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On Monday, Facebook announced the addition of two new names to its board of directors, Nancy Killefer and Tracey T. Travis. Killefer brings potentially valuable government insight to Facebook, as she served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Obama administration. With last year’s departure of former Clinton administration chief of staff Erskine […]... →

Facebook’s latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps will finally sync up the ‘already viewed’ status of cross-posted Stories so we don’t have to watch re-runs any more, as I harped about in January. If fully […]... →

The disinformation wars are heating up as the U.S. barrels toward the 2020 presidential election, leaving tech companies again uncomfortable in the role of referee. On Monday, Facebook joined Twitter in flagging a video shared by White House Direction of Social Media Dan Scavino, marking it as “partly false” and limiting its ability to spread […]... →

Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech giant’s share price yet only led to Facebook picking up a $5BN FTC fine. Should Australia prevail in its suit against the tech giant the monetary penalty could […]... →

Facebook приостановил работу трех офисов в Лондоне из-за обнаружения у одного из сотрудников коронавируса, сообщает телеканал Sky News. Также компания запретила рекламу медицинских масок, чтобы не допустить спекуляций на них.... →

On Friday, Facebook announced that it would further attempt to limit coronavirus-related chaos on its platform by banning commerce listings and advertisements for medical face masks. “We’re monitoring COVID19 closely and will make necessary updates to our policies if we see people trying to exploit this public health emergency,” Facebook Director of Product Management Rob […]... →

Last night, in a move that all companies should look to emulate, Microsoft announced that it would continue to pay hourly workers impacted by office closures as the company responds to the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. Now, Facebook appears to be following suit, according to a statement from the company: “We are working closely […]... →

Facebook подал иск в суд против регистратора доменных имён Namecheap и принадлежащего ему прокси-сервиса Whoisguard за то, что они позволяли регистрировать обманные веб-адреса. В частности, речь идёт о попытках некоторых злоумышленников выдать свои сайты за ресурсы Facebook, используя соответствующие доменные имена. Согласно иску, Whoisguard зарегистрировал 45 доменных имён, которые нарушили права на торговые марки Facebook. […] Сообщение Facebook подал в суд на Namecheap за продажу обманных веб-адресов поя... →

«Компания работает стабильно, действия следственных органов не повлияли на обслуживание клиентов и работу с партнерами. Мы работаем в штатном режиме», — сообщил генеральный директор eLama Максим Горбачев в своем комментарии относительно информации о произошедших вчера в офисах компании обысках. Как отмечается на официальной странице сервиса в Facebook, утром 5 марта в офис eLama пришли сотрудники […] Сообщение eLama прокомментировала сообщение об обысках появились сначала на Searchengines.ru.... →

Google cancels its big developer conference, Justin Kan’s legal startup shuts down and Robinhood offers more details about a recent outage. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2020. 1. Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to […]... →

At Facebook’s 2019 F8 developer conference, the company announced plans to introduce desktop apps for its popular communications app Messenger. Now, less than a year later, the Messenger Mac App is beginning to roll out. Though not yet available in the U.S., Messenger for Mac has popped up the Mac App Store in several non-U.S. […]... →

For the first time in eight months, people in Kashmir can use WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and other social services without any fear or use of specialized software — though things are not back to normal yet. India said on Wednesday that it has temporarily lifted the ban on social media services and on the much […]... →

Google announced they are cancelling the physical/in-person version of their massive developer conference, Google I/O, over concerns with the Coronavirus. This was no surprise, as Facebook, Amazon, and other big tech companies have done the same.... →

Китайская торговая площадка AliExpress 3 марта предупредила на своей англоязычной странице в Facebook о возможных задержках посылок из-за эпидемии коронавируса. В компании пояснили, что в случае некоторых отправлений и логистических процессов обработка заказов теперь требует больше времени, чем обычно, а также подчеркнули, что, по данным Всемирной организации здравоохранения, вирус не распространяется через посылки. Отметим, что […] Сообщение AliExpress предупредил о задержке посылок из-за коронавируса поя... →

Так компания пытается смягчить отношение регуляторов к проекту.... →

Mark Zuckerberg has outlined some of the steps that Facebook and his family’s non-profit, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, are taking to respond to the spread of both the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19 and viral misinformation about the illness, in a statement posted earlier this evening. Facebook’s response focuses on three areas: providing accurate information; […]... →

Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? Did Trump call coronavirus the Democrat’s “new hoax”? Those the big questions emerging from a controversial “false” label applied to Politico and NBC News stories by right-wing publisher The Daily Caller. Its Check Your Fact division is a Facebook fact-checking partner, giving it the power to flag links on the social […]... →

After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Google is canceling its I/O developer conference in Mountain View for 2020 as well. The company has sent an email to attendees informing them of the cancellation.  The event was originally scheduled to run from May 12 to 14. This […]... →

Такси-сервис inDriver будет покупать стартапы, предлагая условия как по параметрам M&A, так и по дальнейшим перспективам, включая международную экспансию. Главное условие — у стартапа должна быть укомплектованная команда мобильной разработки. Об этом написал основатель сервиса Арсен Томский на своей странице в фейсбуке.... →