Meta grants senior executives stock awards to retain talentThe pay boost comes as Meta, like other major tech firms, races to gain an edge in AI, intensifying a battle for senior talent. CEO Mark ...
25 Mar, 2026, 09.21 AM IST
At Meta trial, Sheryl Sandberg defends tactics with rivalsSheryl Sandberg, former Meta COO, testified in the FTC's landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of illegally suppressing competition by blo...
17 Apr, 2025, 12.00 PM IST
Top AI business leaders meet with Biden administration to discuss the emerging industry's needsThe emergence of AI holds a mix of promise and peril: The automatically generated text, images, audio and video could help to increase econ...
14 Sep, 2024, 08.50 PM IST
Meta's chief business officer Marne Levine to departMarne Levine's departure comes days after the Financial Times reported that Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc had delayed finalising the b...
13 Feb, 2023, 10.50 PM IST
Billionaire Sheryl Sandberg ties knot with former NBC News Producer Tom BernthalSheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal announced the formal wedding by posting the same photo on their Instagram accounts, holding hands in the w...
21 Aug, 2022, 04.11 PM IST
Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg to testify in Cambridge Analytica privacy lawsuitMark Zuckerberg has agreed to sit for a deposition for as long as six hours, while Sheryl Sandberg is set to be questioned for up to five h...
21 Jul, 2022, 12.05 PM IST
Meta probing Sheryl Sandberg's use of company resources: reportSeveral employees have been interviewed in connection with the investigation by Facebook-parent Meta, the WSJ reported, adding that the pro...
11 Jun, 2022, 12.03 AM IST
Elon Musk’s Twitter bid leans on financier linked to Russian tycoonThe ability of Vy to help finance one of the largest leveraged buyouts in history -- if it goes ahead despite a dispute over fake accounts ...
09 Jun, 2022, 07.59 AM IST
ExpressVPN to shut India servers; Javier Olivan to be Meta’s next COOExpressVPN will remove all its servers in India as it “refuses to participate in the Indian government’s attempts to limit internet freedom...
02 Jun, 2022, 09.34 PM IST
Who is Javier Olivan, Meta's next COO?Javier Olivan, who according to media reports enjoys paragliding and surfing, has most recently served as chief growth officer. In that pos...
02 Jun, 2022, 08.25 AM IST
Google's Android One smartphones to help bolster Facebook's growth in IndiaFacebook will benefit as much as Google as new smartphone users will also log into the former's popular social networking and messenger app...
12 Sep, 2014, 07.02 AM IST
After 100 million users in India, Facebook aims at 1 billionFacebook, the world’s largest social media company, has crossed 100 million users in India — the second country, after the US, in which it ...
09 Apr, 2014, 09.37 AM IST
For 1 billion Facebook users, we need easy connectivity: Javier Olivan, VP of growth and analyticsWe focussed on local languages — today, we have nine, including Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati and Punjabi. For 1 billion, we need easy connect...
09 Apr, 2014, 08.42 AM IST
After hitting 100 million, Facebook now aims at 1 billion users in IndiaThe ascent of Facebook in India has been speedy and has been powered by mobile phones. 84 mn of its users in India access FB from mobile de...
08 Apr, 2014, 04.02 PM IST
- LinkedIn, Facebook see great potential in India
Today about 10% of LinkedIn's members and 5% of Facebook users are from India.
16 Jun, 2011, 06.27 AM IST
'Our plan is not to monetise, but increase user base here'Javier Olivan and Meenal J Balar talk about Facebook's new privacy controls, the ban in China, competition from Twitter, their India strate...
11 Jun, 2010, 01.34 AM IST
- Facebook's India strategy: Increasing user base, not monetising assets
Additional growth for Facebook can only come from international markets. On a sunny morning at Facebook’s Palo Headquarters, ET caught up w...
10 Jun, 2010, 08.33 AM IST