SOCIAL NETWORKING

Facebook to Invest $1 Billion in First Asian Data Centre in Singapore

Facebook said on Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,100 crores) to build its first data centre in Asia...

Twitter India Head Taranjeet Singh Quits, Balaji Krish New Interim Chief

Taranjeet Singh, who was elevated as Twitter’s Country Director for India in May 2017, has decided to move on. In a series of tweets late on...

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Users Faced Temporary Outage on Monday

Facebook on Monday said a technical problem prevented some users from accessing and posting on the social network as well as messaging app WhatsApp and Instagram,...

Facebook AI Said to Significantly Improve Urdu to English Translation

Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers at Facebook have set a new record in improving translation from Urdu to English. The team used Neural Machine Translation (NMT),...

Facebook, Twitter Executives to Testify to US Congress Next Week

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey are set to face a fresh grilling on Capitol Hill next week as lawmakers probe Silicon Valley’s efforts...

Facebook Fixes Bug That Marked Some Posts as Spam

A day after some users complained about their Facebook posts being marked as spam, Facebook on Saturday said it has fixed the bug that...

WhatsApp Rejects Indian Government’s Demand for Message Traceability

WhatsApp has rejected India’s demand for a solution to track the origin of messages on its platform, saying building traceability will undermine end-to-end...

Facebook Is Rating the Trustworthiness of Its Users on a Scale From 0 to 1

Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. The previously unreported...

Kerala Floods: Facebook Donates Rs. 1.75 Crores for Victims

Social networking giant Facebook is donating $250,000 (nearly Rs 1.75 crore) for relief work in Kerala, which has been battered by torrential rains, floods...