Agra: Social networking giant Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday visited the Taj Mahal in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city and said: “It is even more stunning than I expected.” “I’m in India for our Townhall Q&A tomorrow (Wednesday), and I decided to visit the Taj Mahal. I’ve always wanted to see this,” Zuckerberg posted on Facebook along with his picture in front of the monument to love. “It is even […]
Applications are invited for the 2016-2017 Facebook Graduate Fellowship Programme. It is designed to encourage and support promising doctoral students who are engaged in innovative and relevant research. Winners of the fellowship are entitled to a two-year fellowship including payment of tuition fees for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 academic years, a $37,000 (more than Rs. 24 lakh) unrestricted grant, opportunities for paid internships, and a visit to Facebook’s headquarters in […]
Showing support for Digital India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his Facebook profile picture to Indian tricolour. Zuckerberg has written in the caption of the photo, “I changed my profile picture to support Digital India, the Indian government’s effort to connect rural communities to the internet and give people access to more services online. Looking forward to discussing this with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Facebook today. Show your support […]
Texas: Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old bright student in Texas, built a digital clock and brought it to his high school. Never did he know that instead of appreciation, he would get arrested. The principal having mistaken the gadget for a fake bomb called the police- a detention some claim was due to his Muslim background. Tech companies are now throwing their support behind him and are flocking to the social […]
Indian army is surely ruling the popularity charts on Facebook! For the second time in as many months, the Indian Army’s Facebook page has topped the People Talking About That (PTAT) ranking for Facebook pages. And with this, it has managed to leave behind a host of foreign government organisations including the CIA, FBI, NASA and even the Pakistani military. “It is big for the army’s social media. Only two […]
This female entrepreneur says that in order to succeed in business, it’s worth questioning conventional wisdom. At Y Combinator’s Female Founders Conference this weekend, Ruchi Sanghvi, former VP of operations at DropBox and Facebook’s earliest female engineer, discussed what it takes to get ahead as a founder. The best way to achieve success, she says, is to set aside your biases and come up with new solutions. “And that’s hard […]
With over 1.3 billion users, world’s largest social networking firm Facebook has enabled global economic impact of $227 billion (roughly Rs. 14,01,725 crores) and 4.5 million jobs around the world in 2014, according to a report by consultancy firm Deloitte. The report titled Facebook’s Global Economic Impact, analyses how Facebook’s marketing, platform and connectivity effects have facilitated growth and jobs around the world. Commissioned by Facebook, the study estimates […]
New Delhi: Facebook has restricted access to nearly 5,000 pieces of information on its website in India in the first six months of 2014, the highest for any country, following requests from government and other agencies to act against hate-content on social media platforms. India is the largest userbase for Facebook outside the US with over 100 million users. Similar steps were taken in Turkey (1,893) and Pakistan (1,773) during […]
Stephen Hawking has joined Facebook, promising to share his work toward discovering “what makes the universe exist” with his followers of his new account. “Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my pursuit,” Hawking writes. “Our connections to one another have grown infinitely and now that I have the chance, I’m eager to share this journey with you.” His page has also posted a […]
— You’ve heard of crowdfunding — raising funds through donations on the internet — well, get ready for “like” funding. An enterprising new startup in Hong Kong has devised a way of harnessing Facebook “likes” as a way of getting valuable donations to worthy causes and, at the same time, boosting the corporate social responsibility profile of the companies that provide the cash. Called Likefunding.me, the small team in Hong […]
