WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from US intelligence agencies…
SAN FRANCISCO: The state of Washington said on Monday it had sued Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google for allegedly violating state campaign finance law by failing to maintain information about who buys…
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday issued notices to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman and Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) over a petition regarding Facebook’s influence on general elections 2018.…
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO: Most of Facebook’s US users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about millions of accounts without owners’ permission, a Reuters/Ipsos…
LOS ANGELES: British Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in the dark comedy Queen America, the first major series produced by Facebook, which is seeking a foothold in the uber-competitive market for original…
LAHORE: Government of Pakistan’s official Facebook page on Thursday secured a spot among the “Top 10 Most Active Governments on Facebook”. According to a globally reputed study conducted by Burson Cohn and Wolfe,…
WASHINGTON: Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease operations in the United States (US) and United Kingdom (UK), adding that they would be filing for bankruptcy. The company admitted that it had…
SILICON VALLEY: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the world’s largest social network will soon include a new dating feature — while vowing to make privacy protection its top priority in the…
SAN FRANCISCO: The co-founder of WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook Inc with more than 1 billion daily users, said on Monday he was leaving the company, in a loss of…
BERLIN: Facebook said on Monday it had already removed a posting that called German far-right leader Alice Weidel a “Nazi swine”, but would consider its next steps after a court issued a preliminary…
MENLO PARK: Facebook’s new focus on protecting private user data is likely to change the game for many campaigns, making it harder to deliver highly targeted, personal political messages. The changes unveiled…
SAN FRANCISCO: If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook Inc users around the world would be protected…
MENLO PARK: Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would continue requiring people to accept targeted ads as a condition of using its service, a stance that may help keep its business model…
WASHINGTON: Most of the political ads about divisive issues that ran on Facebook Inc before the 2016 US presidential election were sponsored by “suspicious groups” with no publicly available information about them, according…
HARIPUR: An American woman and a Pakistani man from Haripur met on Facebook, after which she travelled all the way to Pakistan to marry him. Mary Kathleen met Adeel Awan when he…
BRUSSELS: Sensing the Facebook scandal has shifted the transatlantic winds, the EU is asserting itself as a forward-looking regulator rather than a retrograde bulwark against Silicon Valley’s innovative might. After years of…
NEW YORK: The Facebook scandal involving the harvesting of data from tens of millions of users has raised a lot of questions about social media and search engines. As Facebook founder and…
