Facebook has launched a classifieds marketplace in South Africa, taking on the giants in the space such as Gumtree and OLX. Facebook Marketplace offers users a single destination, built into the social media’s website, where they
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Facebook acknowledged on Monday that social media can have a negative impact on democracies, and that the company has more work to do in order to ensure that the good outweighs the bad. “From the Arab Spring to robust elections around the
For more than two decades, Jeff Bezos has famously sacrificed profit for growth, persuading Wall Street that Amazon.com was best served pouring money into the logistical nuts and bolts that have turned his company into the
If Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sincere in a recent post about gradually taking the media element out of “social media”, he’s striking a powerful blow for tech self-regulation, as well as preparing to pay a heavy price for
Facebook is making major changes to its flagship social network, shifting users’ news feeds back toward posts from friends and family and away from businesses and media outlets – a transition that is likely to mean people spend
Virtual reality devices are still mostly purchased by a niche market: gamers. Google wants to change that. The Alphabet unit released a new VR headset with Lenovo Group on Tuesday, along with specialised cameras to support
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave cryptocurrency enthusiasts a little optimism for the new year. Zuckerberg referenced cryptocurrencies in a posting Thursday in which he laid out how he will spend 2018 trying to correct persistent
Facebook is introducing new facial recognition features that will automatically notify users when their photo is posted on the social network, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. The new features are being rolled out in the
Tencent’s rise into a $500bn company was fuelled by a culture of internal competition, where teams raced against each other to make ideas work. To become an advertising powerhouse like Facebook, the internal barriers are starting to
British Prime Minister Theresa May emerged from 10 Downing Street and stepped somberly to a podium. The previous night, 3 June, three terrorists had driven a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and attacked people in