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Tencent Holdings is in talks with Meta Platforms to distribute its Meta Quest line of virtual reality headsets in China, three people familiar with the matter said. The talks between Tencent and Meta started last year and have continued in recent months, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of the matter, adding … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta has temporarily fought off a lawsuit in the UK over allegations it abused its dominant position to monetise users’ personal data. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 45 million Facebook users in Britain and valued at up to $3.7 billion.However, the claimants’ lawyers can “have another go” at establishing any alleged … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, officially announced the new Broadcast Channel feature for Instagram via an official blog post. For those unaware, the Broadcast Channel feature is a public channel created by content creators on the platform to interact and engage with their followers and share their activities, projects and more. The blog post also confirms that Meta … Read more
Instagram has evolved from just being photo and video sharing platform. It now also let users create Reels, increase followers and also engage with their followers. The platform also let content creators go live to engage and interact with the followers. That being said, it offers a slew of tools for content creators to engage … Read more
Amid all the chaos on your ever-changing Facebook and Instagram feed, Meta wants you to pay not to fix your feed but for the blue badge, the one you see next to your favourite influencer. Yes, even you can have it now. As if it was not meta enough, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s co-founder and CEO, … Read more
Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that enables users to comment on posts with animated images, or GIFs. Users can search for GIFs and pull them from GIPHY to post them as a reply in the comments section.Media reports suggest that the feature is rolled out to only a handful of users. Some have … Read more
WhatsApp for iOS is receiving an update that will allow iPhone owners to multitask on their phone while on a video call. Unlike the Android version of the app, which has supported multi-tasking while on video calls for ages, WhatsApp for iOS would pause a user’s video stream when the app was minimised or the user … Read more
Apple, the only Big Tech company that avoided mass layoffs, has started laying off third-party contractors, a report has said, adding that firing contractors is a move to cut costs.Citing people with direct knowledge, The New York Post reported that the iPhone maker has quietly started to cut ties with hundreds of contractors. “Instead of … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has launched ‘Channels’ – a new broadcast chat feature. The feature will let creators share messages with their followers and engage with them.Zuckerberg announced the feature by creating a channel and named it “Meta Channel”. Instagram is starting to test channels with select creators in the US today. … Read more
Alphabet’s Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter face stricter EU online content rules according to monthly user numbers published by the companies on Thursday which exceeded the EU threshold. The new rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA) labels companies with more than 45 million users as very large online platforms and subject … Read more