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Irish regulator fines Meta 265 million euros over data breach
London: Ireland’s data regulator on Monday slapped Facebook owner Meta with a 265-million-euro (USD 275 million) fine after details of more than half a billion users were leaked on a hacking website.…
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From Meta to Zomato, how India’s new online review rules will impact industry
New Delhi: With the new Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) guidelines coming into force to guard customers from fake online reviews of products, tech giants like Meta and Google, along with homegrown…
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Google may soon opt for layoffs: Report
New Delhi: Amidst layoffs and a slowing down of the hiring process being seen by large companies as an avenue to strengthen their revenues, global tech major Google has introduced a new…
- Technology
Received 55,497 requests for user data from Indian government: Meta
New Delhi: India with 55,497 requests was once again second only to the US in terms of asking Meta to provide user data in the first half of this year, and the…
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Meta rolls out new privacy updates for teens on Instagram, Facebook
New Delhi: Meta has rolled out new privacy updates for teenagers on Instagram and Facebook, to protect them from online harm. Starting now, anyone who joins Facebook under the age of 16,…
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Meta fires staff for hijacking Facebook, Insta accounts: Report
San Francisco: 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…
- Technology
Meta appoints Sandhya Devanathan as head for India business
New Delhi: 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…
- Technology
Meta plans to shut down Portal, smartwatches projects
San Francisco: Meta has planned to shut down its video calling smart display ‘Portal’ and its two unreleased smartwatches projects, as the company eliminated 11,000 jobs. The Meta executives announced at an…
- India
IITian moves to Canada for Meta job, gets fired after two days
Soon after social media giant Meta chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg announced to lay of 11,000 jobs, an Indian man who had moved to Canada after securing a job at the…
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After Twitter, Meta to fire 11,000 employees
Social media giant Meta (previously known as Facebook) announced it will fire around 11,000 employees in a bid to reduce costs following a drop in revenue. The job cuts come just a…
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Instagram to introduce ‘Schedule Posts’ and new web design
San Francisco: Meta-owned Instagram has announced that it will roll out a new ‘Schedule Posts’ feature and a new website design for better user experience. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, made the…
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Digipub condemns police searches at ‘The Wire’
New Delhi: An association of digital media organisations condemned on Tuesday the searches carried out by the Delhi Police at the offices of news portal “The Wire” and the houses of its…
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Meta purges 33.7 mn pieces of bad content in India in September
New Delhi: As the Centre notified amendments in new IT Rules, 2021 to put more obligations on social media platforms, Meta has said that it took down over 30.7 million pieces of…
- India
Homes of The Wire’s editors raided following BJP’s Amit Malviya’s complaint
The homes of editors of news website ‘The Wire’ were searched by the Delhi Police on Monday based on a complaint by BJP’s Amit Malviya. Electronic devices of Siddharth Varadarajan and MK…
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‘Configuration change’ behind global Instagram outage: Meta
San Francisco: Meta has announced that ‘Configuration change’ was the reason behind the global Instagram outage. The company said that it has fixed the issue that briefly made Instagram and Facebook inaccessible…
