Tech

Google, Facebook to set aside initial iOS fears with big revenue jump

Editorial Bureau July 27, 2021

Wall Street expects Alphabet Inc and Facebook Inc are likely to report a surge in digital ad sales this week after smaller rivals declared soaring demand, boosting expectations that the impact of Apple Inc’s privacy changes has not yet been witnessed. Together, Google and Facebook

Tech

Facebook, tech giants to eye attacker manifestos, extremist militias in database

Editorial Bureau July 26, 2021

A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest US tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told a prominent news organisation. Until now, the Global Internet […]

Tech

White House casts YouTube, Facebook as ‘Judge, Jury & Executioner’ on vaccine misinformation

Editorial Bureau July 23, 2021

 Edit with ElementorSavingPreviewPublish34/100Add title WASHINGTON (US) – The White House has YouTube, not just Facebook, on its list of social media platforms officials say played a key role in an alarming spread of misinformation about COVID vaccines and are not doing enough to stop it, sources familiar with the administration’s thinking said. The

Tech

Facebook and Instagram will make investment of over $1 billion in content creators

Editorial Bureau July 14, 2021

Facebook Inc will spend $1 billion on social media creators through the end of 2022 in a fight for top talent announced in a week when TikTok became the first rival mobile app to hit 3 billion global downloads. Facebook’s investments will include bonus programs to pay creators who hit certain milestones on its apps, […]

Tech

Facebook gears up to finance regional Australia newspaper fund

Editorial Bureau July 2, 2021

SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) – Facebook Inc will provide money for an “innovation fund” for 170 regional Australian newspapers as part of a planned licensing deal, the parties said on Friday, calling the move a show of co-operation between the social media giant and local publishers. The move brings a grassroots element to a string of deals […]

Tech

Facebook’s ‘Neighborhoods’ to garner attention of crowded niche market

Editorial Bureau June 18, 2021

When Facebook began testing its new “Neighborhoods” feature in Canada last October amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It described the same as a devoted place for people to connect with their local communities. Here, in a corner of the world’s largest social network, people met neighbours, shared banana bread ingredients, helped locate missing cats and swapped

Tech

Facebook, big tech hit by EU in national data watchdogs ruling

Editorial Bureau June 15, 2021

LUXEMBOURG CITY (LUXEMBOURG) -Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants could are likely to face more probe and sanctions in the European Union after the bloc’s top court supported national privacy watchdogs to pursue them, even when they are not their lead regulators. Consumer lobbying group BEUC welcomed Tuesday’s ruling by the EU Court of Justice […]

World

Facebook: permanent remote working move may slow down Job growth in Ireland

Editorial Bureau June 11, 2021

DUBLIN (IRELAND) – Facebook’s company-wide policy of allowing permanent remote work from other countries can have a negative impact on its plans to grow staff numbers in its European headquarters in Ireland. Ireland’s economy is hugely reliant on multinational firms that employ around one in eight Irish workers and any move to facilitate remote working

Tech

Facebook data transfer ruling from Irish court likely on Friday

Editorial Bureau May 14, 2021

DUBLIN (IRELAND) – Ireland’s High Court was likely to decide on Friday whether the data regulator should go ahead with a provisional order to stop Facebook user data transfers to the United States from the European Union. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the EU’s lead regulator for Facebook, issued the order last August after Europe’s

Business

Fake Gucci products sold on, Facebook, companies file joint lawsuit against alleged individual

Editorial Bureau April 27, 2021

MILAN (ITALY): An individual who allegedly used social media platforms to sell fake Gucci products is being slapped with a lawsuit in California by Gucci and Facebook, the two companies said on Tuesday. The initiative, a first of its kind for both Gucci and Facebook, is the latest example of an Internet giant joining forces […]