Facebook recruits Nokia to trial and standardise Terragraph wireless tech
Facebook hopes to get parts of its Terragraph wireless comms platform standardised by the IEEE, and has recruited Nokia to help. Terragraph is a big part of Facebook's plan to connect the “next four billion” to Facebook the Internet using the 60 GHz band. First announced in April 2016, the …
With Tastemade, Facebook Watch shows emerge in the UK
Facebook Watch, the platform's destination for longer-form video, has yet to roll out in the U.K., but that hasn't stopped food video giant Tastemade creating “Feral Cook,” a five-minute show for Watch in the U.K. According to the publisher, two more shows for the U.K. market are in development and …
ACCC will have power to grill Google and Facebook on threat to news media
The competition regulator will have the power to compel Google and Facebook to answer wide-ranging questions about their use of personal data and the cost to news media of their dominance of Australian advertising dollars. The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, … Read More
Police move to stop criminals using Facebook buy and sell pages
Everything from stolen cigarettes and repackaged illegal meat to drug deals are being traded on both open and member-only Facebook pages. Police say some criminals are using their children's Facebook profiles to hide their identities, while others use pseudonyms and gang names. Users post a … Read More
Chris Hughes Made Millions at Facebook. Now He Has a Plan to End Poverty.
As he relates in his new book, “Fair Shot,” he co-founded Facebook, asked his roommate Mark Zuckerberg for 10 percent of the company, received 2 percent instead and became dynastically wealthy as a result. Hughes is acutely aware of how unfair this is. “Most Americans cannot find $400 in the …
Page admins bear brunt of security on Facebook sales groups
Facebook has quickly joined the likes of Trade Me and eBay as a massive online trading hub. And with no membership costs or success fees, the social media giant is proving a cheap and popular alternative to existing platforms. Tens of thousands of Kiwis are joining buy, sell and trade …
What is Vero? The Anti-Facebook App Sees an Adoption Bloom
Adoption of a new mobile social platform seemed to bloom over the weekend. Vero, whose tag line is “less social media, more social life,” saw version 1.0 of the app hit the Apple App Store on April 30 of last year, but experienced a surge in sign-ups over the weekend …
Inquiry finds children being pushed to brink by social media bullying; tech giants doing little
In evidence to the inquiry, Facebook said it focused on anti-bullying measures and takes extra precautions for teenagers. “For example, our anti-bullying policy makes clear we remove content that appears to purposefully target private individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them,” the … Read More
Facebook considers AIB’s HQ as campus for 5000 workers
Social media group Facebook is considering building more than 700,000 sq ft of offices that could house 5,000 workers at a high-profile Dublin site, the Sunday Business Post reported. The US multi-national was recently said to be looking at taking 450,000 sq ft at the AIB Bank Centre in Ballsbridge, … …
With One Tweet, Kylie Jenner May Have Made Facebook’s Stock Rise
Kylie Jenner, famous for being the sister of someone famous for being famous, proved that with a few taps at her phone she could seriously shake up the tech world. On Wednesday, she tweeted that she barely uses Snapchat, presumably in the wake of its poorly-received redesign. And the next …