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Meta Under Fire for Exposing Apple and Google Data During Antitrust Trial

08 May 2025

Parent company Meta of Facebook and Instagram has come under fierce criticism after a damning courtroom blunder in the course of an unfolding antitrust trial revealed confidential competitor data from Apple, Google, and Snapchat. The misfortune, through inadequately redacted court papers, has brought Meta's data practices to the spotlight once...

Meta May Shut Down Facebook in Nigeria Over 0M in Fines

Meta May Shut Down Facebook in Nigeria Over $290M in Fines

02 May 2025

Users in Nigeria could be cut off from Facebook and Instagram after parent company Meta stated that it was threatened with huge fines and "unrealistic" regulatory requests from the Nigerian government. Meta Faces Massive Fines in Nigeria Three Nigerian regulatory bodies fined the US social media giant a total of...

Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Ban Glasses Are Coming to India: Here’s What They Can Do

24 Apr 2025

Meta is set to launch its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses in India This was announced in a recent blog post These glasses let users interact with Meta AI, capture photos and videos hands-free, and more You are walking down the street, wearing a pair of Ray-Bans that don’t just block...

EU Threatens to Tax Meta & Google if Trump Trade Talks Fails

11 Apr 2025

The EU tech tax on US tech giants is back in the spotlight as relations between Brussels and Washington heat up. The European Union has threatened to impose targeted digital taxes on digital giants such as Meta and Google if trade negotiations with the Trump administration break down. Though both...

Meta On The Brink: Zuckerberg Battles To Keep Instagram, WhatsApp As Antitrust Trial Starts

09 Apr 2025

Meta, the owner of Facebook, is scheduled to go on trial next week in a historic antitrust case filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), charging the tech company with misusing its market power by buying Instagram and WhatsApp to stifle potential competition in the future. The case, to...

Meta Faces .4B Lawsuit Over Alleged Role in Ethiopia Violence

Meta Faces $2.4B Lawsuit Over Alleged Role in Ethiopia Violence

04 Apr 2025

Meta is being sued for $2.4bn (£1.8bn) by the owner of Facebook, alleging that it stoked violence in Ethiopia following a ruling by the Kenyan high court that a court case against the US tech company could proceed. Allegations Against Facebook's Algorithm The case filed by two Ethiopian citizens challenges...

Meta Plans USD 200 Billion AI Data Center Amid Hiring Bias Lawsuit

26 Feb 2025

Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, is planning to build a massive data center for artificial intelligence (AI) projects. Reports suggest the project could cost over $200 billion. If approved, this would be one of the largest investments in AI infrastructure. Meta Explores Possible Locations To move forward, Meta executives have informed...

Meta Expands in India Amid Layoffs, Opens 41 New Jobs in Bengaluru

23 Feb 2025

Meta, the social media behemoth, is setting up a new building in Bengaluru, according to TechCrunch. This comes after the firm laid off some 5% of its employees in a move that mostly involved those classified as "low performers." Focus on Enterprise Engineering According to the report, the new center...

Meta to Build 50,000 km Undersea Cable Connecting Five Continents, ‘Longer Than Earth’s Circumference’

18 Feb 2025

Meta, Facebook's parent company, has just revealed its most ambitious digital infrastructure initiative yet, called Project Waterworth. This undersea cable system will connect five principal continents spanning over 50,000 km, which is longer than the circumference of Earth, thereby improving worldwide connectivity and enabling developments in artificial intelligence (AI). ...

Meta Shake-Up: Global Layoffs Begin, But AI Engineers InHigh Demand!

08 Feb 2025

Tech giant Meta Platforms is set to initiate company-wide layoffs next week, even as it accelerates the hiring of machine learning engineers, according to internal memos seen by Reuters. The layoffs, expected to impact around 5% of the company’s workforce, will begin Monday at 5 a.m. local time in most...

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