Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune took a more than $15 billion (roughly Rs. 1.03 lakh crores) hit on Thursday, as the social media company suffered the biggest one-day wipeout in US stock market history a day after executives forecast years of lower profit margins. At least 16 brokerages cut their price targets on Facebook after Chief Financial Officer David Wehner startled an otherwise routine call with analysts by saying […]

acebook dropped a bomb on Monday. It confirmed that its Facebook and Messenger apps collect details on the calls a user makes and SMS that are sent through a phone. Although, the company says that it does so after seeking explicit confirmation for it from users. Permission or no permission, it is important to understand for users what this means: It means when allowed, Facebook collects details of every call […]

Facebook owes Indian-origin engineer Vastal Mehta a lot for its success in generating billions of dollars in ad revenues every year as he steers the team that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on the platform. When he started out on this in 2010, Mehta was the lone engineer in the team and now serves as Facebook`s Director of Solutions Engineering […]

Mark Zuckerberg finally has his Harvard degree. The Facebook CEO and famous college dropout left the Ivy League university 12 years ago to found the social network, but he returned Thursday to pick up a honorary doctor of laws degree and drop some wisdom on the class of 2017. In prepared remarks provided to The Washington Post ahead of the speech, Zuckerberg called on his alma mater’s newest graduates to […]

Mark Zuckerberg would like you to know he is not a shape-shifting lizard person bent on world domination. The billionaire technologist hosted his first Q&A townhall using Facebook’s live video streaming program, to field questions from the giant social media network he built. Jerry Seinfeld blew in for a brief cameo and talked about breakfast foods. Amid queries about Facebook’s artificial intelligence and Zuckerberg’s entrepreneurship, someone wanted to know if […]

After chatting with ISS astronauts, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will yet again use Facebook Live on June 14th to hold his first Q&A session. The young entrepreneur who found two of his social media accounts hacked recently, made the announcement in a post on his Facebook profile. Zuckerberg said the Q&A session powered by Facebook Live would be different from the Townhall Q&As he has held in the past, saying […]

CPI(ML) politburo member Kavita Krishnan and her mother Lakshmi ignited a debate on social media and teamed up to tackle a Facebook troll over women’s rights and consensual sex. The ‘Spoilt Modern Indian Woman’ — a feminist initiative aimed at breaking gender stereotypes — shared a quote by Kavita Krishnan on its Facebook page and initiated a discussion on what constitutes ‘free sex’. While the underlying message was against misogyny, […]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg held a townhall session on Wednesday at IIT-Delhi. Here are the highlights of Zuckerberg’s townhall There was not one moment when I had a revelation that Facebook would be this big. In terms of regulation, in India and around the world, people are trying to figure out what net neutrality regulations should be. Net neutrality is an important principle. It’s important to have regulations which prevent […]

Los Angeles: Courtesy an old family picture posted on Facebook, an emotional mother reunited with her son in the United States after 15 years, when the child was kidnapped by his father. Hope Holland had not seen her son Jonathan since he was a three-year-old. His father had kidnapped him and fled across the border to Mexico in 2000. Hope and her now 18-year-old son are flying back to the […]

The Supreme Court today struck down Section 66A of the Information Technology Act holding it violative of Article 19(1)a of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech.   “Section 66A of the IT Act is struck down in its entirety…,” said the apex court bench of Justice J Chelameswar and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman.   “Our Constitution provides for liberty of thought, expression and belief. In a democracy, these values […]