Facebook Inc will expand its pattern recognition software to other countries after successful tests in the U.S. to detect users with suicidal intent, the world’s largest social media network said on Monday. Facebook began testing the software in the United States in March, when the company started scanning the text of Facebook posts and comments for phrases that could be signals of an impending suicide.

Social media platform, Facebook has unfolded plans to train no fewer than 50,000 Nigerians, including students, small and medium enterprise owners among others in digital skills.

Lagos – Facebook is set to open its first community hub in Nigeria to encourage innovation. The hub is to be known as “NG_Hub from Facebook’’. Facebook’s Head of Platform Partnerships, Middle East and Africa, Mr Emeka Afigbo, made this known during a news conference on Wednesday in Lagos. Afigbo said that Facebook would open […]

POPULAR social media platform Facebook, stunned Nigerian businessmen last week when it initiated a council for Startups and Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs in Nigeria. This is what the small businesses have been yearning to have either from the government or many large business organisations scattered all over Nigeria.

IN its continuing bid to  help boost small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, Facebook, last week, launched the Nigerian SME Council, first of its kind in the continent.

POPULAR social media platform and tech company, Facebook, is encouraging a healthy and positive battle among African entrepreneurs, developers and tech start-ups on three fronts: Social good; productivity and utility; and gaming and entertainment.

Facebook on Monday said it will hire more than 1,000 people to thwart deceptive ads crafted to knock elections off course.

Revelations about fake Facebook accounts that smeared candidates in Austria’s election race have dealt a severe blow to social democratic Chancellor Christian Kern’s efforts to prevent a shift to the right at the Oct. 15 parliamentary vote.

Russia’s internet watchdog on Tuesday warned Facebook it would be banned in 2018 unless it complies with a law on storing local users’ data.

Google and Facebook may face higher tax bills in Europe as the EU rushed Saturday to change rules so that more of Silicon Valley’s mega profits fall into public coffers.