Ever since Facebook (now Meta) bought Instagram, the company started integrating Instagram and its features across its platforms. These platforms now share a lot of features such as Reel, Messenger, Direct Messenger integration and more. However, to make things simpler, Facebook started…
Who Owns You; Instagram, WhatsApp Or Facebook? By Chido Nwangwu
The fact of the matter is that some people did not believe that Facebook would let three of its mega-sites to go down, at the same time — arising from some configuration updates! market capitalization value is currently US$922 billion.…
Facebook grapples with another global outage
Facebook on Friday said users around the world again had problems accessing its services for hours due to a tweak of its system, just days after a massive outage caused in a similar fashion. “Sincere apologies to anyone who wasn’t…
At about 16:00 GMT on Monday, October 4, smartphone users around the world noticed a lull in Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp updates, the second time in 2021. In Nigeria, many initially thought it was the periodic outage of network services.…
Two traders pick their FAANG favorites ahead of earnings next week
The FAANG stocks are in for an eventful week. Every high-profile technology stock in the group except Netflix is set to report earnings in coming days. Alphabet will report on Tuesday, Apple and Facebook on Wednesday and Amazon on Thursday. Netflix’s post-earnings drop raised some concerns about how FAANG would fare…
Tech’s Biggest CEOs Are Too Chickenshit to Defend Net Neutrality
Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee invited the CEOs of Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google’s parent company Alphabet to take part in discussions about net neutrality. Telecoms were also invited and the two groups were expected to play good cop/bad…
Facebook is planning to build its own town
Billions of people spend a lot of time living their lives on Facebook’s social network. Now Facebook wants to try its hand at creating a community in the real world. The internet giant wants to build housing, retail stores, a…
Facebook’s solar-powered internet drone takes its first flight
Facebook has successfully completed a test flight of a solar-powered drone that will beam internet from the sky. The drone, called Aquila, is a carbon fiber aircraft that weighs about a third of an electric car, but has a wingspan…