A picture shows the Facebook logo at the Facebook office in Berlin, Germany, August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Stefanie Loos – RTX2NN4K Facebook said on Sunday it would update its social media platforms in Germany within weeks to reduce the dissemination of fake news.... More »
A man poses with a magnifier in front of a Facebook logo on display in this illustration taken in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 16, 2015. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Facebook Inc (FB.O) is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video ... More »
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a meeting of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Ceo Summit in Lima, Peru, November 19, 2016. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo Facebook Inc, facing withering criticism for failing to stem a flood of p... More »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen on stage during a town hall at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California September 27, 2015. REUTERS/Stephen Lam/File Photo Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg again rejected the idea that the social networ... More »
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook said on Monday it would partner with 50 broadcast stations, print and online publications for an Electi... More »
A picture shows the Facebook logo at the Facebook office in Berlin, Germany, August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Stefanie Loos Britain’s privacy watchdog said on Monday that Facebook (FB.O) has agreed to suspend using data from UK users of its WhatsApp messaging app for ... More »
A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday, it was testing a feature that would let page administrators create job posti... More »
3D-printed models of people are seen in front of a Facebook logo in this photo illustration taken June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares tumbled 7 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday as the world’s largest online socia... More »
An aedes aegypti mosquito is pictured on a leaf in San Jose, Costa Rica February 1, 2016. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate/File Photo By Andrew M. SeamanSocial media is an important source of news for many Americans, but the health stories that are most popular may a... More »
The Facebook logo and emoticons are seen on a coffee mug at the reception of its new office in Mumbai, India May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade Facebook Inc launched a stripped down version of its popular Messenger app for emerging markets on Monday as it ... More »
Computer screens display the Facebook sign-in screen in this photo illustration taken in Golden, Colorado, United States July 28, 2015. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo Facebook Inc (FB.O) changed its popular “Trending” feature, which shows users the most-talke... More »
Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) board has proposed removing Mark Zuckerberg’s majority voting control in the event of the social media giant’s chief executive and founder deciding to exit management at some point in future. In a proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and... More »
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet this week with prominent conservatives in the media, a spokesman said on Sunday, to address allegations of political bias at the popular social networking site. Some 12 “conservative thought leaders” will join... More »
Facebook (FB.O) workers have often omitted conservative political stories from the website’s “trending” list, the technology news site Gizmodo said on Monday in a report that sparked widespread comment on social media. An unnamed former Facebook employee told ... More »
Facebook Inc apologized to users on the other side of the world from Sunday’s suicide bombing in Pakistan who received computer-addressed notices asking if they were safe. Facebook users as far away as New York and Virginia showed notifications they received o... More »
BERLIN Facebook has learned from Germany to include migrants as a class of people that needed to be protected from “hate speech” online, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on the second day of a visit to Berlin on Friday. A perceived slowness to remove anti-... More »
WASHINGTON Facebook Inc (FB.O) prohibited global users from coordinating person-to-person private sales of firearms on its online social network and its Instagram photo-sharing service on Friday, countering concerns that it was increasingly being used to circu... More »
BERLIN Facebook Inc (FB.O) began a Europe-wide campaign on Monday to thwart extremist posts on social media, after German politicians in particular raised concerns about a rise in xenophobic comments linked to an influx of refugees. The U.S.-based group launch... More »
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it is testing a service that will allow users of its Messenger app to hail Uber rides directly from the app, without leaving a conversation or downloading the ride-hailing app. Uber is the first partner for the Transportation on ... More »
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it launched its instant articles service for Android users which allows media firms to publish articles directly to the social network’s news feeds. The service involves more than 350 publications worldwide including the New York... More »
(This story corrects paragraph 3 to add terms for some non-U.S. employees) SAN FRANCISCO Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its pa... More »
VIENNA Austrian student Max Schrems’s attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook (FB.O) over its privacy policies will head to Austria’s Supreme Court to determine whether such collective legal action is allowed, his group said on Monday. The law... More »
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc (FB.O) Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter’s birth, a strong statement from one of the busiest and most powerful U.S. executives on the importance of fa... More »
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc introduced a slate of new advertising products on Sunday, most of which are aimed at luring television advertisers onto the 1.5-billion user social network. The advertising options, most of which will also be available on Facebook-ow... More »
SAN FRANCISCO/MUMBAI, August 12 Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free email support for questions about advertising and advice on increasing sales in a bid to boost revenue from its second biggest market. Facebook... More »
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl, he said on his Facebook page on Friday. The couple, who married in 2012, have been trying to have a child and had three miscarriages, he wrote. ... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – If Beijing is successful in its bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics then foreigners who attend will get uncensored Internet access, but this isn’t an issue for Chinese who “don’t like” sites like Facebook and Twitter, an official said on Wedne... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – An upstate New York man, who was set to face trial in May for attempting to defraud Facebook Inc and founder Mark Zuckerberg, is missing, his lawyer said on Monday. Paul Ceglia, 41, had been required to wear an electronic bracelet before h... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shuttle bus drivers at Facebook Inc voted on Saturday to ratify a new union contract giving them more pay, better benefits and addressing split-shift scheduling, the Wall Street Journal reported. It said Loop Transportation, the contractor... More »
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Oculus VR is getting into movies with an in-house studio dedicated to making virtual-reality films and premiered its first short piece at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. Tapping talent from both Pixar, the anima... More »
ANKARA (Reuters) – A Turkish court has ordered Facebook to block a number of pages deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, threatening to stop access to the whole social networking site if it does not comply, local media reported. The order made by the court... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] staked its claim to Apple Inc’s crown on Thursday as the world’s third-biggest smartphone maker and most valuable tech start-up unveiled the flagship Mi Note, its challenger to Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus. Chief Execut... More »
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg launched a free Internet application in Colombia on Wednesday as part of a drive to bring developing markets online, but remained mute on when and if the company would look to move into China. Col... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s photo-sharing service, Instagram, said it had more than 300 million users, sharing over 70 million photos and videos each day. Microblogging service Twitter Inc has 284 million active users, according to its website. () Four-year-old... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Lu Wei, China’s top Internet regulator, may not welcome Facebook to his house, but he’s certainly welcome at Facebook. Lu, the minister of China’s Cyberspace Administration, recently toured the campuses of U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc, App... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Rocket Internet (RKET.DE ), the global e-commerce investor, expects to launch at least another 10 start-ups in 2015 and said it would work more closely with Facebook (FB.O ) on advertising. Rocket Internet, whose shares have had a bumpy ride... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc is secretly working on a new website called “Facebook at Work” that would allow users to keep their personal profile separate from their work profile, the Financial Times reported. The new website, that will look very much like Faceboo... More »
(Reuters) – Social networking site Facebook Inc said its messaging service is being used by more than half a billion people, few months after it was separated from the main Facebook app. () Facebook said in April users would need to download a separate app for... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said requests by governments for user information rose by about a quarter in the first half of 2014 over the second half of last year. In the first six months of 2014, governments around the world made 34,946 requests for data. During ... More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management has added three western business heavyweights to its advisory council including Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook Inc founder who has long sought to enter the Chinese market where h... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O ) and Facebook Inc (FB.O ) will help pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, signaling a willingness to spend on perks and benefits in a race to acquire top-flight talent. From January, Apple will pay both ful... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O ), has been blocked in China, according to numerous reports, including from Hong Kong-based reporters with the New York Times. The company did not immediately return ... More »
EDISTO ISLAND S.C. (Reuters) – When independent U.S. Senate candidate Thomas Ravenel made a case for voters choosing him over Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham this month, only a few dozen people showed up at his 19th-century home on a South Carolina island ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Oculus VR unit announced an upgraded prototype of its virtual reality headset that has higher resolution and built-in audio, but the company said it is not ready to sell a device to consumers. The new Crescent Bay device ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco drag queens and a city lawmaker met with Facebook on Wednesday demanding the site change its policy banning users from using aliases online, but said they were rebuffed. Facebook, the world’s largest social media network... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc has approached some of YouTube’s biggest content producers to get them to distribute their videos on the social network, the Wall Street Journal said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Facebook seems to be taking on G... More »
(Reuters) – Samuel Lessin, Facebook Inc’s vice president of product management, said he would be leaving the company. Lessin said in a post on the social networking site that his departure would be effective Aug. 29. He said he does not have any immediate plan... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said service to the world’s largest online social network was fully restored on Friday, following a widespread outage that affected users in multiple countries. “Earlier this morning, some people had trouble accessing Fac... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will shut its 2-year-old Gifts shop on Aug. 12, as the world’s largest social network tests other ways to let consumers buy products on its website. “We’ll be using everything we learned from Gifts to explore new ways to ... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its probe into the social networking company over events surrounding its controversial initial public offering. In its quarterly report filed on Thursday, Facebook said the regul... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Global stock markets inched higher while U.S. debt prices fell on Thursday following unexpectedly low U.S. weekly jobless claims and stronger-than-expected U.S. earnings from companies including Facebook. The benchmark S&P 500 index closed... More »
