Facebook planning to change its name? Here's how memers reacted
Just after the rumors of Facebook changing its company's name hit the street, social media went crazy and users flooded all social media platforms with quirky memes taking a dig at the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Oct 20, 2021, 19:48 PM IST
Report: Facebook plans rebrand with a new name and look
According to a report by the Verge, Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week to reflect its focus on building the metaverse.
Oct 20, 2021, 13:38 PM IST
Instagram announces new feature to let users co-author same posts
The new Collabs feature will allow two accounts to co-author a post or Reel. The post or Reel will appear jointly to each user's followers and will share the same comment thread, as well as view and like counts.
Oct 20, 2021, 09:04 AM IST
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 in Europe to build 'metaverse'
Facebook also said in July it was creating a product team to work on the metaverse which would be part of Facebook Reality Labs, its augmented reality and virtual reality group.
Oct 18, 2021, 19:00 PM IST
Hate speech has dropped by almost 50% in 9 months, claims Facebook
Facebook said when it began reporting metrics on hate speech, only 23.6 per cent of content it removed was detected proactively by its systems; the majority of what it removed was found by people.
Oct 18, 2021, 10:33 AM IST
Facebook plans to hire 10,000 workers in European Union to build 'metaverse'
In September, Facebook committed USD 50 million towards building the metaverse, where companies like Roblox Corp and "Fortnite" maker Epic Games have an early foothold.
Oct 18, 2021, 07:06 AM IST
Facebook launches its 1st ever event for gamers in India
Spread across two days October 19 - 20, the virtual event will be hosted by comedian Abish Mathews.
Oct 15, 2021, 08:30 AM IST
Facebook, Instagram apologize for second outage in a week
The issue was fixed after almost two hours.
Oct 09, 2021, 06:24 AM IST
Facebook update! Social media giant brings new Page design for Indian users
Facebook has announced the rollout of a new Page design in the country that will make it simpler for public figures.
Oct 08, 2021, 23:12 PM IST
Facebook introduces new Page experience for users in India
The new Page design includes an intuitive layout with a crisper look and feel making it easy to navigate between a personal profile and a public Page.
Oct 08, 2021, 15:02 PM IST
Data of over 1.5 billion Facebook users leaked on dark web
The personal data of over 1.5 billion individuals on a hacker forum has been discovered which includes names, email addresses, localities, genders, phone numbers, and Facebook User ID information.
Oct 08, 2021, 10:57 AM IST
Telegram gains 70 mn new users in one day after FB outage
According to CEO Pavel Durov, Telegram experienced a record increase in user registration and activity amid the massive Facebook outage.
Oct 07, 2021, 09:04 AM IST
Facebook outage: Here’s why FB, WhatsApp, Instagram were down for hours
Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram remained offline for hours due to an error during routine maintenance.
Oct 06, 2021, 18:30 PM IST
'Twitchy, toxic and divisive': Facebook's Instagram problem implodes
Recently leaked internal Facebook documents show that 13 per cent of British users and 6 per cent of American users trace their desire to kill themselves to Instagram.
Oct 06, 2021, 08:53 AM IST
DNA: How did the world spend 6 hours without Facebook-WhatsApp?
According to Indian time, at 9.11 pm on Monday night, the servers of WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook suddenly went down for many users globally. Many people took to Twitter to report the unwanted incident. Once again, such disturbances have brought the world on its feet and made us realize how dependent we are on technology.
Oct 05, 2021, 22:38 PM IST
Why were WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook down for over 6 hours?
Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Oculus VR services— experienced a worldwide outage lasting nearly 6 hours.
Oct 05, 2021, 15:47 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg loses USD 7 billion in hours after WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram suffer global outage
Mark Zuckerberg previously ranked at the third spot on Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. According to Bloomberg, the stocks of Facebook fell by 5% on Monday, adding to a 15 percent decline since mid-September.
Oct 05, 2021, 07:41 AM IST
In pics: Lakhimpur Kheri to see more protests, Facebook-WhatsApp resume services
Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh is likely to remain the political battleground even today. This and more in today's news capsule.
Oct 05, 2021, 07:04 AM IST
Did Facebook choose profits over user safety? Whistleblower ready to make an argument
Frances Haugen will tell the panel that Facebook executives regularly chose profits over user safety.
Oct 05, 2021, 06:31 AM IST
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram down: Sorry for the disruption, says Mark Zuckerberg
Services like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for hours on Tuesday night.
Oct 05, 2021, 06:14 AM IST