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Facebook blames Apple iOS for Bezos' phone breach, says WhatsApp unhackable

Investigators believe that Bezos's iPhone was compromised after he received a 4.4MB video file containing malware via WhatsApp

RS panel suggests breaking encryption to curb child pornograhy distribution

The recommendations assume significance in view of the ongoing battle between the government and WhatsApp over encryption.

Facebook appoints Avinash Pant as marketing director for India operations

Pant comes with 22 years of experience working with consumer brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, The Walt Disney Company, and most recently, Red Bull

How Facebook's Libra prodded central banks to study digital currencies

The central banks of Britain, the euro zone, Japan, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland announced a plan to share experiences to look at the case for issuing digital currencies

From Facebook to Twitter: How social media platforms handle political ads

The following is how social media platforms have decided to handle false or misleading claims in political ads

IT happens: Facebook sorry for Jinping's name gaffe, cites technical glitch

The error most notably appeared on the official Facebook page of Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi

To correct Facebook's errors, this guy wants to take away Instagram 'likes'

But making likes private will be a major shift for Instagram's more than 1 billion users, for whom daily assessment of one another's popularity has become like breathing

Facebook must disclose app records for Massachusetts probe, judge rules

Cambridge's clients had included U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign

Roku suffers worst week since debut as media-streaming wars spook investors

The promise of growth that has attracted investors to the Los Gatos, California-based company also drove its stock to lofty valuations

How big tech is turning New York into a city that rivals Silicon Valley

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google will soon have 20,000 workers in the city, many in a cluster of offices on the West Side

Year in Review: How world's top 10 business personalities fared in 2019

The year 2019, a breakthrough year for business, saw both fortunes being built and destroyed. Business Standard lists top 10 business personalities from across the globe who made headlines in 2019

Give infrastructure status to data centres, technology firms press DPIIT

Practical issues such as the difficulties in combining two data centres that may be close to each other (such as permissions required from the telecom ministry and other departments) were discussed

'Techlash' hits college campuses

"There was this ambient glow of being part of a company that was changing the world," Stapleton said. "I was totally googly-eyed about it."

While shuttered at home, China looks to exploits social media abroad

Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms have tried for years without success to be allowed into the lucrative Chinese market

Despite its positives, social media can be used to spread falsehoods

Social media messaging has its positives but, being far faster than traditional ways of communication, it can be used to spread destructive falsehoods and distortions

Facebook's Zuckerberg drops annual challenges to focus on longer-term goals

The move would see him focus more on his role as CEO and the problems that have afflicted Facebook

Facebook says it won't back down from allowing lies in political ads

In this presidential election year, no big changes are planned in policies governing political advertising

Relief for tech cos as change in proposed digital content norms on cards

Since 2017, rumour-mongering on social media has been blamed for mob attacks that killed 30 people across the country

Did Facebook help Trump get elected? Firm's senior executive says so

He went on to say that, since Facebook has the same ad policies in place now, the outcome of the 2020 election could be the same as it was four years ago

Facebook's privacy checkup tool gets 4 new security features: Details here

The Privacy Checkup tool has been live since 2014 and the new version is rolling out globally this week