(Reuters) – The British data watchdog is investigating whether Facebook Inc violated data-protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on its users. A Facebook spokesman acknowledged that the experiment on nearly 700,000 un... More »
(Reuters) – An Irish judge on Wednesday said an attempt by campaigners to force an investigation into Facebook’s alleged sharing of data from EU users with the U.S. National Security Agency “must fail” under current EU rules. High Court Justice Gerard Hogan, w... More »
DUBLIN (Reuters) – An Irish judge on Wednesday rejected an attempt by campaigners to force an investigation into Facebook’s alleged sharing of data from EU users with the U.S. National Security Agency. High Court Justice Gerard Hogan, who has jurisdiction beca... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is expanding the internal user profiles that underpin its targeted advertising system, for the first time including personal information based on activities that did not occur within the boundaries of its social network. ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – David Marcus, who has led eBay Inc’s fast-growing payments unit PayPal for the past two years, will step down this month to run Facebook Inc’s messaging products, the companies announced on Monday. EBay shares fell a little more than ... More »
(Reuters) – Mark Zuckerberg and other members of Facebook Inc’s board have been sued by a shareholder who claimed a policy letting them annually award directors more than $150 million of stock each if they choose is unreasonably generous. In a complaint filed ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Instagram, the mobile photo service owned by Facebook Inc, is expanding its nascent advertising business beyond the United States and will begin showing ads to users in Britain, Canada and Australia, the company said on Monday. The ad... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will add technology to its mobile apps that recognizes the music, movies or television shows its users are enjoying, in the company’s latest move to give prominence to media and entertainment on its social network. The ne... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it’s easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building radios, microchips and other devices. Now, a proliferation of high-t... More »
(Reuters) – Shares of Twitter Inc sank 18 percent to a new low in frenzied trading on Tuesday, wiping out more than $4 billion of its market value, as early investors sold stock in the messaging service for the first time after a six-month “lock-up” expired. T... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks rose on Thursday lifted by upbeat earnings from tech heavyweights Apple and Facebook which helped shake off some of the concerns about overheating that have dented the sector in recent weeks. Wall Street and particularly the Na... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s mobile advertising business accelerated in the first three months of the year, helping the Internet social networking company top Wall Street’s financial targets. Shares of Facebook were up nearly 3 percent at $63.05 in... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is harnessing satellite, drone and other technology as part of an ambitious and costly effort to beam Internet connectivity to people in underdeveloped parts of the world. The world’s No. 1 social network said on Thursday... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will acquire two-year-old Oculus VR Inc, a maker of virtual-reality glasses for gaming, for $2 billion, buying its way into the fast-growing wearable devices arena with its first-ever hardware deal. The acquisition, which... More »
(Reuters) – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York businessman Paul Ceglia against Facebook Inc and its founder Mark Zuckerberg, adopting findings by a magistrate judge that a purported contract entitling him to an ownership stake in the company... More »
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Executives of several large U.S. Internet companies, including Facebook Inc and Google Inc, met with President Barack Obama on Friday to discuss their concerns over government surveillance programs. Obama and senior aides m... More »
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has no current plans to block access to other social media platforms such as Facebook after blocking Twitter due to complaints that it was breaching privacy, a senior Turkish official told Reuters on Friday. “The path was taken to blo... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Barack Obama to voice his displeasure. “When our engineers work tireless... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will allow more marketers to run video advertisements on its website, provided the world’s No.1 social network deem them to be of high-enough quality. Facebook and social media rivals like Twitter are increasingly trying ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc and its photo sharing subsidiary, Instagram, will delete posts offering to buy or sell guns without background checks, Facebook announced on Wednesday. In an effort to curb what gun control advocates say is the increasing... More »
SAN FRANCISCO/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will take a victory lap at the world’s largest mobile technology conference in Barcelona on Monday, after beating out Google Inc in a $19 billion acquisition of free messa... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – LinkedIn Corp is attempting to become more like Facebook Inc by encouraging all members to generate a steady stream of shareable articles, a perk once available only to well-known business personalities. The move, which the company ho... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc delivered its strongest revenue growth in two years, beating Wall Street targets as the Internet company’s mobile ad sales continued to accelerate. Shares of Facebook surged 12 percent to $59.98 in after-hours trading on ... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Sony Pictures Entertainment has purchased the film rights to Facebook Inc executive Sheryl Sandberg’s bestselling memoir on female empowerment, “Lean In,” a source familiar with the deal said on Friday. Sony Pictures’ Columbia Pictures ... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts publicly acknowledged a same-sex relationship for the first time on Sunday afternoon in a Facebook post reflecting on her recovery from a blood disorder. Roberts, 53, included the information ... More »
