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Jobs Will Go, Teams will Shrink, and No Hirings: Zuckerberg Lays Out Grim Warning to Meta Staff

Leave Russia while you still can; US urges Americans to depart immediately Mark Zuckerberg has said that Meta is freezing hiring across the board and that more layoffs would happen…

Meta Says It Removes China-based Propaganda Operation Targeting U.S. Midterms

Woman holds smartphone with Meta logo in front of a displayed Facebook’s new rebrand logo Meta in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021. Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it…

Australia Demands Apple, Meta, Microsoft Share Anti-abuse Steps, Threatens Fines

Meta logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022. An Australian regulator sent legal letters to Facebook owner Meta Platforms, Apple Inc and Microsoft Corp demanding they share…

Meta’s VP of Horizon VR platform quits just before launch of new VR headset

Netflix fans in ecstasy as OTT platform slashes prices of streaming plans Vivek Sharma, the Indian-origin VP of Meta’s Horizon social media virtual reality (VR) platform, is departing from the…

Mark Zuckerberg releases his new digital avatar to stop memes, but more follow

Mark Zuckerberg and other business leaders oppose Trumps order to end DACA To stop too many poorly-designed memes on him, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has released his official metaverse avatar…

Instagram can track user’s web activity including confidential information, via in-app browser: Report

10 facts about ransomeware Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is capable of tracking its users’ actions, text choices and even text input, such as passwords and confidential credit card information, if…

Technology: Sheryl Sandberg officially steps down as Meta COO

Odisha EOW asks Google to remove 45 ‘illegal’ loan apps from Play Store Meta chief operating officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg has finally moved on from the position after spending 14…

Music: Short-video leader TikTok now plans own music streaming service

Baby Elephants Out And About With The Herd After dominating the short-video format market and giving jitters to Meta (formerly Facebook), TikTok parent company ByteDance is now eyeing the music…

Meta opposes CCI probe in Delhi HC; says FB can’t be investigated ‘due to’ WhatsApp [details]

German court rules actions of Facebook as illegal for removing racist posts without user consent Opposing the Competition Commission of India (CCI)’s probe into the latest WhatsApp privacy policy, its…

FaceBook sues Chinese firm Octopus for scraping data from FB, Instagram

J&K could have another Pahalgam; but there’s 1.75 lakh tonne garbage problem Meta has sued Octopus, a US subsidiary of a Chinese high-tech enterprise, and a Turkish individual for scraping…

WhatsApp says banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in India in May

By IANS July 1, 2022 19:49 IST What Are Vitamins And Which Ones Should You Take? Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said that it banned over 19 lakh bad accounts in…