A 31-year-old man was hacked to death by a four member gang on Thursday night near Coimbatore. H Farook, who hails from Bilal Estate in South Ukkadam, was a member of an atheist organisation, Dravidar Viduthalai Kazhagam (DVK). According to a Times of India report, Ansath, a 30-year-old Muslim realtor,[Read More…]
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Facebook Stories rolled out for more regions globally
Facebook has reportedly started rolling out Stories, a feature similar to Instagram Stories, for its users in Chile, Greece and Vietnam. Facebook has confirmed the availability of the new feature for its app to TechCrunch. Of course, Facebook Stories is a rip-off of Snapchat Stories, one that features photos that[Read More…]
Court orders may condemn Facebook’s VR ambitions
India reacts as Facebook plans to put ads in the middle of its Live videos
The social media giant Facebook will allow brands to advertise on their Live video section. Live experience may now come with a brief message from a sponsor. As reports say, the ads, which can last up to 20 seconds in each break, can start after the first four minutes of[Read More…]
Facebook Live to be interrupted by ad videos soon
Social media giant Facebook plans to earn money from all the live videos it allows to share via its network. Facebook Live videos are soon to have interruptions by 20-second ads. According to a report on Thursday, Facebook would soon start putting ads in the middle of publishers’ videos, much like TV commercials or YouTube[Read More…]
PM Modi becomes the most followed world leader on Facebook
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now officially become the most followed leader on Facebook. According to the report released by Burson-Marsteller, with over 40 million people following his personal account, Modi is winning the world over, virtually. The third spot belongs to the PMO account on Facebook, which had over 13 million followers.[Read More…]
Mark Zuckerberg talks about Modi in a Facebook post
The man behind Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg puts forth Facebook’s vision for the coming years and notably mentions PM Modi in his post. Talking about people-government relationship beyond vote counts, Zuckerberg said, “Beyond voting, the greatest opportunity is helping people stay engaged with the issues that matter to them every day,[Read More…]
Facebook criticized for being a social evil
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Zuckerberg files law suits against native Hawaiians, seeking privacy at his Hawaii estate
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has filed a series of lawsuits against Hawaiian families aimed at forcing them to sell their lands so the world’s sixth richest person and his family can have more privacy in their estate. According to The Honululu Star Advertiser, a dozen small parcels within Zuckerberg’s Kauai[Read More…]
Act of honesty! Cop returns wallet with Rs 50,000 safely to the owner
What happens when you lose your wallet? This question primarily has one answer. You tend to forget about it and move on dejected. However, when businessman Jagpreet Singh lost his wallet, he never imagined he would get it back. But, to his amazement, a traffic policeman’s act of honesty helped[Read More…]
Facebook adds option to report fake news
Complaints about fake news have been dominating in the cyber world since Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the US presidential elections. Many researchers, politicians and activists have attributed Hillary’s failure to the fake news article that flooded in social media websites, especially Facebook. Finally, Facebook had decided to[Read More…]
Twitter CEO briefly suspended from his network
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey was suspended from Twitter for a short time on Wednesday. Jack, who operates under the twitter handle @jack, was suspended at around 7:30 am IST. Twitter founder @jack has had his account suspended. — Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 23, 2016 For about 15 minutes,[Read More…]
Stop relying on Facebook for news: Whistleblower Edward Snowden
In the wake of unexpected results in the US elections, many people were criticizing Facebook for not censoring fake news articles that could have impacted the popular votes. But, the former NSA employee-turned whistle blower Edward Snowden said fake news site wasn’t the real issue. Speaking at Fusion’s Real Future[Read More…]
This Ola driver’s reply is going viral for the right reasons
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a ban on ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes on November 8. Words of praise for PM Modi’s move as well as stories about people scrambling to deposit or exchange their old currency notes are common at the moment. However, it’s these poignant words by a cab[Read More…]
Zuckerberg denies Facebook role in US elections
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday denied the idea that fake news on the social website has influenced the US presidential elections. Zuckerberg spoke at Technonomy conference in an interaction with David Kirkpatrick, who asked about Facebook’s role in the recently concluded US Presidential elections. Facebook has been under scathing[Read More…]
Social media users live longer, a study finds
A paper published in the official US Scientific Journal, PNAS, on Monday found out that time spent on social media could be associated with a longer life. The research finds that people with more friends online are less likely to die than their disconnected counterparts. This paper contradicts the assertion[Read More…]
Meerut: School principal arrested for controversial FB post on PM
A private school principal has been arrested on Thursday for allegedly posting controversial content on Facebook on the Prime Minister and RSS leaders on Dussehra. Mudassir Rana, who heads a private school in Saradhna area, has been charged under Section 153-A of IPC (promoting disharmony) and relevant sections of IT[Read More…]
Markandey Katju says he had fallen in love with Jayalalithaa and still finds her attractive
Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju who is very active on social media and usually finds himself in controversy for his outspoken behaviour, this time has confessed his love for none other than Jayalalithaa. In his recent Facebook post, Katju confessed that he had fallen in love with Jayalalithaa when[Read More…]
Fawad Khan finally opens up about why he left India
After various rumours and ‘reports’ of statements made by actor Fawad Khan on Pakistani actors being banned by Bollywood, the Kapoor & sons star has finally spoken up on his official Facebook account. Fawad had flown back to Lahore few days back, as his wife Sadaf was expecting the couple’s[Read More…]
With an eye on emerging markets, Facebook launches Messenger Lite
In a bid to tap into emerging markets, Facebook announced the ‘Lite’ version of its Android Messenger app. The version is designed to work with slower internet speeds and basic Android smartphones in emerging markets, the social networking giant announced on Monday. Facebook Messenger Lite will initially launch in Kenya,[Read More…]
Indore teen fatally stabbed by Facebook friend, who pretended to be a woman
Indore resident, Amit Yadav (24) made a fake Facebook account of a woman by the name of Atharva and befriended Priya Rawat (17). When Yadav revealed his true identity to Priya, she broke all ties with him. The enraged techie then reached Priya’s flat on Tuesday and attacked the girl[Read More…]
Facebook faces legal challenge over WhatsApp privacy policy
A public-interest litigation has been filed in the Delhi high court by two Indian students asking for a rollback of recent policy updates by the Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp. Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi asked the court to order the government to frame guidelines for messaging apps so that user[Read More…]