(Reuters) – Hulu has failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the video streaming service of illegally sharing users’ viewing history with Facebook Inc and business metrics company comScore Inc. In San Francisco on Friday, U.S. Magistra... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – At Pinterest, the four-year-old online bulletin board service that is valued near $3.8 billion, some 70 percent of the users are female. But the company’s board of directors is 100 percent male. Male-heavy boards dominate in the start... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – Security experts have uncovered a trove of some 2 million stolen passwords to websites including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yahoo from Internet users across the globe. Researchers with Trustwave’s SpiderLabs said they discovered the crede... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc shares slipped on Monday after some of the five lead underwriters of its initial public offering said the social media firm may not achieve Facebook-like scale and its stock may not rise much higher. In their first researc... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Short sellers are starting to circle around Twitter shares in their first chance at betting against the micro-blogging site’s stock, a sign some investors think the share price will fall. Data on Wednesday showed the cost to borrow Twitter... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc director Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm sold a third of its stake in the world’s No. 1 online social network, according to a recent regulatory filing. Andreessen Horowitz sold 2.28 million shares on November 6 at about... More »
DETROIT (Reuters) – A top General Motors executive deactivated his Facebook account on Monday after he responded to a website that wrote dismissively about the company’s shrinking U.S. auto market share. Mark Reuss, president of GM’s North American operations,... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc shares jumped past $1,000 on Friday as investors bet on the Internet company’s continued dominance of the mobile and video advertising businesses despite aggressive competition from Facebook Inc and Yahoo Inc. Shares of the... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc plans to launch new product-endorsement ads incorporating photos, comments and names of its users, in a move to match the “social” ads pioneered by rival Facebook Inc that is raising some privacy concerns. The changes, whic... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – When Facebook Inc was preparing to go public last year, the telephones at Granite Investment Advisors rang off the hook as clients called about the social media’s company’s highly anticipated debut. In stark contrast, the investment c... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The morning after a new episode of the drama “Sleepy Hollow” airs on the Fox broadcast network, a message on the show’s Facebook page encourages viewers to catch up with the show by clicking on their cable operator’s video on demand ser... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cisco Systems Inc and Facebook Inc said on Wednesday they will work with big businesses such as hotels and retailers to provide free wireless Internet access to consumers who sign in using a Facebook log-in. The companies have been testing... More »
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Facebook, Twitter and other websites deemed sensitive and blocked by the Chinese government will be accessible in a planned free-trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Citing unidentified government... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is expanding a service that lets a group of major marketers measure the effectiveness of their ads, in the company’s latest move to prove that advertising on the world’s largest social network leads to real world sales. T... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said revelations about U.S. government surveillance hurt users’ trust in Internet companies and that knowing more about the programs would help relieve some of the public concerns. In a rare ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Twitter Inc has filed for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators, the company said on Thursday, taking the first step toward what would be Silicon Valley’s most anticipated debut since Facebook Inc’s last year. The i... More »
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Angered by reports that the U.S. government spied on her and other Brazilians, President Dilma Rousseff is pushing new legislation that would seek to force Google, Facebook and other internet companies to store locally gathered data insid... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social network’s controversial technology. The possible move, which ... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Governments sought information on over 38,000 Facebook users in the first half of 2013 and the No.1 social network complied with most requests, the firm said in its first report on the scale of data inquiries it gets from countries ar... More »
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday granted final approval to Facebook’s $20 million settlement of a lawsuit over targeted advertising despite objections that the deal did not go far enough to protect children’s privacy. Five plaintiffs filed a cl... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s (FB.O ) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS ), Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O ) and four other companies for a project aimed at bringing Internet access to people around the world who can’t afford... More »
BOSTON (Reuters) – A man who hacked into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to expose a software bug is getting donations from hackers around the world after the company declined to pay him under a program that normally rewards people who report flaws. Khalil Shr... More »
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O ) struck a deal with online restaurant booking service OpenTable Inc (OPEN.O ) that will allow users to reserve tables at restaurants via a Facebook app, as the world’s No. 1 social network continues to expand its mobile services... More »
