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New Delhi: Tech giants such as Google and Facebook will be required to pay newspapers and other media outlets for using their stories, under new laws being drawn up by the UK Government, Daily Mail reported. Under the plans, which are modelled on a system that has been introduced in Australia, the platforms will be […]
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Karimnagar: The Karimnagar police arrested former Maoist Aanem Chandra Rao for influencing youngsters to join CPI (Maoist) after befriending them through social media platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Chander Rao, who is running a Marxist-Leninist Study Center (MLSC) on Facebook used to influence youth towards Maoist, police said. The case of Chander Rao came […]
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Bengaluru: A 25-year-old student has accused Bengaluru police of inaction over her complaint of rape. She has alleged that police are not arresting her Facebook friend who raped her as he is a man of influence, even six days after lodging a complaint. The victim, a fashion designing graduate, had lodged a police complaint with […]
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Workplace, Facebook's collaboration tool for businesses has gained more than seven million paid enterprise users.
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Hyderabad: Controversial Bangladeshi-Swedish writer Taslima Nasreen found herself in a rather exasperating situation on Tuesday when Facebook ‘memorialised’ her account, apparently believing that she is no more. A memorialized account on Facebook means, the person who started the account is dead and the ‘memorialized account’ is a place for friends and family to gather and […]
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San Francisco: After Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple now requires employees to get a Covid booster shot and submit a proof of vaccination before entering office premises and its own retail stores, the media reported. In an internal email seen by The Verge, the iPhone maker said that once an employee is eligible to get a […]
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Patna: An area manager at a private firm here in Danapur locality has approached the Patna Police cyber cell with a complaint alleging that he was honey-trapped by a girl on Facebook. The girl, who initially offered to establish friendship with the victim, turned nude during a video chat and recorded the conversation. Later she […]
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San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) has said that employees who have received Covid booster jabs will only be allowed to enter office premises when it finally reopens. Meta has already said that employees in the US would have to be fully vaccinated against Covid when they return to the office, likely from March 28 which […]
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New Delhi: After ‘Sulli’ deal and ‘Bulli Bai’ aap, new controversy has emerged on social media where now Hindu women with derogatory words and photos are being targeted and bullied. This started with a Telegram app-based channel where highly derogatory posts about Hindu women were being uploaded. After the row on social media, the government […]
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted more time to Whatsapp and Facebook to file their response over notices issued to them by the Competition Commission of India (CCI). The Division Bench was hearing the petitions of Whatsapp and Facebook challenging the single bench, which had dismissed their pleas challenging a CCI order […]
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San Francisco: Popular short video-sharing platform Tiktok has topped the chart of downloads on Christmas Day this year. According to mobile data and analytics company App Annie, the number of downloads on December 25 globally was estimated across both iOS and Google Play Stores. TikTok led the chart of Christmas Day downloads ahead of Instagram, […]
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San Francisco: Popular short video-sharing platform TikTok has surpassed tech giant Google as the most popular website of the year, says a report. According to a report by IT security company Cloudflare, the viral video app gets more hits than the US-based search engine, reports BBC. The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the […]
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Hyderabad: A man has approached the Hyderabad Cybercrime police alleging that a woman, with whom he became friends on Facebook, was threatening and blackmailing him. The 30-year-old complainant, a private employee and a resident of Malakpet, few months ago received a friend request from a profile with a woman’s photo as the display picture. He […]
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San Francisco: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has opened an antitrust probe in Meta’s plan to buy the popular virtual reality (VR) fitness app Supernatural for over $400 million, as the social network begins its journey towards creating Metaverse, the media reported. According to a report in The Information, Meta’s first five VR app […]
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San Francisco: Meta-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram is reportedly now allowing a few users to post longer videos up to 60 seconds on Stories. “As noted by an Instagram user in Turkey, the social networks app is now notifying a few users about the change,” 9To5Mac reported. Currently, if a user records or uploads a video […]
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Gurugram: In a bid to scale its India operations, Meta (formerly Facebook), on Wednesday unveiled its new office here which is said to be the company’s first stand-alone office in Asia. Set in a renovated 130,000 square feet building in Gurugram, the office will host the Centre for Fuelling India’s New Economy (C-FINE) and will […]
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By Renaud Foucart Facebook’s approach to users’ data has just been dealt a major blow from the European court of justice (ECJ). In an answer to a question from Germany’s highest court, the ECJ’s advocate general – whose opinion is not binding but is generally followed by the court – has made an essential clarification […]
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Build consensus by accommodating suggestions from all stakeholders before a robust data protection law is put in place
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Hyderabad: Many a time you might have watched a very interesting dance step on Instagram (reels), Facebook (short videos) or TikTok, and felt inspired enough to give it a try yourself. Well, that is exactly what these short videos on social media platforms are doing – making people groove to the tunes of those who […]
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Hyderabad: To be wary of strangers is one of the most valuable lessons while living in the web age. A shady rise in the number of friend requests on Facebook for many people here, mostly from profiles that have display pictures of attractive women and claiming to be from across the border, has prompted Cybercrime […]
