Facebook privacy violation lawsuit bogged down in Austria
VIENNA (Reuters) – Facebook presented a long list of procedural objections to an Austrian court on Thursday trying to halt a class action lawsuit for 25,000 users that accuses the social media giant of...
View ArticleNet neutrality – is Facebook a ‘basic service?’
Facebook has tried to head off the perceived conflict between it Internet.org platform and Net Neutrality by opening up the platform to third-party developers. In a video blog post (here) Facebook CEO...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wrapper – 8 May
Tony Poulos and Alex Leslie wrapping up the week by ranting about the most interesting and unusual stories on DisruptiveViews – from the EU’s attempts to create a Single Digital Market, to the...
View ArticleFacebook to launch ‘Instant Articles’ to inject news
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network’s mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let...
View ArticleFacebook ‘tramples European privacy law’
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium’s privacy watchdog accused Facebook on Friday of trampling on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodging questions from national...
View ArticleAre you wasting one day per week on Facebook?
How much time are you spending on Facebook? Users in Australia are, on average, spending the equivalent of a full working day on the social networking service each week, a new survey shows. Read full...
View ArticleGuess who is winning in the advertising arena?
We might think that the communications arena is changing fast. We might think that banking is undergoing the biggest disruption in its existence. We might wonder at the sheer scale of connections being...
View ArticleSocial media to become monitors of ‘terrorist activity’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Social media operators such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube would have to notify federal authorities of online “terrorist activity,” according to the text of a bill approved by...
View ArticleOne year on – is internet.org a success?
A Facebook press release out today is upbeat about the success of its internet.org programme in Africa but, as usual, it seems it is our role to ask the tricky questions. At first glance, it certainly...
View ArticleFacebook – your private life in public? Not in Germany
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe. The Hamburg data...
View ArticleFacebook still the social media favourite amongst investors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors in social media shares have zeroed-in on Facebook Inc, piling into stock options to add bullish bets on the company in the days ahead of its Wednesday earnings. Facebook...
View ArticleThe era of mass marketing is over
The era of mass marketing is on its knees and could be dead and buried within a generation, according to Google and Facebook, who say the shift to the mobile web and micro-marketing will become the...
View ArticleIndia proving a challenge for Facebook advertising revenues
SAN FRANCISCO/MUMBAI, August 12 (Reuters) – Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free email support for questions about advertising and advice on increasing...
View ArticleFacebook strides into Africa aboard mobile bandwagon
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Facebook has nearly 20 million users in major African markets Nigeria and Kenya, statistics released by the social network showed on Thursday, with the majority using mobile...
View ArticleMerkel says Facebook needs to do more against racist posts
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Facebook to do more against racist comments and hate posts, in comments due to be published in a regional newspaper on Friday. Germany is...
View ArticleFacebook Instagram purchase looking increasingly smart
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Instagram now has more than 400 million users, the company announced Tuesday, making it far larger than rival Twitter Inc with 100 million more users. The photo-sharing app...
View ArticleZuckerberg, celebrities, want Internet for All (by 2020)
UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and a host of celebrities kicked off a campaign on Saturday to make Internet access universal, saying this was critical to...
View ArticleFacebook eyes TV advertising audience
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc introduced a slate of new advertising products on Sunday, most of which are aimed at luring television advertisers onto the 1.5-billion user social network. The...
View ArticleThe Facebook paradox – free, basic and hungry as ever
It is really quite hard to make sense of Facebook. It started life as a social network. Given his time again, Mark Zuckerberg would have designed it as a mobile app (so he said at Mobile World Congress...
View ArticleFacebook makes customers profile richer
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc rolled out updates to mobile profile pages to enable users to better personalize their profile and more easily control their privacy settings. Facebook has sought...
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