 25, 2020

By Reuters

Netflix

Business

Facebook may be fined another $5.5 million, says Italy's watchdog

In 2018, Facebook was fined 5 million euros by Italy's watchdog and was asked to publish an amending statement on its homepage, which it didn't

Jan 25, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Social media to maneuvre ransomware attacks

Politics

Factbox: Where US presidential candidates stand on breaking up Big Tech

Presidential candidates have differing perspectives on the tightening of regulation and loosening of it on the big tech companies like Facebook and WhatsApp

Jan 24, 2020

By Reuters

Social Media

Facebook is now testing dark mode on more phones; Facebook app dark mode update imminent

Facebook Inc. has already rolled out dark themes for its Messenger app and Instagram, and now it looks like its flagship app will be in for a dark mode treatment very soon

Jan 23, 2020

By Gani Mohamed Waseem

Tech & Trend

WhatsApp Messenger to start charging users subscription fee this year?

Facebook recently decided to scrap its plans to run ads on WhatsApp but does it have plans to start charging users a subscription fee instead?

Jan 23, 2020

By Manthan C.

Business

Vodafone quits Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project

In spite of reputed firms pulling out, Facebook and 20 partner organisations formally joined the digital currency Libra project in Geneva in October

Jan 22, 2020

By IANS

Business

Facebook to add 1,000 jobs to its workforce in UK post Brexit

A large number of employees will be hired in Facebook's Community Integrity team, who will be specifically assigned to take down harmful content

Jan 22, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Mark zuckerberg

Technology

'Mr. Shithole': Facebook apologizes for Chinese premier's name gaffe

Social networking website Facebook committed a major gaffe, when it translated Chinese President Xi Jinping's name, from Burmese to English, as 'Mr Shithole'

Jan 19, 2020

By Shubhangi Shah

Technology

Instagram takes away IGTV button; why after two days of instruction video on how to upload them?

Is the social media giant trying to give IGTV a breathing space of its own by removing it from the main app?

Jan 19, 2020

By Parvathy Rajagopal

Thailand: Internet users who even view 'illegal content' to face legal action

Society

Facebook video helps in reuniting Bangladeshi man with family after 48 years

Habibur Rahman started his business after the Liberation War in Bangladesh, at the age of 30 he went for a business trip and never returned

Jan 19, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

Technology

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower releases new Facebook documents

Kaiser, a former employee of the now-defunct British data analytics and consulting company Cambridge Analytica, revealed the documents at the WorldWebForum conference in Zurich

Jan 18, 2020

By IANS

Technology

WhatsApp cancels plans to run ads after user outrage?

According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook has dropped the idea of introducing ads on its popular messaging platform, WhatsApp, for the time being.

Jan 18, 2020

By Manthan C.

Business

Facebook sued by 4 US tech companies for alleged anticompetitive practices

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit have alleged Facebook of inappropriately revoking developer access to its platform in order to harm the companies

Jan 18, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Mark zuckerberg

Environment

Facebook steps up Australia bushfires relief efforts

Currently, Facebook Disaster Maps in Australia are being used by a range of national and international relief, response, and academic organizations

Jan 16, 2020

By IANS

Business

LinkedIn joins other tech giants; to open new campus and expand workforce in Dublin

Dublin is fast becoming Europe's new technology hub as foreign businesses have to pay corporate tax as low as 12.5% in Ireland

Jan 11, 2020

By R. Ghosh

Technology

Facebook changes its ad-policies but continues to allow lies to spread

With the oncoming elections of 2020 Facebook has vowed to stop manipulative measures by politicians through the social media site

Jan 10, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

Fake news

Business

Facebook will give users options to see what they see but will still allow political ads

Facebook will roll out new tools by early summer wherein users will be allowed to turn off certain political ad-targeting tools

Jan 10, 2020

By R. Ghosh

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