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- 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…
- World
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…
- Technology
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…
- India
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…
- Technology
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…
- Technology
‘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…
- India
Govt to set up panels to hear appeals against social media platforms
New Delhi: Grievance redressal panels would soon be set up by government to hear users’ appeals against content moderation decisions taken by social media entities like Meta and Twitter. In a gazette…
- India
‘Left with no other option’, Amit Malviya on his decision to sue ‘The Wire’
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell head Amit Malviya who had said that he will file a case against news and opinion website ‘The Wire’ claiming that the media outlet…
- India
Subjected to ‘deception’ by staff member on Meta investigation team: The Wire
New Delhi: The Wire publication which earlier retracted stories it published against Metas content moderation policies, has further said that it was subjected to “deception” by one of the members of its…
- India
BJP’s Amit Malviya to file criminal, civil proceedings against The Wire
New Delhi: BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya on Thursday said he will file criminal and civil proceedings against ‘The Wire’, as he accused the news portal of using “forged documents with…
- Technology
Meta to release consumer-grade VR headset next year
San Francisco: Meta has announced plans to launch another consumer-grade virtual reality headset next year. At the company’s earnings call late on Wednesday, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the…
- Technology
Meta logs another revenue decline amid concerns over metaverse plans
San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has posted another quarterly revenue decline as investors begin to lose faith in its loss-making, billion-dollars metaverse dream. In the third quarter (Q3), Meta’s revenue declined 4…
- Technology
Turkey fines Meta $18.63 mn for violating competition law
Ankara: Turkey’s Competition Authority announced on Wednesday that it has fined Meta Platforms Inc. 346.72 million liras ($18.63 million) for violating competition law. The company merged the data collected from its three…
