Kerala couple use Facebook live to call out on moral policing by cops
Kerala: A young Kerala couple went live on Facebook as two police personnel allegedly try to moral police them over their "indecent" behaviour. The youngsters, who are not married, were questioned by police yesterday, when they were sitting in the...
No privacy on FB, WhatsApp: SC seeks response to plea
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and social media platform Facebook over a plea seeking privacy on data. Seeking a reply in two weeks, the apex court asked...
Jio has grown faster than FB, Whatsapp, Skype : Ambani
Mumbai: Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD, Reliance Industries reveals big plans for Reliance Jio for the first 3 months. Highlights. Ambani says Reliance Jio has grown faster than Facebook, WhatsApp or Skype. Ambani says in 3 Months, Reliance Jio has become...
Kajol joins Facebook but breaks news on Twitter!
Actress Kajol joined the social networking site Facebook today. The 42-year-old actress, who is currently busy with the promotions of her husband Ajay Devgn's upcoming film "Shivaay", launched her Facebook page at its headquarters in California and shared the news with...
Friendship on facebook proves costly for a young girl
Representational Pic Nagpur: Establishing friendship with a young man proves to be costly for a young girl in Rana Pratap Nagar area. The victim girl alleged that the young man has hacked her facebook account and has uploaded porn pictures...
Soon advertisements on whatsapp too!
One very popular and widely used social media whatsapp is going to used proactively for commercial purposes too. The authorities of WhatsApp say that it will begin sharing more data with Facebook and will start letting some companies send messages...
President Mukherjee’s daughter faces online harassment, puts up texts on Facebook
New Delhi/Nagpur: Sharmishtha Mukherjee, Delhi Congress spokesperson and the daughter of President Pranab Mukherjee, claimed today that a man harassed her by sending lewd messages and put up screenshots of the texts on her Facebook page. "The person is completely unknown to...
Facebook to launch ‘make money from post’ feature soon
Social networking website Facebook is planning to roll out a feature that can allow users to make money as they post on Facebook. People using Facebook can make money from posts by adding ' jar tip' in the near future, claims...
ASCI upholds 51 complaints against misleading ads by Airtel, Amazon, Vodafone and more
New Delhi/Nagpur: Advertising sector watchdog ASCI upheld complaints against 51 misleading advertisements in January, including those of Airtel, Patanjali, Amazon, Facebook, Vodafone, Shoppers Stop, Coca-Cola, Emami and Dabur. The Customer Complaints Council (CCC) of Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI)...
Facebook to firm its video services as it owns ‘Face Swap’ app!
In a major step to consolidate its video services, social media giant Facebook has finalised the deal with Masquerade Technologies Inc, which is famed for creating popular face-swapping app MSQRD. The development comes three years after photo and video messaging...
Facebook unwraps full-screen ads to take on TV commercials
Facebook on Thursday rolled out a platform for quick, immersive ads with the potential to become a tempting rival to television commercials. The leading social network made Canvas available globally as a free tool marketers can use to turn smartphone or...
Facebook comes up with suicide prevention tool in Britain
After a successful trial in the US and Australia, social media giant Facebook has rolled out its suicide prevention in Britain that allows users to notify it if a friend is in distress. Created in consultation with British charity Samaritans, the...
Net Neutrality: Facebook board member offensive tweet on ‘colonialism’ leaves Indians fuming
Delhi/Nagpur: Marc Andreessen is a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor. He has invested in startups like Foursquare, Twitter and GitHub that became huge companies. And he is also an investor in and on the board of Facebook. Maybe you have not heard...
Defeated by vigilant Indians , Facebook: 0, Net Neutrality: 1
Net Neutrality upheld by TRAI Nagpur: When our prime minister, Narendra Modi went to the US last September and had his 'blockbuster' public meetings, he had also met Mark Zuckerberg , Founder of Facebook, in Menlo Park. The venue of the...
Facebook turns 12, celebrates it as ‘Friends Day’
Facebook is giving friendship collages to its 1.6 billion users in celebration of the social network's 12th birthday. The collages will be packaged in video presentations of photos of friends and family that have been previously been posted on Facebook. The...
Estranged couple turns to Facebook to find new love, ends up meeting each other
Some unions, clearly, are not made in heaven. A squabbling couple which had gone their separate ways, unable to deal with unending fights, took to Facebook to find new love and a fresh start to their shattered lives. However, little did...
TRAI comes down hard on Facebook, calls Free Basics campaign ‘crudely majoritarian and orchestrated’
New Delhi/Nagpur: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made public a strongly worded letter (see below) addressed to Facebook countering allegations levied by the social media giant and criticising the manner in which the company made millions of...
Searching party place in your area…Facebook will help you!
Of course you love to party and know where to party around as you are among the most loving party animals in your vicinity, but what if we tell you that you are yet to discover more hangouts...? Don't be...
Facebook rolls out Instant Articles in India for the Android-frenzy market
Six months after the launch of its Instant Articles feature in US and western Europe, social media giant Facebook has finally made the unique tool available in India. Facebook has partnered with five of the leading publishers in the country...
What symbolic Ravan Effigy would you burn? ‘Whatsapp’ and Facebook’ Youngsters reply!
Nagpur: On Dashera, the effigy of Ravan is burnt publicly, with much fanfare all over India. We all know the story of how he kidnapped God Ram's wife Sita and then a war was fought to rescue her, at the...
Facebook expands freebies on Internet.org
Facebook Inc. has expanded its free basic Internet services under the Internet.org initiative in 19 countries, the company said in a blog post. “Starting today, more than one billion people who have access to Internet.org’s free basic services across...
