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- Business
Meta surpasses $2 bn revenue mark in India
New Delhi: Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, surpassed $2 billion in revenue in India in FY22, which has become a strategic market for the US company. The social network…
- India
We are not prepared to play this game any further: The Wire
Online news publication The Wire released a statement on Monday putting a full stop to the ongoing exchange of words with the social media giant Meta (formerly known as Facebook) over one…
- Technology
Instagram video shared by The Wire set up to manufacture evidence: Meta
San Francisco: Meta said on Sunday that the video shared by The Wire, which purportedly shows an internal Instagram system, appears to have been “set up specifically in order to manufacture evidence…
- India
Gmail, Twitter accounts of The Wire’s employee hacked after Meta expose
Siddharth Varadarajan, founding editor of online news publication The Wire, tweeted on Sunday that one of his employee’s Gmail and Twitter accounts has been hacked. The employee was involved in the research…
- India
Meta vs The Wire: Publication defends Instagram expose on BJP
The tussle between social media giant Meta (Facebook) and online Indian news publication The Wire heightened as the latter defended its article that questioned Metas’s secret XCheck programme that was published last…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Meta holds ‘Creator Day’, launches AR program for creators
Hyderabad: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Saturday organized its first ‘Creator Day’ in Hyderabad. The event was an opportunity to launch a unique program for creators, where they will work with Meta to…
- Technology
Meta to shut ‘Instant Articles’ format on FB in early 2023
San Francisco: Meta will end support for its ‘Instant Articles’ format on the Facebook platform next year, as the company moves away from its news-related products and focus on TikTok-like offerings. According…
- India
SC dismisses pleas challenging CCI probe into WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the pleas by Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of…
- India
Meta takes on The Wire again, rejects false allegations in its reports
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has taken on The Wire publication again, saying that while it is legitimate for them to be held accountable for their content decisions, “the allegations made by…
- Technology
WhatsApp now a spam factory, 1 in 2 Indian swamped with promotional messages
New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has become a spam factory as more than one in two Indians now say that they are facing four or more spam messages each day, a report showed…
- Business
Microsoft, Meta partner to deliver immersive experiences in VR
New Delhi: Microsoft and Meta have partnered to deliver immersive experiences in VR. This collaboration will bring Teams and Microsoft’s other productive tools to VR headset, and Meta gets a partner in…
- Technology
Zuckerberg unveils new VR headset Meta Quest Pro for $1,500
New Delhi: Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in the presence of Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, has unveiled a new VR headset Meta Quest Pro that is packed with features…
- Technology
Meta slams The Wire publication for publishing ‘fabricated’ stories
New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen on Tuesday slammed The Wire for publishing two stories, which, according to Rosen, were “outlandish and riddled with falsities”. Rosen, in…
- World
Russia: Meta added to list of ‘terrorist and extremist’ organisations
Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, on Tuesday, flagged and added the U.S. tech giant Meta Platforms Inc. (META.O) as “terrorists and extremists”, the Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday. An appeal by…
- India
Instagram gives BJP’s Amit Malviya special privilege: Report
Recently a video went viral that showed Prabhakar Maurya, an Uttar Pradesh resident, worshipping state chief minister Yogi Adityanath. The video shows the CM holding divine objects such as a bow and…
