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The United Kingdom has laid out a plan for regulating the technology industry more closely in a detailed proposal that it has released today. This is the latest crackdown on Big Tech in Europe. According...

Social media giant Facebook has today said that it is removing or blocking out around one million accounts per day keeping in mind that the first phase of Lok Sabha polls is just days...

This week, Facebook was in news for negative reasons once again when it was discovered that account data and passwords of millions of users of the social media platform had been stored on cloud...

Social media giant Facebook is planning to retire some of its Windows Phone apps by the end of this month. The news has been confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson who said that the social...

It's been more than a year since Facebook announced that it would be featuring less news. And now, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a new idea for publishers: A section on the social media...

Social media giant Facebook has announced a new feature called 'Why am I seeing this post?' The newly launched feature by Facebook enables users to see information about why a particular post has been...

Social networking platform Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg has said that the company was looking to place a restriction on which users can go live on its platform. The restriction is being considered...

Social media giant Facebook has explored ways to improve mobile connectivity for years and the main purpose for doing this is obviously to get more number of people in developed countries online. It would...

Social media platform Facebook is used by millions to stay connected to each other on a regular basis. And more importantly, it helps us engage with our elected officials and reach out to them...

One of the most annoying things on Facebook is auto playing videos on the News Feed. While this feature has now made its way to other social networking platforms and internet in general, Facebook...

Social media giant Facebook has said in a statement today that it will end some targeting options for advertisements that have the potential of being discriminatory. This move came as a part of a...

We all know that Instagram is moving towards monetisation not-so-slowly and more and more business features are likely to make their way to the app. Today, another business-related feature was rolled out on the...

Last year was not a good one for Facebook. The social media giant was embroiled in one data breach after the other and while most users did not end up leaving the platform, the...

Social media giant Facebook and its photo-sharing app Instagram just suffered one of the biggest global outages that the platforms have seen so far. Although now you can open the two platforms and some...

There are times when notifications from our favourite apps can annoy us a lot. Although a number of apps have the option of turning notifications off, some of them are still working on it. And...

Any of us can spend hours watching videos on the internet and those hours often tend to run longer when we are watching these videos with friends. Facebook tapped on this tendency of users...

Although the gender gap in the technology industry is a well-known one, we have seen a number of women get to top positions at a number of tech firms. On International Women's Day, we...

In November last year, Facebook was identified with a vulnerability which could let the hackers get private information about Facebook users and their friends by accessing company API in an unauthorized manner. And now, the...

Social media giant Facebook has been finding itself in one controversy after the other since last year. And now, the social networking platform is in a new data-related controversy again. According to a new...

Last month, Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram had announced that previews of IGTV would soon start appearing in users' main News Feed on the home page. The company had taken to Twitter to announce that...

Social networking giant Facebook uses a two-factor authentication process (2FA) for providing additional security to its users which ensures that no other person can access their accounts. Many apps such as Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter...

A number of users of Facebook lost some trust in the social networking platform after the data breaches the company was involved in last year. And now, Facebook is busy working on a number...

Social media giant Facebook is reportedly working on its own cryptocurrency and the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is very ambitious about this new project. Over 50 engineers have been busy working on the new...

Social media giant Facebook has today added a new feature to its service today that will let users share events via Stories. The feature, which is now rolling out globally, lets users add events...

Facebook’s Onavo Protect app is about to shut down in the coming days, and this will cease it from accessing data of users for market research. However, it will continue operating as a Virtual...