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Meta, Microsoft, others join forces to tackle Google
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Meta, Microsoft, others join forces to tackle Google

Alex Omenye A group founded by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom, and data from developers may be able to create their own maps to compete with Google Maps and Apple Maps. The Overture Maps Foundation is an organization that was established last year. The group just made available its first open map dataset. With the […]

Mark Zuckerberg beats Elon Musk in billionaire rankings
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Facebook hits 3bn monthly active users

Facebook has more than 3 billion active monthly users, according to the most recent quarterly data from Meta. There were 3.88 billion monthly active users across the entire family of Meta apps, which also includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and the recently released Threads. That is over half of all people on the planet. In comparison […]

Facebook to shut down news tab in US, Australia
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Australia fines Facebook $14m for data gathering

A court in Australia ordered Facebook owner Meta to pay a total of A$20 million ($14 million) in fines for secretly gathering user data through a smartphone software that was marketed as a privacy protector. The decision on Wednesday concerned Onavo, a virtual private network service that the business, then known as Facebook, provided from […]

WhatsApp unveils feature to allow users create unnamed groups
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WhatsApp back up after global outage

Instant messaging platform, WhatsApp is back up after a massive outage Wednesday, which left billions of users in distress. The downtime of the Meta-owned app affected users’ ability to contact friends and family on a global scale. “We are working quickly to resolve the connectivity issues on WhatsApp and we’ll update you here as soon […]

Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks
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Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks

Twitter’s latest rival, Instagram’s Threads, announced on Monday that it has tightened rate limits due to spam attacks. Instagram head Adam Mosseri explained the spam problem in a post on the Threads saying, “Spam attacks have picked up so we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to […]

Facebook to shut down news tab in US, Australia
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Norway to fine Meta $100k over privacy concerns

Norway’s regulator has threatened to fine Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, one million crowns ($100,000) every day for privacy violations. “It is so clear that this is illegal that we need to intervene now and immediately. We cannot wait any longer,” the head of Datatilsynet’s international section, Tobias Judin, told Reuters. […]

Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges
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Meta blocks access to Threads through VPN – Report

Meta’s Threads app, has disclosed its preventing access to the platform with the use of a virtual private network. According to Techcrunch, the disclosure is coming after receiving numerous complaints from users in the EU who were unable to access the platform. Threads was recently released by Meta, however, due to privacy issues, it is […]

Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls
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Meta unveils new avatar feature for IG, messenger video calls

The parent company of Instagram and Messenger, Meta has made an exciting announcement, introducing a new real-time Avatar feature for video calls. In a recent blog post, Meta shared that users can now utilize their Avatars during video calls on both Instagram and Messenger. These Avatars, which bear a resemblance to Apple’s Memoji avatars, will […]

Meta’s Threads closes in on X with 400m monthly users
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Meta to add branded content tools to Threads

Meta’s Instagram intends to integrate its branded content tools with Threads, according to Reuters. While advertising is not available, these technologies will assist advertisers in collaborating with influencers on paid partnerships on the social media site. The announcement follows Threads, largely regarded as Elon Musk’s Twitter’s rival, reaching 100 million users in a record-breaking five […]

Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage
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Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage

Meta Platforms, the parent company of popular social media apps Instagram and Facebook, as well as messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter competitor, Threads, is reportedly back after a global outage. The platform experienced a temporary outage on Monday, affecting thousands of users. According to Downdetector.com, the outage lasted over an hour and impacted approximately 14,000 […]

Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks
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Meta to label government account on Threads

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has revealed its plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its newly launched Twitter-like platform, Threads, according to an executive’s statement during an Australian inquiry on foreign interference. Meta’s head of public policy for Australia, Josh Machin, expressed the company’s intentions to implement labels for state-affiliated media […]

US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement
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US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement

Authors Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, and comedian Sarah Silverman are suing OpenAI and Meta in a US district court on separate counts of copyright infringement. The lawsuits claim, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on datasets containing their works that were obtained illegally. They claim these datasets were obtained from […]