Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg came within a whisker of leapfrogging Warren Buffett as the world’s third-richest person on Wednesday. Zuckerberg, more than half a century younger than the Berkshire
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Facebook’s photo-sharing app Instagram has reached a billion monthly active users. To spur future growth, the company announced a new feature: Instagram television. Anyone will be able to upload videos for Instagram’s new
Alice Liogier wants to slap a price on her data. The 23-year-old graduate student from Paris is researching the commercial use of personal information in the age of big data and she’s reached a controversial
Facebook said it had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese consumer device makers, including Huawei, escalating concerns that the social network has consistently failed to tell users how their personal
Apple’s software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment – for Facebook. Toward the tail end of a more than two-hour Apple presentation to software developers, the company announced changes to
Facebook is disputing a New York Times report about how it shares data with device makers from Apple and Amazon to Samsung. They’re privy to Facebook users’ information but it’s nothing like the access that led to the
It was not a normal Facebook shareholder meeting. On Thursday in Menlo Park, California, one investor compared the social network’s poor stewardship of user data to a human rights violation. Another warned that
Three years ago, Facebook was the dominant social media site among US teens, visited by 71% of people in that magic, trendsetting demographic. Not anymore. Now, only 51% of kids between 13 and 17 use Facebook
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has been in effect for less than a week. It was always clear that a vast number of companies would comply in only the most perfunctory way, at least while the law was
Qualcomm plans to unveil a dedicated chip to power standalone virtual-reality and augmented-reality headsets as it seeks to break into new businesses beyond smartphones, according to people familiar with the