Big tech companies and the Chinese and US governments are embroiled in a complicated relationship of harmony and conflict. We are all at the mercy of the consequences. “Simply put, they have a lot of power,” US Congressman David Cicillain said of American Big Tech at a 2020 congressional hearing. In the same year, the […]
Mark Zuckerberg shared a selfie on Facebook at the opening of Meta’s first store in California Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has become a target for jokes and memes on social media after he uploaded a group selfie in April, but with a twist. On April 25, Zuckerberg shared the selfie on Facebook to mark the […]
US-based technology industry body ITI, a member of global tech firms such as Google, Facebook, IBM and Cisco, has sought amendments to the Indian government’s directive on reporting incidents of cyber security breaches. ITI said the provisions under the new mandate could adversely affect organizations and could undermine cyber security in the country. ITI’s country […]
Social media platform Facebook (Now Meta) on Thursday filed its reply in the Delhi High Court on a petition related to suspension of social media accounts. META said that it is a private entity and does not discharge public functions and hence the jurisdiction of the High Court cannot be invoked against it. META opposed […]
Opening May 9, the store is located in the Silicon Valley city of Burlingame, California. Burlingame, California: Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc on Wednesday gave an early glimpse of its first physical store, which has floor-to-ceiling screens to show games on its virtual reality headsets and rooms for testing video calling devices. Opening May 9, […]
Europe’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, the architect of landmark rules to curb the power of US tech giants, on Thursday called for a global approach to Big Tech to stop companies from taking advantage of enforcement gaps. Vestager, who has fined Alphabet’s Google billions of euros and launched investigations into Apple, Amazon and meta platform […]
Neeraj Arora was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp. One of the most talked about deals in the world of technology is the acquisition of instant messaging platform WhatsApp by Meta (erstwhile Facebook). The $22 billion deal shook the tech landscape and changed the way the world communicated. After Facebook completed its acquisition of the […]
Facebook owner Meta Platforms on Wednesday gave an early glimpse of its first physical store, which has floor-to-ceiling screens to show games on its virtual reality headsets and rooms for testing video calling devices. Opening May 9, the store is located on the main campus of Meta’s Reality Labs unit in the Silicon Valley city […]
Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, teased a new smart glasses project with EssilorLuxottica on Wednesday, posting a photo of the eyewear company’s president sporting a prototype of a neural interface wristband — which can be used to connect other devices. was designed to guide. “Here’s Leonardo using a prototype of our neural interface EMG (electromyography) […]
Germany’s cartel office said Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. has “paramount to compete in markets”, a classification that gives the regulator more leeway to curb digital companies’ market power. Under legislation introduced by German lawmakers in early 2021, the cartel office could ban anti-competitive activities. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, operates a robust, […]