AI rally: SK Hynix, Micron Technology join trillion-dollar club; Taiwan bourse overtakes India in market valueThe AI boom is fueling a surge in chipmakers like SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron, pushing them into the $1 trillion market-cap club. This gl...
28 May, 2026, 11.39 AM IST
Meta falls behind as Alphabet, Amazon outpace Facebook-parent in AI shift during earningsTech giants, including Google-parent Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, announced their quarterly earnings on Wednesday, with the Faceb...
30 Apr, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: How Meta's Muse Spark fares against Anthropic's Opus, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini modelsMuse Spark is the first model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs. It is a natively multimodal, reasoning-focussed AI model, designed to p...
09 Apr, 2026, 09.46 PM IST
Contrary to popular belief, UK study says there's 'no evidence' Facebook harms mental well-beingA University of Oxford study found no consistent evidence that Facebook's global penetration had a negative impact on mental health despite...
10 Aug, 2023, 08.00 AM IST
Time to log out: Facebook is losing millions of daily active users. Will Instagram be next?Facebook and, to a degree, Instagram have overcome challenges before, including data privacy disasters.
04 Feb, 2022, 08.53 AM IST
Facebook CEO backed sharing customer data despite second thoughts - documentsThe decision made it possible for a quiz app to gather data on about 87 million Facebook users the following year, and later share the info...
06 Dec, 2018, 01.12 PM IST
Facebook suspends Boston analytics firm over data usageFacebook has been facing increased scrutiny over how third-party firms use its data since news broke in March that data firm Cambridge Anal...
21 Jul, 2018, 09.01 AM IST
Ravi Shankar Prasad meets key IT ministry officials to discuss data security on social mediaMinistry officials said that the meeting held yesterday with top IT ministry officials lasted for over two hours and deliberated the long-t...
23 Mar, 2018, 04.12 PM IST
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promises changes to protect user dataFacebook has been in the eye of the storm over harvesting of data of millions of users by Cambridge Analytica.
22 Mar, 2018, 10.08 PM IST
Facebook launches 'Facebook Lite' app for Android devicesStarting with India and the Philippines, users will now be able to download and use the new app directly from the Play Store.
30 Jun, 2015, 10.27 AM IST
Mark Zuckerberg lauds telcos for connecting more people to NetFacebook has helped set up with mobile equipment industry's backing two years ago Internet.org, which aims to make basic Internet services.
03 Mar, 2015, 09.08 PM IST
Reliance Communications launches ‘Free Facebook Fridays’ offer“The offer allows Reliance customers to access the social networking site Facebook without data charges or deductions from their preferred ...
11 Dec, 2014, 02.09 PM IST
Aircel offers free Facebook, Whatsapp on all internet packsIn addition, customers can buy special social PI pack for Rs 26 with validity of 28 days depending on their social needs, the company said.
03 Sep, 2014, 02.29 PM IST
Aircel launches product enabling free access to social mediaAircel today announced launch of a new data product -- Facebook for All -- offering free access to the social media platform for its custom...
26 Mar, 2014, 06.25 PM IST
Uninor offers fixed-price scheme for Facebook, WhatsApp usageTelecom operator Uninor, expects to double its 2G mobile Internet business by end of this year with low cost plans starting at 50 paise per...
11 Mar, 2014, 02.03 AM IST
'Efficient apps, spectrum needed to provide low-cost Internet'Facebook said it is working to build mobile apps that use less data and power regardless of the type of phone -- smart or feature.
17 Sep, 2013, 08.34 PM IST
With growing internet penetration and data usage, India is Facebook's new labA group of Facebook engineers from its US headquarters spent a week in India to crack three big questions facing the company.
30 Jul, 2013, 02.16 PM IST