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Why Facebook joined the Indian Telecom Operator association COAI
At a time when telecom operators CEO’s in India are lobbying with the Telecom Regulator TRAI to regulate OTT (Internet based services), Facebook has signed up to become an associate member of the...
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Facebook looks to reduce clickbait links by tracking how users behave after...
In a move that could significantly impact the clickbaity listicle sites, Facebook is rolling out significant updates to the News Feed to reduce click-baiting headlines and prioritize showing links...
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Facebook introduces Bandwidth Targeting to help advertisers tap into its...
Facebook has introduced a new ad unit called bandwidth targeting that lets advertisers use the Ad Create tool, Power Editor and the API to develop and target ads based on the quality of the Facebook...
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Facebook completes acquisition of WhatsApp; Deal now worth $22B
Facebook has finally closed the acquisition of the mobile messaging app WhatsApp, according to a public filing with the US SEC. This news comes a week after Facebook received regulatory approval from...
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What Mark Zuckerberg didn’t say about Internet.org
When Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi later today, he’s likely to make a strong pitch for Internet for all, via Facebook backed Internet.org....
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For every Indian woman on Facebook, there are three Indian men – Scroll.in
by Shivam Vij, Scroll.in Facebook has a problem. Two-thirds of the world’s population is not on the internet. Male domination in India is part of this problem. In September 2012, the number of active...
View Article“I Fucking Love Science” Facebook page blocked in India
This is as bizarre as that instance of a wedding photographers album getting blocked in India last year. It appears that the “I Fucking Love Science” Facebook page has been blocked in India (Hat tip:...
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66% of Facebook’s ad revenues in Q3 2014 were from mobile ads
The contribution of mobile advertising to Facebook’s ad revenues is increasing: Around 66% of Facebook’s ad revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2014 was from mobile ads, up from 49%...
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WhatsApp revenues at $15M for the first six months of 2014
Facebook owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp has reported a net loss of $232.51 million for the six month ended June 30, 2014 (H1 2014), a significant increase from $58.8 million loss in the same...
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WhatsApp claims to have 70 million active users in India
Facebook owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp claims to have reached 70 million monthly active users (MAUs) in India, WhatsApp business head Neeraj Arora has told PTI. This is up from 65 million Indian...
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Facebook’s transparency is limited to its report. What about everything else?
The Facebook page of the controversial ‘Kiss of Love‘ protest was blocked along with the profile pages of all 15 administrators and a related Facebook group Free Thinkers’ earlier this week, reports...
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Facebook partners VivaConnect to strengthen its missed call ad unit
Facebook has partnered mobile media company VivaConnect to scale up the reach of its missed calls ad unit business, reports exchange4media.com. Facebook had started testing this ad unit in partnership...
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WhatsApp starts encrypting messages on Android via TextSecure
Facebook-owned mobile messaging app WhatsApp has rolled out end-to-end encryption in the most recent update of its Android app. This essentially means that only the sender and receiver will have...
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Facebook introduces Collection, an ad format for product sales; other updates
Facebook has introduced a new ad format called Collection that features a primary video or image above the product images ‘within a shoppable unit built for mobile’. This format supports showcasing of...
View Article‘Up to 600 million’ Facebook passwords stored in plain text: Report
The passwords of hundreds of millions of Facebook users were stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees for years, according to a report by KrebsOnSecurity. According to the...
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