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A banker turned tech maven: Meet Sandhya Devanathan, Meta India head

Devanathan takes over the India operations after the previous incumbent, Ajit Mohan, resigned to join social media company Snap Inc

Meta rolls out new privacy updates for teens on Instagram, Facebook

It also created a number of tools for teens to inform the company if something makes them feel uncomfortable while using the applications

Meta introduces new privacy features for protecting its young users

All those under age 16 (or under 18 in some countries) will be defaulted into more private settings when they join Facebook, Meta says

Qualcomm to transform into connected chip company for intelligent edge: CEO

The latest premium mobile platform called Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is another step towards realising his dream that aims to reinvent premium mobile gaming in the metaverse era

WhatsApp India boss Abhijit Bose, Meta India public policy head quit

This development comes close on the heels of Meta laying off 11,000 employees worldwide, or about 13 per cent of its workforce, as it battles faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes

WhatsApp India head, Meta Public Policy director step down

Director Public Policy Meta India Rajiv Aggarwal too resigned from his position

Is the Meta Inc severance package a lesson for others?

Meta's move to expel 13% of its workforce comes with a generous severance package. New Indian companies may be ruthless with severance, but are liberal with the severance packages. What's behind this?

Facing deportation, sacked workers on US visas say Meta abandoned them

The affected workers have now created a WhatsApp group to share their concerns. A majority of the about 300 people in the group are from India, the report said

Meta's Indian employees go all out on Twitter after lay-off email

The number of layoffs in India could not be confirmed

Facebook users face problems with 'Ads Manager' in India: Reports

In October this year, Facebook was unavailable to roughly 3.5 billion users in the world for six hours

Top headlines: Celebs under scanner for GST evasion, Meta lays off 11,000

Business Standard brings you the top headlines this hour

Facebook parent Meta slashes workforce by 11,000, Zuckerberg takes blame

Meta CEO Zuckerberg says post-Covid scenario didn't meet expectations

Instagram brings native scheduling tool, achievements feature for creators

Scheduling tool allows creators and businesses to schedule photos, reels and carousel posts up to 75 days in advance directly from the app

After Twitter, Meta Platforms likely to fire thousands of employees

Will be first broad headcount reduction in the tech giant's 18-year history

LIVE: Court orders blocking Congress' Twitter for copyright infringement

From Facebook parent Meta's large scale layoffs to Musk's threat to Twitter account impersonators, catch all the live updates from across the globe here

WhatsApp Communities: What is it, how it works, and how to get started

WhatsApp's Communities feature allow users to manage multiple groups by bringing them under one umbrella

Ajit Mohan quits as head of Meta India; Manish Chopra interim chief

Meta Platforms announced that Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director of its India unit has stepped down from his role to pursue another opportunity outside of the company

Randi Zuckerberg bats for more women to participate in Web3, crypto

Zuckerberg also toured several startup and venture capital offices and met many investors and founders in Bengaluru

Mark Zuckerberg announces 32-person video call on WhatsApp: Details here

The new feature will allow admins to better organise the conversations "under one umbrella", Zuckerberg added

WhatsApp introduces 'Online Presence', 'Communities' features: Details here

In-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and group of up to 1024 members are some other features rolled out by the instant messaging platform WhatsApp