Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat was quoted as saying that its daily average users in the region during the fourth quarter of 2017 rose five per cent from the prior quarter to 80 million.
According to the patent, the social media giant wants to build a system that collects users' personal data, such as education, homeownership and internet usage, in order to predict their socio-economic status.
In an investors' call, CEO Sundar Pichai said that Google would be "making significant investments in offices across nine states, including Colorado and Michigan".
The issue seemed to have started just before 1 pm (ET) and 6.30 pm (IST) on Thursday.
Confused Facebook and Instagram users took to microblogging site Twitter to find out if the sites had really crashed or they were facing local issues.
“Facebook and Google have popularized scurrilous news sources through algorithms that are profitable for these platforms but inherently unreliable,” Murdoch said.
"The last thing we do when we make decisions like this is look at it with a political lens," Pichai said.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, Zuckerberg said it’s important that News Feed promotes high-quality news that helps build a sense of common ground for its over two billion users.
Reacting to the report, Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos tweeted: "Read the Wired article about WhatsApp -- scary headline! But there is no secret way into WhatsApp groups chats. The article makes a few key points."
The study, conducted by the ‘Consumer Voice’, has also concluded that consumers are not able to distinguish among poor, average and good quality of service.
Earlier this month, Google had warned Amazon that it would pull the YouTube app from Fire TV devices on January 1, if the two firms could not come to an agreement on the access of Google's apps on Fire TV devices.
The investigation reported by ProPublica this week showed that in one case Facebook censors, called content reviewers, approved a picture of a corpse with the statement "the only good muslim is a f...... dead one" .
The Internet subscriber base is comprised of broadband Internet subscriber base of 324.89 million and narrowband Internet subscriber base of 104.34 million.
Facebook said it ran a small test to help new users understand how to sign up to the social network with their real name and connect with their friends and family.
Select users across India can see a message encouraging them to register on social networking site with their Aadhaar name on sign up page so that friends can find them easily.
In a series of Facebook posts, the man explained that his wife did not want to go for her last smear test and kept postponing it. He urged women to never make such a mistake.
Besides restricting unwanted contact from another account, Facebook's latest tools also allow users to ignore and move a Messenger conversation out of their inbox, without having to block the sender.
The watchdog considered that the data transfer for "business intelligence" purpose is not based on the legal basis required by the Data Protection Act for any processing.
The Indian government and law enforcement agencies requested information on 13,752 user accounts for which "some data" was produced in 54% of the cases in the January-June 2017 period, Facebook said.
The US Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet.
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