Mark Zuckerberg: News

03 May 2018

Steve Jobs

100 gms of entrepreneurship: What are the ingredients

Find what you love, and let it kill you - that's what an entrepreneur does on a daily basis.

02 May 2018

Facebook

Facebook adds a 'clear history' option after privacy scandal

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has now announced the addition of a 'clear history' option which allows users to clear their browsing history on Facebook.

02 May 2018

Facebook

WhatsApp to soon get group video calling feature

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed at the company's F8 developer conference in San Jose, California, that WhatsApp will launch the group video calling feature in the coming months.

02 May 2018

Facebook

Facebook F8: 6 big announcements from Day 1

Facebook's ongoing F8 2018 developer conference is taking place in San Jose, California.

02 May 2018

Facebook

Facebook is the new Tinder: It is developing dating features

Facebook is developing dating features to allow users to meet non-friends on the social network, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company's F8 developers conference in San Jose, California.

01 May 2018

Facebook

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum quits over privacy clashes with Facebook

WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum has confirmed that he is leaving the company.

28 Apr 2018

Facebook

Facebook warns users about other Cambridge Analytica-sized scandals

Facebook is on the hunt for other Cambridge Analytica-sized scandals and has warned both users and investors about the same.

27 Apr 2018

Facebook

Bhopal court summons Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over a complaint

A court in Bhopal has issued summons to Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on a petition filed by a city-based start-up which accused the social networking giant of hampering and interfering in its business.

27 Apr 2018

Facebook

Bad news: #DeleteFacebook still won't get you off Facebook's radar

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted how data of 87 million users was exploited due to Facebook's lax policies regarding data collection by third-party apps.

27 Apr 2018

Facebook

Facebook sales up by 50% despite Cambridge Analytica scandal

Despite the recent massive data privacy scandal involving political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, Facebook's quarterly sales have risen by almost 50% at the end of the first quarter of 2018.

18 Apr 2018

India

Facebook to fact-check news in poll-bound Karnataka

Facebook has partnered with an independent digital journalism platform BOOM to launch a fact-checking program in India.

14 Apr 2018

Facebook

#DeleteFacebook: 9% US users have done it. When will you?

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal highlighted how data of 87 million users was exploited due to Facebook's lax policies regarding data collection by third-party apps.

12 Apr 2018

Facebook

Testimony day 2: Zuckerberg's own data getting breached and more

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg definitely faced more grilling questions in his second day of hearing before the US Congress.

11 Apr 2018

Facebook

Mistakes and Apology: Yes, Resignation: No. That's Zuck for you.

In his first ever appearance before the US Congress, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took personal responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal.

11 Apr 2018

Facebook

Facebook will maintain integrity of elections in India: Mark Zuckerberg

In his first ever appearance before the US Congress on Tuesday, Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took personal responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica data-breach scandal.

09 Apr 2018

Facebook

US lawmakers to probe Zuckerberg over Facebook data-privacy controversy

Mark Zuckerberg will be grilled by a US senate panel on Tuesday and the House of Representatives lawmakers on Wednesday over the data-breach scandal as pressure mounts for stricter regulations for social media platforms.

07 Apr 2018

Facebook

Facebook will allow users to "unsend" messages in Messenger

After it was reported that Mark Zuckerberg's sent messages on Messenger were erased from personal chats, Facebook has come up with plans to launch an "unsend" feature for all users.

07 Apr 2018

Facebook

It's time you stop trusting Mark Zuckerberg with your information

Mark Zuckerberg is a deeply ambitious man with a penchant for making mistakes and negating/avoiding them for as long as he can. When he cannot, he apologizes, promises to do better and moves on to the next big mistake.

06 Apr 2018

Facebook

Facebook allowed data scraping through phone numbers for years

Facebook recently revealed that a maximum of 87 million users could have been affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

05 Apr 2018

India

Facebook enhances security features ahead of elections in several countries

Terming 2018 a "big year" for elections in several countries including India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that it has deployed technology tools like artificial intelligence and thousands of people to work on security as the company's "major focus" is to protect the integrity of the elections on its platform.

