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Facebook to broadcast all La Liga games for free on Indian subcontinent
Lionel Messi, Gareth Bale and other La Liga stars will soon be beamed for free to viewers on the Indian subcontinent as part of a landmark deal with Facebook to broadcast matches, the Spanish top-flight division said Tuesday. All 380 matches of the 2018-19 La ...
Mark Zuckerberg is totally out of his depth
Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An AP investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you've used a privacy ...
Syria's first lady Asma Assad has begun treatment for breast cancer, the presidency said Wednesday, wishing her a speedy recovery. Such public announcements are uncommon in the Arab world, where cancer is considered a taboo. The presidency posted on its Facebook page a photo of President ...
Facebook has asked major U.S. banks to share customer data to allow it to develop new services on the social network's Messenger texting platform, a banking source said Monday. Facebook had discussions with Chase, JPMorgan, Citibank and Wells Fargo several months ago, said the source, ...
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones booted from YouTube, Facebook, Apple and Spotify
Facebook Inc. and YouTube pulled Alex Jones from their services on Monday after concluding the conspiracy theorist's posts violated their policies. The moves follow similar action by Apple Inc. and Spotify Technology SA. Facebook said it removed four pages belonging to Jones for repeatedly posting ...
Silicon Valley giants have become a gargantuan force on Wall Street, as demonstrated by Apple recently topping $1 trillion in market valuation. But should we fear that a new tech bubble is ready to burst? Here are some questions and answers about the sector: What does the ...
Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it had identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissent among voters ahead of U.S. congressional elections set for November. The firm said it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, in ...
'He looked like a terrorist!' Rural India joy ride ended in rumor-fueled mob attack and lynching
In the tiny hamlet of Murki in the hinterlands of south India, Inspector V.B. Yadwad surveyed a pile of bricks and stones in a ditch where he and other police officers had been attacked earlier this month while trying to save a group of ...
For four centuries, the opulent, exuberant nudes of Peter Paul Rubens have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. Now his baroque paintings are jolting the internet. Belgian museums are uniting in protest against Facebook because they cannot promote Flemish masters, including ...
Apple and Amazon lead the race toward $1 trillion market value
For a long time, Apple appeared to be flying solo to a $1 trillion market value. But Amazon is right at its heels — and experts have no fears of a tech bubble. Apple, at $939 billion, remains the highest-valued private company on the global ...
U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech and is close to having pages tied to him and his Infowars website removed from the platform, the social media network said on Friday. The radio host's personal profile was ...
