Facebook soothes market nerves with user experience promise
World
February 1, 2018
Facebook soothes market nerves with user experience promise
Shares in Facebook Inc (FB.O) jumped 2.4 percent to a record high in premarket trade on Thursday, an almost 50…
Facebook usage down, profits up anyhow
Business
February 1, 2018
Facebook usage down, profits up anyhow
In its latest earnings report Facebook said on Wednesday that profit in the final three months of last year climbed…
Housewife imprisoned for 19 anti-regime Facebook pages
Egypt
January 31, 2018
Housewife imprisoned for 19 anti-regime Facebook pages
Alexandria Criminal Court sentenced a woman to three years of rigorous imprisonment over charges of inciting against the army and…
Child experts: Just say ‘no’ to Facebook’s kids app
Technology
January 30, 2018
Child experts: Just say ‘no’ to Facebook’s kids app
Child development experts and advocates are urging Facebook to pull the plug on its new messaging app aimed at kids. A group…
Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes
World
January 12, 2018
Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes
Facebook Inc on Thursday began to change the way it filters posts and videos on its centerpiece News Feed, the…
Sisi reactivates ‘Ask the President’ initiative to communicate with citizens
Egypt
January 10, 2018
Sisi reactivates ‘Ask the President’ initiative to communicate with citizens
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Wednesday the return of the “Ask the President” initiative, starting Wednesday January 10 until January…
Dem senators’ report warns of Russian meddling across Europe
World
January 10, 2018
Dem senators’ report warns of Russian meddling across Europe
A sweeping new report by congressional Democrats warns of deepening Russian interference throughout Europe and concludes that even as some…
Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘fixing’ Facebook a personal goal for 2018
World
January 5, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘fixing’ Facebook a personal goal for 2018
Zuckerberg wrote on Thursday that he wants to focus on protecting Facebook users from abuse, defend against interference by nation-states…
WhatsApp back online in Egypt after one hour outage
Egypt
January 1, 2018
WhatsApp back online in Egypt after one hour outage
Many users in Egypt and neighboring countries experienced on Sunday an outage of the popular messaging service, WhatsApp, for an…
UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says
World
December 31, 2017
UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says
Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism…