Facebook has told employees to stay out of China amid the coronavirus outbreak as the feds warned Americans to rethink their travel plans to that country. The social-media giant has told staffers to halt non-essential travel to the Chinese mainland to avert the spread of the disease, which has killed more than 100 people and […]

In three months and halfway through their programme, startups participating in the second season of the Facebook Accelerator Programme have raised over $500,000 from investments and grants.

Facebook is “backing away” from earlier plans to sell ads for placement inside its enormously popular WhatsApp messaging service. According to The Wall Street Journal, the team that had been working on building ads into WhatsApp was disbanded in recent months, with their work subsequently “deleted from WhatsApp’s code.” ALSO READ: Facebook, eBay crackdown on scammers […]

Facebook and eBay pledged Wednesday to more aggressively tackle scammers trading fake and misleading product reviews in new agreements with British regulators. The companies have cracked down on people seeking to get paid for penning bogus reviews on shopping and review websites since the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority raised concerns about the problem […]

Shares of Facebook (FB.O), which have been doggedly crawling their way back from a historic slump after lapses in users’ privacy sparked fears of lower profits, on Friday struck an intra-day record high for the first time in over a year. Facebook briefly rose 0.72% to touch $219.88 at mid-day, its highest level ever, before […]

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has ditched his annual new year’s resolutions for a long-term list of goals and predictions that he posted on the social network, including a virtual reality boom and an emphasis on community. In previous years the entrepreneur has pledged to learn a language, eat only meat from animals he killed himself, […]

Facebook Inc said on Thursday, ahead of the U.S. presidential election that it was making some changes to its approach to political ads, including allowing users to turn off certain ad-targeting tools. However, the updates stop far short of critics’ demands and what rival companies have pledged to do. The world’s biggest social network has […]

A powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake shook Puerto Rico today just a day after a weaker quake destroyed the island’s famed Playa Ventana rock formation. The shallow quake with a depth of 4.3 miles, which hit just south of Indios in the south west of the island, has not caused a significant Tsunami threat, according to the […]

An Armenian man has been arrested for releasing “false information” on Facebook claiming the country’s prime minister had congratulated Donald Trump for killing Iran’s top general, the security service said Monday. According to Business Standard, “On January 2, the Facebook page ‘Diana Arutyunyan’ published information according to which Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan congratulated the United […]

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, yesterday alleged that Nigerian Government is faking his Facebook page and using it to sponsor attacks, while also colluding with Facebook Nigeria in removing his followers and reducing the reactions to his post.