Facebook-owned WhatsApp is all set to launch its peer-to-peer, UPI-based Pay service for over 300 million users -- especially the small and medium businesses (SMBs) -- in India sometimes later this year, its Global Head Will Cathcart announced here on Thursday.
US lawmakers are officially asking social networking site, Facebook to cease all development of its Libra cryptocurrency.
The security chief, Liam Booth, is a former Secret Service officer, according to his LinkedIn profile, and has been with the family's charitable organization, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, since 2017.
At a Facebook Marketing Summit in the Netherlands, Facebook revealed a 2020 launch date for WhatsApp Status ads.
"People are concerned about election security, content, privacy and data portability," Sandberg added.
Facebook's social network has more than 2 billion users. It also owns WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, each used by more than 1 billion people. Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.
In a filing with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, Facebook said it spent $2.6 million on private plane costs -- up from $1.5 million a year before, CNET reported.
Facebook said that the data encryption would be of bigger concern for the company than the commercial benefits of the chat integration between the apps.
An unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will meet in London next week to put questions to Facebook about the online fake news crisis.
Mark Zuckerberg, during a press call, had said the company's engineering team, on September 25, found an attack affecting up to 50 million accounts on Facebook.
Brian Acton and Jan Koum started WhatsApp that was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion. Brian Acton quit Facebook a year ago, followed with Jan Koum in April.
After PM Imran Khan called on overseas Pakistanis to contribute for a fund set up to build Diamer-Bhasha dam, an imposter, claiming to be Mark Zuckerberg, has pledged, on twitter, to contribute $5 million for the dam fund.
In a post, Zuckerberg said that Facebook started on the platform sanitising project in 2017 and "even this work will extend through 2019, I do expect us to end this year on a significantly better trajectory than when we entered it".
In his opinion piece for Washington Post, Zuckerberg said firms like his Facebook and others are facing "sophisticated, well-funded adversaries who are getting smarter over time."
"Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care about publishers but is giving me a lot of leeway and concessions to make these changes" says Facebook's Head of News Partnerships Campbell Brown. He reportedly said that publishers who choose not to work with Facebook will wind up in a dying business.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: "Over the next 18 months, there are important elections beyond the US in Brazil, India, and the EU, and these will all be real tests for Facebook," Zuckerberg said during a recent investor call.
Facebook, however, is not alone in aiming to increase Internet accessibility through satellites in low Earth orbit. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Softbank-backed OneWeb are two other prominent names who have similar ambitions.
Mark Zuckerberg is facing backlash again on social media for refusing to ban Holocaust deniers on his platform.
Investors are also happy at the news that Facebook has grabbed its biggest sports streaming deal yet with the Premier League.
In a 229-page document addressed to US Congress in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal, Facebook revealed that it had investigated building the technology, Fortune reported on Wednesday.
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