Facebook parent Meta is laying off 13% of its employees as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes Facebook parent Meta is laying off 13% of its employees as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, […]
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You probably didn’t know this, but some of your data continues to be stored on Facebook’s database even after you delete your account. Yes, your contact details may stick around or may even get uploaded when someone else syncs their contacts. That obviously is not great for user privacy. Thankfully, the Meta-owned company offers a […]
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Meta has recently introduced new creator tools for both Instagram and Facebook. As part of the company’s announcement during Creator Week 2022, new ways for creators to make money on the social media platforms was announced. Here’s a quick look at all the new additions. Note that most of these features are currently only available […]
Continue ReadingEach committee will have power to overturn content moderation decisions made by the social media platforms. Each committee will have power to overturn content moderation decisions made by the social media platforms. Social media users will now have the option to appeal against the grievance redressal process of the platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and […]
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Before Instagram became the social media behemoth that we know today, it began as a fledgeling company that was the idea of two Stanford graduates. With more than two billion active users, the Meta-owned social media platform might already occupy a rent-free position in your head. But here are some things that you might not […]
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Google this week reported a steep decline in profits. Social media companies such as Meta said that advertising sales — the heart of its businesses — have rapidly cooled off. And Microsoft, perhaps the tech industry’s most reliable performer, predicted a slowdown through at least the end of the year. Tech companies led the way […]
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Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram now has 2 billion monthly active users worldwide, closing in on the 2.96 billion who use Facebook, in a sign of the social media giant’s shifting makeup. The company disclosed the number during an otherwise-gloomy earnings report Wednesday, when a shaky ad market clouded Meta’s forecast and sent its shares tumbling. […]
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About a year after Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms Inc. to highlight its new focus on the metaverse, long-term shareholder Altimeter Capital Management has called on the company to rein in its spending on the bet. Meta has lost focus and its shares are underperforming peers, Brad Gerstner, chief executive officer of the […]
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Facebook has announced several new enhancements for the Groups feature aimed at helping users engage more deeply and making management of Groups an easier job for admins. One of these is an obvious attempt to combat fake news — admins will soon be able to sift out flagged posts in Groups. Perhaps the most significant […]
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Meta has developed a new AI translator that can convert spoken languages like Hokkien into spoken English in an attempt to knock down language barriers. Hokkien, a dialect of southern Min Chinese, is a primarily spoken language and does not have a standard writing system, which makes building translation tools for it a huge challenge. […]
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