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Facebook, Google To Share Revenue With Australian Media As Country Passes Law With Global Implications
Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 4:06am | 518Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google will have to pay Australian media for news content, a development that may be replicated elsewhere in the world, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. What Happened: The country’s parliament passed the...
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Facebook Re-Friends Australia As Government Amends News-Revenue-Sharing Bill
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - 12:23am | 404Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will restore news pages it suspended in Australia in the coming days after it reached a deal with the country’s government. What Happened: The Mark Zuckerberg-led company said in a statement Monday that it was able to reach an agreement with Australia’s...
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This Day In Market History: Facebook's WhatsApp Purchase Is The Largest Buyout Of A VC-Backed Company
Friday, February 19, 2021 - 9:00am | 298Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened: On Feb. 19, 2014, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) bought the five-year-old WhatsApp for $19.6 billion in cash and stock. Where The Market Was: The S&P 500 closed down at 1,828.75, and...
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BigTech Will Not 'Run' The World, Australian PM Hits Back At Facebook After News-Sharing Ban
Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 3:30am | 470Facebook Inc’s (NASDAQ: FB) actions to “unfriend Australia” have not gone down well with Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who criticized the social media giant on Thursday. What Happened: Morrison termed Facebook’s actions of cutting of essential services on...
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Mark Zuckerberg Told Facebook Staff In 2018 To 'Inflict Pain' On Apple: Report
Sunday, February 14, 2021 - 8:40am | 354The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg had harsh words for Tim Cook’s Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) back in 2018, amid a long-standing spat between the two firms. What Happened: The most recent episode in the feud involves privacy...
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This Day In Market History: Mark Zuckerberg Launches Facebook
Thursday, February 4, 2021 - 11:57am | 299Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On this day 17 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, Inc (NASDAQ: FB). Where Was The Market? The S&P 500 was trading at 1,126.52 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average...
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Tim Cook Vs. Mark Zuckerberg: How The High-Profile Dispute Is Intensifying
Thursday, January 28, 2021 - 4:29pm | 419As Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) are facing antitrust investigations by regulators, the CEOs of the companies are trading barbs, heating up a years-long tension between the two tech CEOs. Facebook On Apple: On Thursday it was reported that...
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple One Of Facebook's Biggest Competitors Now
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 9:47pm | 553Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has emerged as a potent competitor to the social networking giant. What Happened: Zuckerberg used the opening statement at the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call to lambast the Cupertino,...
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Facebook Users' Phone Numbers Are Going Out For $20 Each On Telegram: What You Should Know
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 - 12:01am | 306Private phone numbers of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) users are available through a bot on the rival Telegram messaging service for $20 a pop, Vice's Motherboard reported Monday. What Happened: The database contains information on 500 million Facebook users, a person advertising the service...
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Facebook Logged Out iPhone Users, Blames 'Configuration Change'
Saturday, January 23, 2021 - 9:53am | 293IPhone users were suddenly logged out of their Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) accounts on Friday night. What Happened: Many iPhone users took to Twitter to complain about being logged out of Facebook. So Facebook logged everybody out? Thought it was just me pic.twitter.com/6wl69gFGoD...
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Facebook Bans Ads For Weapon Accessories And Protective Gear
Sunday, January 17, 2021 - 10:44am | 256Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is banning all ads related to weapon accessories and other equipment. What Happened: The social media platform announced yesterday it would start banning all advertisements for protective gear and weapon accessories like vests, gun safes and holsters in...
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WhatsApp Delays Roll-Out Of New Privacy Rules, While Telegram Gains 25M Users In 3 Days
Saturday, January 16, 2021 - 10:20am | 426Facebook Inc’s (NASDAQ: FB) WhatsApp messaging service says it is delaying a new privacy policy update. What Happened: WhatsApp announced in a blog post on Friday that it is postponing its new privacy policy following widespread criticism and millions of users of users fleeing...
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Trump Reportedly 'Ballistic' After Twitter Blocks All His Attempts To Post
Saturday, January 9, 2021 - 11:21am | 560In a matter of the last 24 hours, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has banned Donald Trump’s personal Twitter page, deleted his tweets from the @Potus official presidential account and suspended Trump’s campaign account. What Happened: The social media...
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Shopify, Twitch, YouTube And Social Media: Where Bans On Donald Trump Stand
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 6:46pm | 572The protests at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and the videos released by President Donald Trump afterward have forced companies to decide whether to take a stand against the outgoing president and if anything he said violates their terms. The violence and protests that happened on Wednesday have...
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Big Tech CEOs Condemn Capitol Violence, Term It 'Shameful,' 'Antithesis Of Democracy'
Thursday, January 7, 2021 - 12:19am | 692Wednesday’s violence on the Capitol has been severely condemned by leaders of some of the largest technology companies in the United States. Here is what they had to say: Tim Cook: The Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO called the violent storming of the Capitol a “sad and shameful chapter in...