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Sunday, November 3, 2024
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Topic: Messenger

Facebook is merging Messenger and Instagram chat. For Zuckerberg’s benefit, not yours

The messaging traffic across Facebook’s platforms is vast, with more than 100 billion messages sent daily. Now it will be inseparable.

Facebook to resume human review of Portal users’ audio messages

Facebook decided to reinstate this practice because it’s important for training the company’s software programs to accurately understand requests.

Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp set to move to a common Facebook tech home

Facebook is looking to integrate apps it owns, a move that will surely make it even easier for it to gather data on people, and pinpoint ads to them.

Facebook’s acquisition of every possible digital ad space shows weakness

Facebook's six years lessons as a public company has made it incredibly adept at making money by finding new places to stick ads and tailoring them to specific needs. 

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

Indian firms sanctioned by US didn’t violate laws, says MEA. Hyderabad firm that supplied to Army on list

Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.