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Meta pauses hirings after mass layoffs, no longer listing remote positions

After laying off 21,000 employees in two job cut rounds, Meta is further looking to cut costs, and has reportedly plans to lower bonus payouts for some workers in its 'Year of Efficiency'

WhatsApp rolling out new text editor for beta testers on Android beta

Beta users can change the text background colour, making it simpler for them to differentiate important text from the rest

In a bid to cut costs, Meta looking to trim employee bonus payouts

After laying off 21,000 employees in two job cut rounds, Meta (formerly Facebook) is further looking to cut costs, and has reportedly plans lower bonus payouts for some workers

Meta 'optimistic and excited' about India, says Sandhya Devanathan

Amid the grim global economic scenario, social media platform Facebook's parent firm Meta sees resilience in India although it will not be immune to international events and the company is optimistic about the prospects in the country, company country Head and Vice-President, Sandhya Devanathan said on Tuesday. The company will continue to develop India specific products and innovations to tap the huge opportunity provided by digitisation here, she said while speaking at the Times Network India Digital Fest here. "The news is grim, isn't it? Like anytime you see there's a bank failing, be it SVB or Credit Suisse, interest rates are rising that causes more turmoil in the market, capital markets (are) drying up, VC funding drying up... So, I think the macroeconomic situation suddenly certainly looks grim," she said. She was responding to a query on the impact of global economic downturn and the drying up of funds and investments in the start-up ecosystem and the Indian tech sector. "

Meta-owned WhatsApp releases update to fix expiration bug on Android beta

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp has released a bug fix update to address an issue with the expiration of the application on Android beta

Meta-owned Whatspp's new features to give more power to group admins

These changes follow some updates made over the last few months, including making groups larger, and giving admins the ability to delete messages sent in the groups they manage

German group sues Facebook owner Meta over death threats on social network

A prominent German environmental group said Wednesday that it's suing Facebook's parent company Meta over persistent death threats posted on the social network against its staff. Environmental Action Germany, known by its German acronym DUH, says Meta has been unwilling to stop the threats of violence regularly directed at DUH director Juergen Resch and others in a Facebook group with more than 50,000 members. DUH has conducted high-profile campaigns demanding that German cities enforce air quality rules by banning certain heavily polluting vehicles. Meta didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. German lawmaker Renate Kuenast won a case against Facebook last year forcing the company to remove fake quotes attributed to her from its site and pay damages. Facebook is appealing the ruling.

HCLTech launches service to help companies use metaverse for customers

Platform will serve financial services, telecom, manufacturing healthcare and other sectors

WhatsApp developing a redesigned chat attachment menu for Android beta

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a redesigned chat attachment menu for Android beta

Meta-owned WhatsApp widely rolling out voice status updates on iOS

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is widely rolling out the 'voice status updates' feature on iOS

WhatsApp says will leave UK market if forced to stop end-to-end protection

New measures in the law include tougher and quicker criminal sanctions for tech bosses and new criminal offences for falsifying and destroying data

Meta-owned WhatsApp rolls out 21 new emojis to some Android beta testers

According to the report, some users may be able to access the new emojis from the official WhatsApp keyboard starting today, even on different versions of the app

Google, Meta file lawsuit against South Korean data watchdog's ruling

Google and Meta Platforms have filed a lawsuit against a ruling by the South Korean data protection watchdog to penalise the global tech giants for illegally collecting personal data here

Meta launches new feature, users can create FB Reels of up to 90 seconds

Meta has launched some new "creative expression" features for creators on Facebook, including the ability to create Reels of up to 90 seconds which were earlier limited to only 60 seconds

Keep teens out of your metaverse dream: US Senators tell Mark Zuckerberg

"Any strategy to invite young users into a digital space rife with potential harms should not be driven by a goal to maximise profit," the senators wrote

Meta purges over 32 mn bad pieces of content on FB, Insta in India in Jan

Under the new IT Rules 2021, big digital and social media platforms, with more than 5 million users, have to publish monthly compliance reports

WhatsApp bans 2.9 mn accounts in India as country launches grievance panel

The IT Ministry last month notified to establish three Grievance Appellate Committees (GACs) as required under the recently amended IT Rules, 2021

Meta joins AI chatbot race with own large language model for researchers

Smaller models trained on more tokens -- which are pieces of words -- are easier to retrain and fine-tune for specific potential product use cases

Meta now allows Quest users to tap, swipe in VR without controllers

The company also introduced a new gesture for hands-based locomotion, which you can try out in the latest version of First Hand

Meta to test monthly subscription service 'Meta Verified' priced at $11.99

Meta's foray into subscription services follows Twitter, which announced last month that Twitter Blue will be priced at $11 per month