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Key Facebook force Sheryl Sandberg steps down
AFP, Published on 02/06/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Meta's second most powerful executive Sheryl Sandberg made the shock announcement Wednesday she will leave after a 14-year tenure that included helping steer scandal-prone Facebook to advertising dominance.
TikTok lets creators charge monthly subscriptions
AFP, Published on 24/05/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO - TikTok on Monday said it will start letting some popular accounts at the video-snippet streaming star charge subscriptions for live streams.
Facebook changing with times a decade after stock debut
AFP, Published on 16/05/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell remotely to cheers 10 years ago as the beloved social network made its stock market debut, culminating an all-night hackathon that included street hockey, costumes and music.
Facebook: from Harvard dorm to global phenomenon
AFP, Published on 16/05/2022
» WASHINGTON: Key chapters in the history of Facebook, the world's biggest social media application, which marks the tenth anniversary Wednesday of its stock market debut.
Facebook parent Meta calms investors with strong profit
AFP, Published on 28/04/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook parent Meta on Wednesday reported better profit than expected in the recently ended quarter, calming investors worried about the toll of competition from TikTok and eased pandemic restrictions.
'TikTok is having a bad war,' say disinformation experts
AFP, Published on 06/04/2022
» PARIS: The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.
Hackers got user data from Meta with forged request
AFP, Published on 31/03/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook owner Meta gave user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source said Wednesday, highlighting the risks of a measure used in urgent cases.
Telegram thrives in Ukraine disinformation battle
AFP, Published on 09/03/2022
» Two days after Russia invaded Ukraine, an account on the Telegram messaging platform posing as President Volodymyr Zelensky urged his armed forces to surrender.
Collective of US states investigate TikTok's impact on children
AFP, Published on 03/03/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: A consortium of US states announced on Wednesday a joint investigation into TikTok's possible harms to young users of the platform, which has boomed in popularity especially among children.
Google to overhaul ad tracking system on Android devices
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» WASHINGTON - Google announced plans Wednesday to limit ad tracking on its Android operating system running on billions of devices, a sensitive privacy issue that rival Apple has already moved to address on its iPhones.