On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups
Today’s startups have a distinct advantage when it comes to launching a company because of the public cloud. You don’t have to build infrastructure or worry about what happens when… Read more »
Category: Facebook
Snap is channeling Asia’s messaging giants with its move into gaming
Snap is taking a leaf out of the Asian messaging app playbook as its social messaging service enters a new era. The company unveiled a series of new strategies that… Read more »
Australia passes law to hold social media companies responsible for “abhorrent violent material”
On Thursday, Australia lawmakers ushered through what is perhaps the toughest legal measures to hold social media companies accountable for the content they share. Only a few weeks after the… Read more »
Inquiry launched into data use from no-deal Brexit ads on Facebook
Investigation follows revelations of Lynton Crosby firm running ad campaign calling voters to lobby MPs The information commissioner’s office will use its legal powers to obtain information from Facebook about… Read more »
Facebook gets one step closer to building your virtual copy
When it comes to representing yourself on social media, who you actually portray yourself as has always been a bit of a caricature. That thinking has always made it a… Read more »
Researchers find 540 million Facebook user records on exposed servers
Security researchers have found hundreds of millions of Facebook user records sitting on an inadvertently public storage server. The two batches of user records were collected and exposed from two… Read more »
‘Grassroots’ Facebook Brexit ads secretly run by staff of Lynton Crosby firm
Exclusive: ‘grassroots’ groups that spent up to £1m on targeted Facebook ads share administrator who works for lobbying firm A series of hugely influential Facebook advertising campaigns that appear to… Read more »
Google reshuffles its leadership in Asia Pacific
There’s a changing of the guard within Google’s Asia Pacific business. In recent weeks, personnel changes within two of its most important roles show the search giant is entering a… Read more »
India’s Mswipe raises $30M to grow its smart point-of-sale terminal business
Mswipe, an Indian fintech company that develops point-of-sale terminals for merchants, has pulled $30 million in new funding as it bids to triple its reach to 1.5 million merchants over… Read more »
New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”
Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” to News Feeds. Similar to “Why am I seeing this ad?,” which has appeared… Read more »
Labour is selling 17.4m Brits who voted for Brexit down the river to get into No10
Red for danger DECEITFUL and dishonest. That’s the only verdict we can deliver on the Labour party. They claim to vote down Theresa May’s Brexit deal in the national interest…. Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg actually calls for regulation of content, elections, privacy
It’s been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site’s silence around the Christchurch massacre, and now Mark Zuckerberg is calling on governments… Read more »
Sheryl Sandberg says Facebook is ‘exploring’ restrictions following Christchurch attacks
In an open letter published by the New Zealand Herald, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg finally addressed the shocking mass shootings that left 50 dead at two Christchurch mosques. The first… Read more »
HUD hits Facebook with housing discrimination charges over ad targeting
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this morning hit Facebook with charges of housing discrimination. The filing states that the the online giant has violated the Fair Housing… Read more »
Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups
Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls. This program now also provides customers who are… Read more »
Dakar Network Angels begins startup investments in francophone Africa
The Dakar Network Angels group launched this month, making its first investment in francophone Africa to cleantech venture Coliba. The Ivorian startup—that uses a mobile app to coordinate waste recycling—will… Read more »
Facebook and Instagram ban posts about white nationalism and white separatism in extremism crackdown
FACEBOOK and Instagram have banned posts about white nationalism and white separatism in bid to put a stop to extremism on its apps. The decision comes after social media sites… Read more »
The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’
Apple doesn’t care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That’s why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. They’re rendering their own subscription options unnecessary in… Read more »
Cross-border fintech startup Airwallex raises $100M at a valuation of over $1B
Australia-based Airwallex is the latest tech startup to enter the billion-dollar ‘unicorn club.’ The company announced today that it has closed a $100 million Series C round that values its… Read more »
What’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and 13 other ad networks?
Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He also writes at Julian.com…. Read more »
Girlfriend sparks real life ‘Where’s Wally’ hunt at Disney World after asking thousands of online strangers to help find her missing boyfriend
A YOUNG woman visiting Walt Disney World sparked a real life version of Where’s Wally? after she turned to Facebook for help tracking down her lost boyfriend. Brittany Blake and… Read more »
EU gov’t and public health sites lousy with adtech, study finds
A study of tracking cookies running on government and public sector health websites in the European Union has found commercial adtech to be operating pervasively even in what should be… Read more »
Brexiteers must accept the reality and back Mrs May’s deal or Brexit is in peril
Back her deal MAKE no mistake: though the penny is dropping for many Tory backbenchers, Brexit is still very much in peril. The news that Labour will back the ‘Kyle… Read more »
Facebook removed 1.5m videos of New Zealand terror attack in first 24 hours
Site says it will remove any clip featuring gunman’s footage even if that would not normally break its rules Facebook removed 1.5m copies of the video of the New Zealand… Read more »
This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
In recent years, data analysts have gone from optional to a career that holds great promise, but demand for quantitative skills applied in business decisions has raced ahead of supply… Read more »
Daily Crunch: Social media struggles with shooting tragedy
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you… Read more »
Facebook says its new AI technology can detect ‘revenge porn’
Facebook on Friday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that it says will help the social network detect revenge porn — the nonconsensually shared intimate images that, when posted online,… Read more »
Facebook won’t store data in countries with human rights violations — except Singapore
As soon as Mark Zuckerberg said in a lengthy 3,225-word blog post to not build data centers in countries with poor human rights, he had already broken his promise. He… Read more »
The “splinternet” is already here
Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and former Senior Vice President… Read more »
Is Facebook down? Huge Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp outage CONFIRMED
FACEBOOK, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are down for millions of users around the world in a major outage that is causing panic on the web. Users have said they… Read more »