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26 Mar

Facebook Seeing Weakening Ads Business In Nations Hit By Coronavirus

Despite witnessing an increase in engagement on some of its platforms, like Messenger and WhatsApp, Facebook has admitted that its ad business is getting adversely affected especially ”in places hit hardest by the COVID-19 coronavirus. In a recent blog post — Keeping Our Services Stable and Reliable During the COVID-19 Outbreak, the company discusses the…

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24 Mar

Facebook Employees To Receive Full Bonuses For The Current Six-Month Period As Coronavirus Assistance

Along with launching new paid time off programs, where Facebook is allowing employees to take up to a month away from work to care for sick relatives in light of the coronavirus outbreak, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has informed that alls 45,000 employees of the company will receive their six-month bonuses and an additional $1,000 bonus to help…

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26 Sep

How Facebook’s Acquisition Of CTRL Labs For Brain-Computer Interface Could Be A Privacy Hassle

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The recent CTRL-Labs acquisition which reportedly cost Facebook anywhere between $500 million and $1 billion highlights its intentions to expand its hardware technologies. Earlier, Facebook’s Building 8 project (now Facebook Reality Labs) was being run by DARPA director Regina Dugan to make breakthroughs in brain-computer interface, and now the recent acquisition would renew Facebook’s efforts…

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19 Mar

And The Bad News Spree Continues For Facebook With The Recent NZ Shooting

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Since quite some time, Facebook has been caught up in a wave of litigations. Last year, the social media giant disclosed that an unprecedented security issue impacted almost 50 million user accounts. It was nothing less than a shock to all its users. Numerous questions were thrown at Facebook regarding the platforms security strength. Even though Facebook…

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19 Mar

And The Bad News Spree Continues For Facebook With The Recent NZ Shooting

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Since quite some time, Facebook has been caught up in a wave of litigations. Last year, the social media giant disclosed that an unprecedented security issue impacted almost 50 million user accounts. It was nothing less than a shock to all its users. Numerous questions were thrown at Facebook regarding the platforms security strength. Even though Facebook…

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