Facebook will invest $5.7-billion in the digital assets controlled by India’s richest man, the US social-networking giant’s biggest deal since the 2014 purchase of WhatsApp.
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Facebook has unveiled a new version of its Messenger app that it says is significantly faster and simpler to use.
Bill Gates paid Tesla a compliment for coaxing the car industry to go electric. If he was expecting kind words in return, he apparently shouldn’t have spoken about challenges that still lie ahead – or about his new Porsche.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to offer public support for international tax reform which would see technology giants pay more tax in Europe.
Messaging platform WhatsApp has surpassed two billion active users. The encrypted messaging service, founded in 2009, was bought by Facebook for $19-billion in 2014.
Instagram, the photo-sharing app Facebook acquired for $715-million in 2012, generated more than a quarter of the social media company’s revenue last year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mark Zuckerberg used to want everyone to like Facebook Inc. Now, he doesn’t care anymore.
Facebook’s growth is slowing, adding pressure to a company facing more restrictive privacy regulations and continued scrutiny from global lawmakers and antitrust officials.
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has called for the repeal of section 230, part of a US law that protects internet companies from liability for content their users post online.
China’s ByteDance created one of the country’s rare global hits with the addictive video app TikTok. Now the US government is threatening that success as officials in Washington warn the service presents a security threat.