The Entrepreneurial Way with A.I.: Facebook
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Facebook's Infinite Office is a virtual office space for the WFH crowd

8:47 PM

#Tech A couple of years ago, Facebook announced Oculus for Business, a software suite for enterprise-grade VR. But today, at Facebook Connect, the company is introducing a new virtual office experience for the work-from-home crowd. It’s called Inf...

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Former Facebook employee exposes its inability to stop misinformation

2:47 AM

#Tech A 6,600-word memo written by fired Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang shows how widespread political misinformation campaigns are on the platform — and how little the social network is doing about it. According to BuzzFeed News, which has ...

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Facebook and eBay pledge to do more to tackle trade in fake reviews after pressure from UK regulator #Ecommerce

10:25 AM

#SeoTips Facebook and eBay have made commitments to do more to stop fake reviews being sold on their platforms after coming under pressure from a UK markets regulator — even as fresh examples of the problem have been found on Facebook-owned Insta...

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Facebook to Kick Out Some Deepfakes

7:25 AM

#SeoTips Facebook on Monday promised to remove certain "misleading manipulated media": videos edited or synthesized in ways not apparent to an average person, which likely would mislead viewers to believe that video subjects said words they did...

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Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Facebook is inching closer to a think-to-type computer system

10:38 AM

#facebook #entrepreneur Elon Musk isn't the only one who wants us to communicate via brainwaves. Facebook also has ambitious plans to interface with computers using wearables and one day let us type rapidly with our brains. Now, neuroscientists f...

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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Facebook’s Marcus Says He’d Accept 100% of His Pay in Libra

11:21 AM

#facebook #entrepreneur Facebook’s blockchain lead David Marcus told lawmakers he would be willing to accept 100 percent of his salary in the social media giant’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the c...

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Saturday, July 13, 2019

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

9:35 PM

#facebook #entrepreneur After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal . The settleme...

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Friday, July 12, 2019

WSJ: Facebook reaches $5 billion FTC settlement

9:17 PM

#facebook #entrepreneur The inevitable has happened for Facebook. After weeks of reports that the company was working to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its privacy practices, the two parties have finally come to an agreement....

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Thursday, July 11, 2019

Facebook Makes it Easier to Understand Why an Ad is Shown via @MattGSouthern

8:53 PM

#Tech #AIupNow Facebook will now provide even more detail when users click on “Why am I seeing this ad?” In an effort to address concerns about the information being hard to understand Facebook is making two changes. More Reasons Why Faceboo...

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Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Facebook Reveals Cause of July 3rd Outage, Also Affecting Instagram via @MattGSouthern #Tech

8:11 PM

#Tech #Technology The cause of the widespread outage affecting image uploads on Instagram and Facebook has been revealed. In a tweet posted this evening from the Facebook Business account, the company writes: “During one of our routine maint...

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Friday, June 28, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg Fights For Libra, Says Facebook Has Only One Vote in It

8:18 AM

#facebook #entrepreneur Coinspeaker Mark Zuckerberg Fights For Libra, Says Facebook Has Only One Vote in It Ever since the launch of Facebook’s Libra, the cryptocurrency has been the talk of the day. People were speculating how decentralized it ac...

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game

1:40 PM

#facebook #entrepreneur When I get things wrong — and I was very much wrong about Facebook’s blockchain plans — the reason is usually a predictable one: confirmation bias. That is, I already have an idea of what a company’s motivations are, and th...

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Thursday, June 20, 2019

Facebook Is a Threat to Governments Not Crypto

1:39 PM

#facebook #entrepreneur The moment Facebook released the whitepaper for its planned Libra coin, social media was flooded with claims about Zuckerberg’s new drive to take over the cryptocurrency market, with some even calling it a Bitcoin killer. ...

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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

‘It’s Not a Blockchain’ – Why Gov’ts Could Ban Facebook’s Libra

3:12 PM

#facebook #entrepreneur On the day of its unveiling, Facebook’s cryptocurrency has already sparked forecasts that governments worldwide will ban it. Libra Heading For Crypto Blacklist? Libra, the protocol Facebook today revealed to the world via...

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Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know

8:47 AM

#facebook #entrepreneur Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra online or at local exchang...

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