Everything Facebook Launched At F8 and Why
ay 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8...
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Facebook Founder And CEO Mark Zuckerberg Leaves The Company
Last year in June, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the company a new mission statement, it was too late for him to try to change how things worked at Facebook’s offices. While it wasn’t...
Zuckerberg Apologises For Data Breaches
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network “made mistakes” that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy. Cambridge...
One of the Men Who Got Rich Selling WhatsApp To Facebook Wants People To #deletefacebook
One of the men who got rich selling WhatsApp to Facebook wants people to #deletefacebook As Facebook faces fallout from a major scandal involving the use of its data by Cambridge Analytica,...
Is Social Media Causing Childhood Depression?
Rangan Chatterjee is a GP and says he has seen plenty of evidence of the link between mental ill-health in youngsters and their use of social media. One 16 year-old boy was referred to him after he...
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Thought Facebook Could ‘solve A Lot of Problems’ — But the World Is More Divided Than He Expected
* Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed Facebook’s role in society on the ‘Freakonomics Radio’ podcast. * Zuckerberg said his original goal was for Facebook to spread openness and foster...
Facebook Confirms Test of A Downvote Button For Flagging Comments
How can Facebook promote meaningful interaction between users? By letting them downvote inappropriate comments to hide them. Facebook is now testing a downvote button on a limited set of public Page...
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Becomes World’s Richest Person
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Thursday became the world's richest person, as a jump in the share price of the US tech giant enabled him to overtake Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Forbes magazine...
Facebook Profit Jumps As User Ranks Grow
Facebook on Wednesday reported that its quarterly profit leapt 71 percent from a year ago to $3.9 billion as it dished out money-making ads to its more than two billion users. Revenue in the...
Musk, Zuckerberg Duel Over Artificial Intelligence
Visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk and Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg were trading jabs on social media over artificial intelligence this week in a debate that has turned personal between the two...
Is A Facebook Phone In the Works?
Facebook could be working on a smartphone, according to paperwork recently spotted by cyber sleuths which the tech giant filed earlier this year. A Facebook unit devoted to hardware filed a patent...
Tamale Mayor To Meet Bill Clinton, Zuckerberg On US Investment Tour
Iddrisu Musah Superior, the Metropolitan Chief Executive Officer(MCE) of Tamale, Northern Regional capital, has arrived in Washington D. C, the United States on an investment tour. His decision to...
Facebook Hits Two Billion Users
More than a quarter of the world’s population now uses Facebook every month, the social network says. “As of this morning, the Facebook community is now officially two billion people,” founder...
Facebook Hits Two Billion User Mark
Facebook said Tuesday its ranks of monthly active users had hit the two billion mark -- meaning more than a quarter of the world's population is on the giant social network. "As of this morning, the...
A Plus Breaks Silence On Facebook Account Block
New Patriotic Party’s sympathizer, Kwame A Plus has said people jubilating over his suspension on Facebook should have a rethink because he is coming back stronger and rejuvenated. According to...
Kofi Annan, Patrick Awuah Among 100 Most Reputable People
Ghana’s Kofi Annan (a former UN Secretary General) and founder of the Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah, have been named among the 100 most reputable people on earth for the year 2017. South African...
Mark Zuckerberg Returns To Harvard To Collect Honorary Degree
Mark Zuckerberg teared up during his commencement speech to Harvard graduates, telling them it is up to their generation to care about others and to fight inequality. The billionaire CEO returned...
13 Years After Quitting, Zuckerberg Gets (honorary) Harvard Degree
Thirteen years after dropping out of Harvard University to work on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday finally got his degree -- well, sort of. Zuckerberg returned to the university where he...
Not Running For Office, But Wants ‘to Learn’
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg says he is not running for public office but is making a series of public appearances "to learn about people's hopes and challenges." The co-founder of the world's...
Dangote, Adenuga Richer Than Trump
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga, both Nigerians, are individually richer than American president and businessman Donald Trump. According to the 2017 Forbes rich list, Mr Dangote...