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Arun Srinivas Meta India Head: Meta, the parent company of the US-based social media giant Facebook, has appointed marketing veteran Arun Srinivas as its new Managing Director and Head for India. Srinivas, who has been serving as Director and Head of the Ads Business at Meta India since 2022, will replace Sandhya Devanathan in the…
New Delhi: Alexandr Wang, the founder and CEO of Scale AI, told his employees that he’s leaving the company to join Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp). This news came right after reports that Meta was making a huge investment in Scale AI—about dollar14.3 billion—which gives Meta a 49% stake in the…
New Delhi: Meta-owned, WhatsApp has officially launched its long-awaited app for iPad users. Meta announced the dedicated app with features like end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls for up to 32 people, screen sharing, and more—all designed to bring the full WhatsApp experience to iPad. Meta has also added a few iPad-specific features to make…
WhatsApp Privacy Campaign: WhatsApp, the instant messaging platform, has launched a global privacy campaign highlighting that no one—not even the Meta-owned service—can see or hear users’ messages. The campaign, titled ‘Not Even WhatsApp’, is the company’s largest marketing initiative to date and aims to emphasize enhanced privacy for its over 3 billion monthly users worldwide….
New Delhi55 minutes ago Copy link Fake news and miss-information are being spread on social media platforms amid increasing tension between India and Pakistan. To prevent this, the central government is pressurizing the meta and X (Twitter). According to media reports, the central government is instructing to remove more than 1,000 posts daily from social…
Washington47 minutes ago Copy link Mark Zuckerberg went to Mar-e-Lago on 27 November after Trump’s victory. Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta will pay a compensation of $ 25 million (about Rs 217 crore) to US President Donald Trump. According to the New York Times, President Trump has signed a legal agreement in the case. Meta deleted…
Washington: Meta has agreed to pay President Donald Trump $25 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit he filed claiming he was wrongfully censored by Facebook and Instagram after the US Capitol riot, media reported Wednesday. The Wall Street Journal first reported the settlement of the suit brought against Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg,…
New Delhi: In a respite for Mark Zuckerberg-run Meta, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday stayed the five-year ban imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on WhatsApp for its data-sharing practices. The NCLAT bench, led by Justice Ashok Bhushan, said such a ban could disrupt WhatsApp’s business model in the…
New Delhi: Shivanth Thukral Vice-President, Public Policy, Meta India has responded to the remarks being made by its founder Mark Zuckerberg on the 2024 General Elections in India. Thukral’s response came in the wake of Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw’s tweet wherein the minister called Zuckerberg’s claim as factually incorrect. “As the world’s largest democracy, India…
New Delhi: The Social media behemoth Meta is set to be summoned by a Parliamentary panel over “incorrect and irresponsible” remarks by its founder Mark Zuckerberg on the 2024 General Elections in India. The information was shared by Nishikant Dubey, BJP MP and the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology…