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Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch.

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Facebook Responds To Co-founder’s Call For Breakup
Facebook Responds To Co-founder’s Call For Breakup
May 09, 2019  |  Regulation

Facebook has responded to Co-founder Chris Hughes’ New York Times op-ed piece written on Thursday (May 9) calling for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to...

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Facebook Co-Founder Says FTC Should Break It Up
Facebook Co-Founder Says FTC Should Break It Up
May 09, 2019  |  Facebook

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes issued a scathing rebuke of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, calling on the government to break up the social media giant. In...

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Bitcoin Daily: Facebook Loosens Crypto Ad Ban; TRON Flaw Could Lead To Network Freeze
Bitcoin Daily: Facebook Loosens Crypto Ad Ban; TRON Flaw Could Lead To Network Freeze
May 09, 2019  |  Bitcoin

Facebook announced that it is loosening its ban on blockchain and cryptocurrency-related ads. “We’ve listened to feedback and assessed the policy’s effectiveness,” Facebook wrote in...

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Facebook Taps Ex-PayPal Employees For Blockchain Team
Facebook Taps Ex-PayPal Employees For Blockchain Team
May 08, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Facebook is shoring up its secretive blockchain team with hires from PayPal, according to a report by Bloomberg, and the company might be planning to...

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Facebook Picks London As WhatsApp Payments Hub
Facebook Picks London As WhatsApp Payments Hub
May 08, 2019  |  Facebook

Facebook has chosen London as the payments hub for WhatsApp. According to the Financial Times, the app will hire about 100 people. While most of...

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Crypto Fundraising Has Been Banned On WeChat
Crypto Fundraising Has Been Banned On WeChat
May 07, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

Tencent-owned Chinese chat app WeChat has altered its terms of service agreement to stop merchants from raising funds using cryptocurrency or tokens, according to reports....

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Great Expectations, Challenging Executions
Great Expectations, Challenging Executions
May 07, 2019  |  Today In Data

There is no shortage of bold claims on offer in payments and commerce. The last big news was that Facebook is building its own payments...

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Indian Contractors Examine, Categorize Facebook Content
Indian Contractors Examine, Categorize Facebook Content
May 07, 2019  |  Facebook

Contractors in India have been examining and categorizing millions of photos, status updates and more from Facebook, opening up new concerns about how the social...

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Senators Oppose FTC/Facebook Settlement
Senators Oppose FTC/Facebook Settlement
May 07, 2019  |  Facebook

Two U.S. senators have spoken out against a reported settlement between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Facebook related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In...

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