Washington : There is an online propaganda "arms race" with Russia and the most important thing right now is to make sure no one interferes in the upcoming elections globally, vowed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the five-hour marathon session at the US Congress....
San Francisco : Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at Tim Cook saying that the recent criticism from his counterpart at Apple was unfounded, the media reported. In an interview given to Vox on Monday, Zuckerberg defended his company's business model by saying:...
By Nishant Arora, New Delhi : It was the perfect photo-op when Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a town-hall meeting at the social media giant's sprawling headquarters at Menlo Park, California, in September 2015. With Facebook...
By Amit Kapoor, "Data is the new oil" has been a clichéd maxim of the internet age. But the events that unfolded last week have underlined the extent of complexities that can be created in society depending on the nature of its usage. A year-long investigation by...
Mumbai : Actor Farhan Akhtar has 'permanently' deleted his personal account on social networking website Facebook. The 44-year-old has become the latest celebrity to quit the social network in the wake of the Facebook data breach row. However, he did not mention the...
New York : The US Federal Trade commission has confirmed that it was investigating Facebook after the leak of personal and other data on some 50 million users to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. The FTC said on Monday that it "takes very seriously recent...
Manama : Bahrain announced tough measures against social media accounts that "spread malicious rumors" under the guise of the Royal Court. Interior Minister Shaikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa noted on Sunday steps to deal with unprecedented chaos by disruptive...
London : The European Union (EU) has "grave suspicions" about Google's abuse of the monopoly it enjoys over Internet search in Europe and is open to breaking the tech giant into smaller companies, the bloc's competition commissioner has warned. According to 'The Daily...
San Francisco : After taking down SpaceX, Tesla and his own official pages from Facebook, the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has now justified his action. "It's not a political statement and I didn't do this because someone dared me to do it. Just don't like...
Mumbai : Google on Sunday remembered late actor Farooq Sheikh on his 70th birth anniversary with a doodle styled on hand-painted movie posters of the 1970s, and especially his "Umrao Jaan". Born on this day in 1948, Farooq grew up in Mumbai, in a simple, middle-class...