The Supreme Court (SC) of India has questioned WhatsApp and Facebook on introducing new stringent privacy policy for the Indian users. The apex court has asked the social media giants about why Indian users haven’t been provided with the same leniency on accepting new privacy policies as the European users. According to a report from the Livemint, the SC has said that it will have to intervene in the matter... Read More
Facebook might come out with a gadget that everyone likes to wear on a daily. The company is said to working on a smartwatch that could launch next year. According to a report from The Information, the smartwatch might be powered by the Android. Whether Facebook will use its own operating system (OS) or Google’s Wear OS is unknown at the moment. The smartwatch is expected to be loaded with... Read More
Facebook Inc. on Wednesday announced that its messaging service, Messenger will be coming to Oculus Quest handsets by the end of this week. For those of you unaware, Oculus is a Facebook-owned venture that focuses on Virtual Reality (VR) and gaming, with the company being a renowned seller of its Quest lineup of VR handsets. How Will Messenger on Quest Work? The users who are logged in to their Quests... Read More
The last few weeks have been everything but kind to Facebook. The company was under a lot of scrutiny for having access to user data that it doesn’t require of. In addition to that, the whole WhatsApp privacy issue and the shift to better alternatives such as Telegram and Signal that followed, Facebook has had a bad January to say the least. The company is yet to learn that not... Read More
The hot debate of WhatsApp’s new ‘Terms & Conditions’ has now the brought Indian government into the play as well. The social media giant recently updated its terms for app usage, which has left users with two choices; either to accept the new changes or bid farewell to the app. WhatsApp has given users time till February 8, 2021, to decide about the same. The Indian government is worried about... Read More
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has finally responded to the backlash it is receiving over the last five days. Ever since WhatsApp started pushing users to accept its new privacy policy, the entire world is criticising the popular instant messaging platform. Replying to the concerns it received, WhatsApp said the private messages are still protected on its platform. WhatsApp also cleared that the policy update does not affect the privacy of user messages... Read More
One of the largest social media platforms and texting applications, WhatsApp recently updated its ‘Terms and Conditions’ for the use of the app, and people are angry about it. In a nutshell, users have until February 8 to accept the terms and conditions, or else they can say goodbye to the app. The particular thing in the new terms and conditions everyone is mad about is ‘sharing of WhatsApp data’... Read More
Facebook has removed the ‘Like’ button from public pages on the platform. The social media giant's focus is on the ‘followers’ of a page instead of ‘likes’. Now users will be able to see the number of people a page is following and the number of followers it has. Facebook in a blog post said that they have made the recent changes to their pages for enabling public figures, businesses,... Read More
Social media giant Facebook is looking to have a major impact in India through its partnership with Reliance Jio. At the first Facebook Fuel for India 2020 event, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said its collaboration with Jio would help small businesses (SMBs) grow in the country. Earlier this year, Facebook announced an investment of Rs 43,574 crore in Jio Platforms for a stake purchase of 9.99%. Zuckerberg added that... Read More
Facebook today announced a new feature called 'Vanish Mode' for both Messenger and Instagram. As the name of the feature itself suggests, messages vanish or disappear automatically once the receiver views it. Users can send memes, GIFs, stickers or reactions in the vanish mode and everything disappears without staying in the chat history. The feature is currently rolling out to Messenger and Facebook says it will reach Instagram in a... Read More
Instagram, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world, announced ‘Reels’ a few months back on August 5, 2020. Reels was announced as a medium for people to create, share, and discover short, entertaining content on Instagram. Since then, Reels has become quite popular amongst the users of the social media application. Thus, Instagram has recently announced that users will now find a dedicated Reels button at... Read More
Facebook on Tuesday announced that it is “testing” Accounts Center on its ecosystem of apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Messenger enabling users to “control connected experiences” across the company apps. The social networking giant said that it wants to make it “easier” for users to switch between the apps to post the same content or entering credit card information. The company said that the Accounts Center and connected experiences... Read More
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