Articles tagged under: Facebook

Surti woman duped of Rs 50,000 promising an opportunity to meet Ratan Tata

July 20, 2022
Surti woman duped of Rs 50,000 promising an opportunity to meet Ratan Tata

Surat: A 45-yr-old woman employed as a technical staff at SVNIT in Surat has been duped of Rs 49,350 by fraudsters by creating a Facebook page of Ratan Tata Foundation and posing as the Personal Assistants of Ratan Tata and asking for the funds as fees for membership in order to meet India’s most respected industrialist in person. Jhankhanaben Ramanbhai Desai received a message on April 6, 2022, on her Facebook account from the Facebook page of Tata Foundation offering her an opportunity to...Read More

Need to convert small shops into digital storefronts: Isha and Akash Ambani in conversation with Meta

December 15, 2021

Mumbai: The directors of Reliance Jio Isha Ambani and Akash Ambani said that there is a need to convert the grocery shops into digital stores in the current time, in a virtual interview in Fuel for India 2021 program by Meta. Isha Ambani said that small businesses are the economic backbone of the country. The pandemic brought home the truth that small merchant shops, retailers, and small businesses urgently needed to convert their physical brick and mortar stores to digital storefronts. Akas...Read More

Mark Zuckerberg and Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani converse at Facebook Fuel for India virtual event

December 15, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg and Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani converse at Facebook Fuel for India virtual event

Transcript of conversation between Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook and Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, Chairman & Managing Director, Reliance Industries   Mark:  Thank you everyone for joining us today. I am sorry that we can't do this together in person, but we're excited to host the first-ever Facebook Fuel event in India. India is a very special and important country for us. Millions of people here use our products every day to stay in touch with friends and family. Whether it's a W...Read More

Facebook to invest Rs. 43,574 crore in Jio for 9.99% stake; largest FDI for minority investment in India

April 22, 2020

Mumbai: Reliance Industries Limited (“Reliance Industries”), Jio Platforms Limited (“Jio Platforms”) and Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) today announced the signing of binding agreements for an investment of ₹ 43,574 crore by Facebook into Jio Platforms. This investment by Facebook values Jio Platforms at ₹ 4.62 lakh crore pre-money enterprise value ($65.95 billion, assuming a conversion rate of ₹ 70 to a US Dollar). Facebook’s investment will translate into a 9.99% equi...Read More

Facebook statement on removal of certain pages/accounts run from India and Pakistan

April 01, 2019
Facebook statement on removal of certain pages/accounts run from India and Pakistan

Gandhinagar: Facebook has today in a statement said it has killed over 500 pages/accounts run by Congress IT cell. Facebook has also removed Pakistani Army run pages/accounts.   Highlights of statement by Facebook on removal of pages/accounts from India and Pakistan   By Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy We have removed Pages, Groups and accounts for violating Facebook’s policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior or spam. Today’s action includes fo...Read More

In case you are serious about “#deletefacebook” a company headquartered in India has to offer you a smooth exit

March 22, 2018
In case you are serious about “#deletefacebook” a company headquartered in India has to offer you a smooth exit

Ahmedabad: The recent sting operation carried out by Britain's’ Channel 4 on the now terminated CEO Alexander Nix of Cambridge Analytica has shaken the political systems across the globe. The sting operation revealed how Cambridge Analytica procured personal data from the facebook users in the US and used it to influence users with specific behavioural pattern to vote in the favor of the current Trump Government. Alexander Nix categorically mentioned how facebook sold this data to them and tha...Read More

Facebook now available on Jiophone

February 13, 2018
Facebook now available on Jiophone

Mumbai: Starting tomorrow, Facebook will be available on the JioPhone, India ka smartphone, said a note issued by Reliance Jio. This new version of the Facebook app is built specially for Jio KaiOS, a web based operating system designed for JioPhone, so that its users get the best experience of Facebook. The app is optimized to accommodate the cursor function on JioPhone. This will open up Facebook for potential 50 Crore feature phone users in India, said company. “JioPhone is the world�...Read More

Zuckerberg to hold Townhall meet in New Delhi on October 28

October 16, 2015

From Lalit K Jha Washington Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Question and Answer session at IIT-Delhi later this month to connect with Indians, whom he described as "one of our most active and engaged communities" on the social media. "More than 130 million people use Facebook in India. I'm looking forward to hearing directly from one of our most active and engaged communities," Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook post, wherein he announced to be hosting his next Townha...Read More

Facebook may add ‘Reactions’ to ‘Like’ button

October 08, 2015

Ahmedabad Facebook is going to introduce the new "reactions" button like love, haha, wow and yay by adding the emoji-like symbols, to start with only two countries - Spain and Ireland to gauge reaction before rolling out the same more broadly. "As you can see, it’s not a 'dislike' button, though we hope it addresses the spirit of this request more broadly," said Chris Cox, Facebook's product chief to USA Today. The buttons will show up when you press and hold the "like" button on mo...Read More

I will write in Gujarati: Modi tells Zuckerberg at Facebook Wall

September 28, 2015

San Jose I will write in Gujarati: Narendra Modi told Mark Zuckerberg before writing a message on Facebook wall at Facebook Headquarters in San Jose, California. Zuckerberg responded, "yes please". The message written in Gujarati by Shri Modi contained three slogans: Ahimsa Paramo Dharm, Satyameva Jayate, Vande Mataram. Modi explained it to Zuckerberg. Here ended Modi's visit to Facebook headquarters. It should be mentioned here that be it in India or outside, Modi's signature is always...Read More