Facebook Will Attach Its Name to Instagram and WhatsApp, for Some Reason
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) Incredible. Despite a seemingly endless wave of ongoing public relations crises for Facebook, the social media giant appears prepared to foist its baggage onto two of its considerably less troubled subsidiaries—WhatsApp and Instagram—by attaching its name to their companies. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Information reported Thursday that Facebook …
Libra may never launch, Facebook has warned investors
The company has warned investors that the currency, which it wants to launch next year, may not ever get off the ground. The news: In its quarterly report, Facebook reminded investors that the proposed currency, called Libra, is “based on new and unproven technology,” adding that the legal environment surrounding digital currencies is “uncertain and …
M62 accident closes two lanes plus Leeds and Bradford live traffic updates and West Yorkshire breaking news
In memory of Michael: A music festival in memory of Huddersfield man, Michael Hampshire, killed in Afghanistan four years ago was held at Golcar Conservative Club recently. £1,000 was raised for the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) The cheque will be presented to Lieutenant Colonel Barnbrook of the ABF charity at the club on Wednesday, 31 …
How Facebook is Using Machine Learning to Map the World Population
What do Beijing, Tokyo, Istanbul, London, and New York City all have in common? Not only are they all world-class cities that still serve as global hubs of commerce, but these cities also share a relatively rare and important historical designation. At specific points in history, each of these cities outranked all others on the …
DealBook Briefing: Facebook Co-Founder Helps Make a Case for Breaking It Up
Good Friday morning. Coming up: The Justice Department is expected to approve T-Mobile’s deal to buy Sprint this morning. (Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here.) This Facebook co-founder wants to split the company Chris Hughes helped create the company when he was Mark Zuckerberg’s roommate at Harvard, and collected millions for his …
Facebook co-founder campaigning to break up tech ‘monopoly’ he helped create
Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s founders, is calling for the company to be broken up. Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s founders, is calling for the company to be broken up. Photo: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis Va Getty Images Photo: Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis Va Getty Images Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s founders, is calling for the company …
Facebook cofounder met with government about how to break up Facebook
Chris Hughes, a Facebook cofounder-turned-outspoken critic of the social network, is in conversations with US regulators about breaking up the tech company. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Hughes, who left Facebook in 2007, has met with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), US Department of Justice, and unspecified state attorneys general over the …
Facebook fine: Company to pay an unprecedented $5 billion over privacy breaches
The settlement resolves a formal complaint by the FTC alleging that Facebook “used deceptive disclosures and settings” that eroded user privacy, violating a prior agreement Facebook signed with the commission in 2012. Facebook also broke the law, the FTC alleged, by misusing phone numbers obtained for account security purposes to also target advertisements to its …
2 Louisiana police officers fired over Facebook post suggesting Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be shot
Officer Charles Rispoli wrote in the post last week that Ocasio-Cortez is a “vile idiot” who “needs a round…and I don’t mean the kind she used to serve.” Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson told reporters Monday that Rispoli — along with Officer Angelo Varisco, who “liked” the post — had been fired. “This incident, we …