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 […]

Even though it is not uncommon to read false stories of peoples’ deaths on Facebook; in a weird turn of events, Facebook itself has started declaring people dead – when in fact they are not. A lot of Facebook users were greeted with a eulogy message when visiting the profiles of friends and family, while some found their own accounts memorialised. Even Mark Zuckerberg was declared dead on his Facebook […]

This morning, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India effectively banned Facebook’s Free Basics program from the country, ruling that the system and others like it violate the principles of net neutrality. It’s a big setback for Facebook’s Internet.org program, which looks to provide basic connectivity to poor nations — but in a post today, Mark Zuckerberg said the ruling would not push Internet.org out of India entirely. “Our mission is […]

Mark Zuckerberg is feeling the force of critics who believe his effort to provide Indians with free access to a limited number of internet services hurts India’s democracy and violates net neutrality. In an unusually pugnacious appeal in the mass-circulation Times of India, the Facebook founder forcefully defended introducing his Free Basics service, “a set of basic internet services for education, healthcare, jobs and communication that people can use without […]

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 […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg grabbed all the headlines. During the meeting, Mark revealed that when his company was going through a rough patch, Steve Jobs advised him to visit a temple in India. According to reports the Apple co-founder experienced life-changing spiritual reflection there. Zuckerberg told Modi about a little-known incident several years ago when, he said, Facebook “wasn’t doing so well”. The […]

Washington: Before Narendra Modi’s visit to the Facebook headquarters, activists from a group which identified themselves as Alliance for Justice and Accountability (AJA), set up a website called www.zuckwashyourhands.com . The website exhorted people to send Mark Zuckerberg bottles of hand sanitiser Purell, suggesting that the PM Modi’s hands are still tainted from the blood of the Muslims who died in the 2002 riots. If Zuckerberg shakes hands with Modi, […]

Ever wondered what’s inside the Facebook headquarters at Menlo Park, California or what Mark Zuckerberg’s office space looks like? Wonder no more, the Facebook CEO has just granted you full access to his kingdom. In the company’s first ‘live’ video, Mark Zuckerberg personally provides a tour of the tech giant’s new headquarters. Essentially, the Facebook workspace is sprawled across a massive open area and has a democratic seating plan with […]

Mark Zuckerberg has made his next book club pick, a release he considers especially timely after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris. The Facebook CEO announced Saturday he would take on Steven Pinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” a widely discussed and occasionally criticized 2011 book that contends violence has decreased in modern times and the world has become more humane. Zuckerberg posted the news on his Facebook page […]

  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 […]