Facebook owner Meta is preparing cutbacks in its Reality Labs division, during a weekly Q&A session. The division takes care of strategies to refocus on hardware products. The company is not planning any layoffs.Read More
Google is rolling out a new feature for YouTube Shorts. With the newly launched Green Screen feature, creators can include a short video segment from another user’s YouTube video or Shorts video when creating new Shorts content.Read More
WhatsApp has started identifying “legal” names of users who have signed up for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based payments feature. These names will also be shared with people who receive payments through WhatsApp.Read More
Shares of Tesla and Twitter have tumbled this week as investors deal with the fallout and potential legal issues surrounding Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,100 crore) bid to buy the social media platform.Read More
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media companies should act to blunt the effect of false information in this year’s US midterm congressional elections, requests rights groups. After the 2020 presidential race won by US Democratic President Joe Biden, several social media platforms backed away from designing policies to fight election disinformation.Read More
Twitter has confirmed that two senior executives are heading for the exit and it has paused most hiring, as Elon Musk stands poised to become the global messaging platform’s new owner, according to a company spokesperson.Read More
WhatsApp is reportedly testing chat filters for all users. The feature, which provides an easy way to find certain chats, was previously exclusive to business accounts.Read More
Four Democratic US lawmakers have asked the CEOs of YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook owner Meta to archive content that can be produced as an evidence of suspected Russian war crimes in Ukraine.Read More
Elon Musk said on Friday his $44-billion (roughly Rs. 3,40,710 crore) acquisition of Twitter was temporarily on hold, citing pending details on spam and fake accounts.Read More
Twitter deal is temporarily on hold, Elon Musk said in a tweet posted on Friday. While the exact reason is yet to be revealed, Musk said that the decision was on the amount of spam and fake accounts on the platform.Read More