New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that CRED founder Kunal Shah will join Meta as WhatsApp’s next global CEO. Meta is also investing around $900 million (nearly Rs 8,550 crore) in the fintech company CRED.As part of the investment, Cred’s founder, Kunal Shah, will take over as global CEO of WhatsApp.“Team CRED, I’ll still expect you to be a 10x version of yourselves. As for me, I’ll be joining Meta to lead WhatsApp globally. Meta comes in as a minority in…
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Bengaluru, June 20 (IANS) The three persons arrested in connection with the circulation of fake bikini videos and photographs of actress Rukmini Vasanth, who gained national attention for her role in the film Kantara: Chapter 2, have told police that they committed the act for sadistic pleasure. All three accused come from well-educated backgrounds, police said on Saturday.The accused have been identified as Ravikumar from Bagalkot, Chandrakanth from Thirthahalli, and Ranjith Kumar from Bengalur…
Mumbai, June 18 (IANS) Actress Preity Zinta has filed a plea alleging that various online platforms like Meta and Google created, uploaded and disseminated content on her generated from artificial intelligence (AI), thereby violating her personality rights and copyright and causing huge damage to her reputation and reputation. The actress also alleged violation of his moral rights under the Copyright Act, 1957. A single-judge bench of Justice Abhay Ahuja allowed her plea seeking patent permissio…
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told employees that the company made “mistakes” in reshaping its workforce around artificial intelligence, adding that further company‑wide layoffs are not expected this year.Zuckerberg pledged to provide greater stability as possible” in terms of organisation changes going forward, multiple reports said.”I don’t want to over promise because the world is changing in ways that are out of our control,” he said, adding that rapid advances…
New Delhi, June 12 (IANS) Users of Facebook and Instagram across several countries reported widespread disruptions on Friday evening, with thousands complaining that the Meta-owned platforms were either not loading properly or failing to refresh content.The outage appeared to begin around 7 pm IST, according to user reports and data from outage-tracking platform Downdetector, which recorded a sharp surge in complaints.The disruption was not limited to any one region, with users from multiple cou…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) The Cyber Police Station of South District, Delhi Police, has successfully busted an organised interstate cyber fraud syndicate involved in operating fake online helicopter booking websites and cheating unsuspecting travellers. Three accused persons have been arrested in the case, and significant digital evidence, along with electronic devices, has been recovered.A complaint was received from a victim who was cheated of Rs 20,328 on the pretext of booking travel service…
Bengaluru, June 8 (IANS) The Karnataka Cyber Crime Police has expedited the investigation into the circulation of fake bikini videos and photographs of actress Rukmini Vasanth, who had gained national attention for her role in “Kantara Chapter-2”, seeking details of the social media accounts involved from Meta.The Bengaluru Cyber Crime Police registered an FIR last Tuesday against 29 social media accounts — 9 Instagram accounts, 14 X accounts, and 6 Facebook pages — in connection with the inci…
New Delhi, June 6 (IANS) Over 1 lakh jobs have been cut in the technology sector in the first five months 2026, with May alone accounting for nearly 28,900 roles, a new report has said.The report from Layoff.fyi said a total of 1,16,739 tech employees have been laid off year‑to‑date, adding that only 10,577 job cuts were announced in May 2025, less than half compared to 28,889 last month.However, March was the worst month this year so far in terms of job cuts, with over 46,000 mass layoffs.M…
Gandhinagar, May 25 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Meta to introduce WhatsApp-based delivery of government services, with officials describing it as a step towards expanding citizen-centric digital governance across the state. The agreement was signed in Gandhinagar in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and is aimed at allowing citizens to access a range of government services through a single WhatsApp number in Gujarati and En…
Hyderabad, May 24 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, on Sunday filed a defamation suit against social media platforms, media houses, journalists and several social media accounts for their alleged malicious campaign against him over a POCSO case in which his son Bandi Bhageerath was arrested recently. Bandi Sanjay, who filed the suit before the vacation bench of the City Civil Court, has claimed Rs 1 crore in damages.The MoS said that that he is seeking protecti…