28 Mar 2018

Facebook

After Tesla and SpaceX, Playboy joins #DeleteFacebook movement

In another major blow to social media giant Facebook, Playboy has decided to pull down its Facebook page after data breach allegations.

28 Mar 2018

Facebook

Zuckerberg refuses to appear before UK parliamentary committee for questioning

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has refused to appear before a UK Parliament committee that's investigating data misuse on social media in the light of the recent Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal.

25 Mar 2018

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to Britons through full-page newspaper ads

Following the backlash over the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full page adverts in British newspapers to apologize.

24 Mar 2018

India

Typing BFF on Facebook? Don't, it won't help

If you want to check how easy it is to spread fake news and misinformation on Facebook, the BFF hoax is a glowing example.

22 Mar 2018

Facebook

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg finally speaks up on Cambridge Analytica scandal

After five days of collective outrage from the public and lawmakers alike over Facebook's blatant disregard for data privacy and security, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally broken his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

21 Mar 2018

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Congress has hired Cambridge Analytica for 2019 polls, BJP alleges

Information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad alleged that Congress has roped in Cambridge Analytica (CA), UK-based data analytics firm, for strategizing for the 2019 parliamentary elections.

21 Mar 2018

Facebook

How to protect personal information from third-party apps on Facebook

In the wake of Facebook's ongoing controversy regarding data privacy and security, it has become imperative that users take it upon themselves to protect personal information from third-party apps on the platform.

21 Mar 2018

Facebook

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton wants everyone to delete Facebook

In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, which increased the net worth of one of the co-founders of the chat app, Brian Acton, to $6.5 billion.

20 Mar 2018

Facebook

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy: Zuckerberg loses $6 billion in 1 day

Amid growing controversy over data security and privacy, Facebook's shares fell by 6.7% as they ended trading at $172.56, wiping almost $37 billion off the social network's market value.

07 Mar 2018

Forbes

Jeff Bezos overtakes Bill Gates to become world's richest man

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has overtaken Microsoft's Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world.

02 Mar 2018

Facebook

Facebook discontinues failed split News Feed experiment

After learning that users didn't like two separate News Feeds, one for family/friends and another for commercial pages, Facebook has ended its Explore Feed test.

10 Feb 2018

Facebook

Why did Facebook hire pollster to monitor Zuckerberg's image?

Last year Facebook hired a full-time pollster, Tavis McGinn, to monitor what people around the world thought about Mark Zuckerberg.

01 Feb 2018

India

WhatsApp hits 1.5 billion monthly users, 60 billion daily messages

According to WhatsApp's Q4 2017 earnings report, the instant messaging app now boasts of 1.5 billion monthly active users and hits 60 billion messages per day.

24 Jan 2018

Facebook

Flicks: A new unit of time invented by Facebook

Facebook has come up with a new way of measuring time. Just like hours, minutes and seconds, there's now a new unit of time called "Flicks" invented by Facebook's Virtual Reality team.

12 Jan 2018

Facebook

Facebook News Feed to now prioritize posts from friends

Facebook is making a major modification to its News Feed algorithm that will prioritize posts from friends and family instead of news and other third-party publisher content.

05 Jan 2018

Facebook

In 2018, Zuckerberg vows to rid Facebook of hate, interference

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's 33-year-old founder-CEO, famously gives himself a personal challenge at the beginning of every year.

05 Jan 2018

Cryptocurrency

Ripple co-founder now richer than Oracle, Google co-founders!

The meteoric rise of Ripple cryptocurrency, XRP, made Ripple Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Chris Larsen one of the US's top five richest people.

07 Dec 2017

Cancer

Is the cure for cancer, AIDS hiding in plain sight?

There're still many diseases for which we have no treatment yet. But what if we had already discovered the cure accidentally and didn't know about it?