GST replaced ''Congress legacy tax'' with ''good and simple tax'': Jaitley
Fri, Jul 27, 2018
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the GST has replaced the `Congress Legacy Tax` -- which was 31 per cent for most goods -- with a `good and simple tax`, adding that the existing 28 per cent slab will be phased out following further improvement in revenue collections.
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Facebook loses a whopping $150 billion in just two hours; share price tumbles 24%
Thu, Jul 26, 2018
Facebook had cautioned investors to expect a big jump in costs because of efforts to address concerns about poor handling of users' privacy and to better monitor what users post. Total expenses in the second quarter surged to $7.4 billion, up 50 per cent compared with a year ago.
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Facebook Q2 results out: Tech giant says privacy push will erode profits for years
Thu, Jul 26, 2018
The second-quarter results were the first sign that a new European privacy law and a succession of privacy scandals involving Cambridge Analytica and other app developers have bit into Facebook`s business.
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Facebook pledges tough U.S. election security efforts as critical memo surfaces
Wed, Jul 25, 2018
Facebook officials on Tuesday said the company is using a range of techniques including artificial intelligence to counter Russian operatives or others who use deceptive tactics and false information to manipulate public opinion.
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Facebook will not remove fake news, but demote it
Mon, Jul 16, 2018
The social network is currently running an advertising campaign in Britain that declares "fake news is not our friend". But it said publishers often had "very different points of view" and removing fabricated posts would be "contrary to the basic principles of free speech", the BBC reported on Friday.
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Centre refuses to share Facebook's data leak response, says it is confidential
Sun, Jul 15, 2018
The Indian government has refused to share copies of responses received from the US-based social media giant Facebook over global data breach scandal involving London-based data mining firm Cambridge Analytica, saying the information was shared by the companies 'in confidence'
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Income Tax dept scanner on Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter
Sat, Jul 14, 2018
Seeking to tax overseas online companies deriving economic value in India, the Income Tax department today sought industry views on the revenue and user thresholds to determine if they have 'significant economic presence' in the country
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Microsoft debuts free tier in competitive workplace chat app market
Fri, Jul 13, 2018
Microsoft has been competing with Slack since introducing Teams in early 2017. The product is used by 200,000 organizations, the company said in March. Slack in May said that Slack is used by 70,000 paying organizations.
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Facebook's Private Profile feature will secure your privacy
Wed, Jul 11, 2018
Facebook Groups are communities where individual members can join and contribute to the ongoing discussion. Such Groups may also be related to finding flats/flatmates, a college community group or just about anything for users to access and share. From 100 million, Facebook Groups have reportedly increased to 200 million users.
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How WhatsApp allows you to re-download deleted media including photos, videos
Fri, Jul 06, 2018
Often, due to negligence or mistakes, delete important pictures from our gallery and these are presumably lost forever. However, this new feature from WhatsApp can help you easily recover the images you lost from your ‘WhatsApp image’ folder.
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Are your Facebook, Gmail accounts safe; Guess what! These companies have your data
Wed, Jul 04, 2018
Facebook has recently revealed that a total 52 companies were authorized to have access to their devices and products. This simply means these companies were aware of day-to-day social media usage.
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Facebook buying Britain-based AI start-up: Report
Tue, Jul 03, 2018
Facebook recently announced that it was using AI to remove posts from its platform that involve hate speech, nudity, graphic violence, terrorist content, spam, fake accounts and suicide. "We view AI as a foundational technology, and we`ve made deep investments in advancing the state of the art through scientist-directed research," Facebook said in a statement.
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Whatsapp status: How to download video from someone else's status
Tue, Jul 03, 2018
There is a hidden Whatsapp status folder in phone, and when you click on your friend’s Whatsapp story, it gets auto downloaded in your phone in the folder called .statuses, which is kept hidden to prevent you from saving Whatsapp status images to gallery to avoid copyright issues. You just need to unhide the folder to copy Whatsapp status of others, and do not need rooting of Android Marshmallow/Nougat device or jailbreak iOS iDevice.
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Facebook bug unblocks unwanted connections for a bit; glitch fixed
Tue, Jul 03, 2018
The vast majority of the more than 800,000 people affected by the bug had only one person they had blocked be temporarily unblocked, according to Facebook. People affected by the bug will get notifications encouraging them to check their blocked lists. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year was grilled by the European Parliament and the US Congress about a massive breach of users' personal data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Facebook bug unblocks unwanted connections for a bit
Tue, Jul 03, 2018
Facebook said it is notifying more than 800,000 users that a software bug temporarily unblocked people at the social network and its Messenger service. The glitch active between May 29 and June 5 has been fixed, according to Facebook, which has been striving to regain trust in the aftermath of a Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.
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