Facebook was fined €110m (about R1,6bn) by the European Union for misleading regulators during a 2014 review of the WhatsApp messaging service takeover on the same day the EU threatened
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For a guy who just lost about a quarter of his net worth, Snap co-founder Evan Spiegel exuded confidence on his first earnings conference call, explaining away the company’s shortcomings and even throwing shade at his bigger
Amazon.com and Google parent company Alphabet posted results last week that extended their dominance of how we shop and search online. Apple and Facebook will in the coming days add evidence that tech behemoths command
Twitter’s road to a turnaround looks like it isn’t quite as rough as expected. The company reported a decline in quarterly revenue for the first time since it went public in 2013, but sales, at $548m, were higher
Connected South Africans are more likely to have checked into Facebook in the past week than watched television, according to a new study. Cape Town-based media agency Limelight Consulting has published the
Facebook’s research unit, Building 8, is working to make it possible for people to type using signals from their brains, part of the lab’s broader effort to free people from their phones. Regina Dugan, hired from Google parent
The Facebook Live video of the murder of 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr by Steve Stephens has been watched at least 1,6m times. It took Facebook three hours to take the video down, and by that
WorldRemit, a British money-transfer operator, sees revenue from transactions involving Africans doubling by 2020 as more people on the continent access mobile payment platforms and expatriates send cash home. The seven-year-old
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his strategy for augmented reality on Tuesday, saying the social network will use smartphone cameras to overlay virtual items on the real world rather than waiting for AR glasses to be technically possible. People will
Facebook has increased its number of African users to 170m and plans to expand further by adding Wi-Fi hotspots and fibre-optic cables, in a bid to spread its reach outside of developed markets. The figure is