US stock market: Nasdaq rallies as earnings season boost offsets economy worriesThe Nasdaq led gains on Wall Street on Thursday, buoyed by Facebook parent Meta Platforms posting quarterly results that beat revenue forec...
28 Apr, 2023, 08.27 AM IST
US judge denies FTC request to stop Meta from acquiring VR firm WithinJudge Edward Davila of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said the FTC had failed to show that Meta would have e...
04 Feb, 2023, 09.45 AM IST
From Meta to Microsoft, AI's big moment is hereThis week, chief executives across the sector packed earnings calls with mentions of the heavily hyped technology, which until recently exi...
03 Feb, 2023, 10.23 PM IST
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes witness stand in FTC caseAt issue is whether Meta's acquisition of the small company that makes a VR fitness app called Supernatural will hurt competition in the em...
21 Dec, 2022, 06.25 PM IST
Elon Musk named Time's 2021 'Person of the Year'"For creating solutions to an existential crisis, for embodying the possibilities and the perils of the age of tech titans, for driving soc...
14 Dec, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
Elon Musk named Time's 2021 'Person of the Year'According to the magazine, "The Person of the Year" signifies somebody "who affected the news or our lives the most, for better, or worse."
13 Dec, 2021, 07.58 PM IST
View: You are the object of a secret extraction operationFacebook and other leading surveillance capitalist corporations now control information flows and communication infrastructures across the ...
13 Nov, 2021, 11.03 AM IST
Facebook 'operating in the shadows' says whistleblower as US lawmakers demand probesDuring a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, whistleblower Frances Haugen called for transparency about how Facebook entices users to kee...
06 Oct, 2021, 12.20 PM IST
Self-regulation in social media not working: White House"As we saw the revelations that came out in that interview, in our view, this is just the latest in a series of revelations about social me...
05 Oct, 2021, 11.09 AM IST
How Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2 billion WhatsApp usersWhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages, but the Facebook-owned messaging service—the world's largest—has an extensive mo...
12 Sep, 2021, 02.17 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg skips meals, his parents wonder if they should send food overThe Facebook CEO said he had lost 10 pounds as a result of forgetting to eat.
24 Apr, 2021, 05.03 PM IST
Knowing Brian Acton, creator of WhatsApp and its viral rival SignalSignal App is considered the gold standard for privacy by journalists and whistleblowers. WhatsApp, meanwhile, wants to share significantly...
09 Jan, 2021, 12.18 AM IST
Did you know eBay founder Pierre Omidyar earned $6 an hour in high school for coding?The philanthropist top boss' fascination with computers began early.
09 Aug, 2018, 01.00 PM IST
Donald Trump is Time magazine's Person of the Year 2016The first runner-up for Person of the Year is Trump's rival in the presidential elections Hillary Clinton and the second runner-up are onli...
07 Dec, 2016, 06.34 PM IST
Five times when honchos expressed their outrageThe arrest of a former CEO led his son to term the charges of murder against him as 'outrageous'. Here are a few other examples.
26 Nov, 2015, 11.16 AM IST
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg says US government threat to InternetZuckerberg said he had called Obama to complain that the US govt is undermining confidence in the Internet with vast, secret surveillance p...
14 Mar, 2014, 09.01 AM IST
- Facebook says apps shared user data, promises fix
Facebook said some of its applications violated the social networking company's policies against sharing user information, and promised to ...
04 Nov, 2010, 04.10 AM IST