The big five technology firms have spent billions buying rivals in recent years ON JULY 16th America’s House Judiciary Committee will summon representatives from four of the five big tech firms for a hearing entitled “Online Platforms and Market Power: Part 2”. The question at hand is whether the big …
Facebook’s digital currency could become one of the world’s biggest financial entities ANYONE WHO has watched the price of bitcoin bucking and rearing in recent years—or seen Facebook attacked for its handling of private data—might have been surprised to learn that the social-media giant is releasing its own digital currency. …
Source: Facebook Expels
Source: Facebook Expels
April 29 (UPI) — As many as 4.9 billion Facebook accounts could belong to dead users by 2100, Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute said in a report on Monday. A statistical analysis entitled “Are the dead taking over Facebook? A Big Data approach to the future” predicts that at least 1.4 billion …
Add a criminal investigation to the list of technical difficulties and PR disasters. Exactly when did Facebook become the Job of internet companies? Just like the beleaguered biblical character who endured woe after woe at God’s behest, this social media giant finds itself repeatedly hit by bad news. The difference is that …
GENEVA (AP) — A Geneva art museum says Facebook prohibited it from promoting an upcoming exhibit with images of two statues — a half-naked Venus and a nude, kneeling man. The Museum of Art and History took to Twitter to say it had wanted to post pictures of the statues …
The advertisements all seemed innocuous at a glance. A ribald sendup of fairy tales hosted by a comedian in Los Angeles. A Spanish-language social group for Latino men, sponsored by a community center in Las Vegas. And a list of senior-friendly housing options distributed by a nonprofit group in Texas. …
Facebook has chosen Singapore for the location of its new data centre, which is expected to open in 2022. The new facility will cost more than $1bn (£773m) and be located in the west of the country. It has been designed as an 11-floor structure, in an attempt to conserve …
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members will see most often, saying on Thursday that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands. …
When lawyers from Google, Facebook and Twitter gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon for oversight hearings, most of the questions were about the Russian use of misinformation to influence the 2016 presidential elections in the United States. In Myanmar, human rights groups say false information and hate speech spread on Facebook …
