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In a strong speech with tough words that ricocheted from Davos to Silicon Valley, investor and famous liberal George Soros called Facebook and Google a “menace” to society whose “days are numbered” yesterday at the World Economic Forum. He compared them to oil and mining companies which...

Billionaire investor George Soros launched a scathing attack on Facebook and Google at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to subvert democracy. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2Ggm9nY Get more: Nigeria Business News

Facebook has been trying to combat fake news and have approached the problem in different ways. One of the ways was to flag articles that were deemed fake and added a tag to let users know that the article could contain inaccurate information. Facebook later revised this by displaying suggested...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, might be one of history’s most successful entrepreneurs, but he is a parent just like any other. The 33-year-old Facebook founder recently had to go through the heart-wrenching experience of sending off his daughter on her first day of school and, … via...

. WhatsApp WhatsApp is king of the messenger apps, with over a billion daily users. Now, the Facebook-owned company looks to better expand its reach to businesses. WhatsApp Business is a free Android app released Thursday in the US, UK, Mexico, Italy and Indonesia, with more countries coming...

On Thursday, Facebook introduced major changes to its News Feed algorithm, effectively altering how it ranks posts and visual content on its users’ News Feeds. Facebook will now prioritize what users’ friends and family share in a bid to make sure that time spent on the platform is “time well …...

As Facebook gears up for another News Feed algorithm change, a new report suggests tests of the platforms earlier algorithm tests aren’t going as planned. In the fall, Facebook began testing a split News Feed, with posts from friends in one location and posts from news publications in another...

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to change. But is it change we can believe in? Should you have been ensconced in your panic room for the last week with only burgers, the collected works of …...

For Facebook Inc. and its wildly successful social-media network, the changes it announced to its news feed on Thursday could have sweeping implications. Announced in a blog, Facebook’s objective is to give posts from users’s friends and family—personal … via MarketWatch.com – Top Stories...

Last night, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced via a Facebook post that Facebook is changing how News Feed works. In short: more posts from friends and family, less reach for publishers and brands. Now, it seems that announcement might have cost Zuckerberg roughly $3 billion, personally–as a...

Earlier today, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook announced the end of the Facebook News Feed as we know it. In a nutshell, public posts from brands, pages and publishers are being diminished in a substantial way from the Facebook News Feed. Here are 10 things you need to know about the impending...

Shares of Facebook fell 4 percent on Friday after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the platform’s centerpiece News Feed that he said would hit user engagement in the near term. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2EBZxNp Get more: Nigeria Business News

Photo: Getty Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to remember a time when you curated your list of favorite movies, showed off your new pair of shoes, shared some good news, and didn’t see using Facebook as a pseudo-masochistic act of poor impulse control. He wants you to forget the time …...

Facebook is tweaking what people see to make their time on the site more “meaningful.” The company says people will likely spend less time on Facebook as a result. The changes come as critics say social media can make people feel depressed and isolated. Facebook has said before that it …...

Facebook users can expect to see more posts from their friends and family in their News Feeds in the coming months, the company announced today. Posts that generate high levels of engagement will also be featured higher in the News Feed. Businesses and organizations with Facebook Pages may...

Since 2009, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly announced a personal improvement challenge in January, a sort of New Year’s resolution and Oprah’s Book Club rolled into one. Learn Mandarin. Run 365 miles. Kill your own meat. But this year, Zuckerberg pledged to spend 2018 “fixing” big...

Former US President Barack Obama personally urged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to counter the rise of fake news on the social network during a meeting held shortly after last year’s election, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The encounter reportedly took place on the sidelines of a...

According to Bloomberg, the Facebook founder is expected to sell between 35 to 75 million shares in the next 18 months. At current rates, 75 million shares will be valued at over $12 billion. Bloomberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan welcomed their second child, a girl on Monday. While people all over the world sent their congratulations, a Nigerian man named Amoo Joshua Oluwatimilehin took time to blast him He wrote "Why do you give birth to daughters alone, no one...

Founder of Facebook, and one of the richest man in the world, Mark Zuckerberg, yesterday returned to Harvard University to get his degree, after 12 years of dropping out. Mark retuned to the Ivy League school to pick up his degree, only an honorary one. Zuckerberg also gave a commencement...