Sorry for the Disruption: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Apologises After Global Outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Sorry for the Disruption: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Apologises After Global Outage

The Quint  

Whatsapp CEO Will Cathcart took to social media and said the app was back up and running. "We know that people were unable to use WhatsApp to connect with their friends, family, businesses, community groups, and more today — a humbling reminder of how much people and organisations rely on our app every day," he tweeted. The global outage of the three platforms was the second blow to the tech giant after a whistleblower accused the company of prioritising profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation. The outage also saw Zuckerberg lose over $6billion in personal wealth and move down the world's wealthiest people list. According to Reuters, Facebook also saw its shares fall by 4.9%, which was their biggest drop since November 2020.

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Meta's millions lost: How much did Zuckerberg lose after Facebook, Instagram global outage
10 months, 1 week ago

Meta's millions lost: How much did Zuckerberg lose after Facebook, Instagram global outage

Hindustan Times  

Social media went dark on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024, as a major outage swept across Meta's platforms globally. The reason behind the Meta global outage All of Meta's owned social media platforms faced technical glitches, similar to those in 2021, resulting in a 7-hour outage. A Facebook insider informed DailyMail.com that their internal systems were down during the outage, with …

Mark Zuckerberg loses USD 3 billion after Meta outage: Shocking details here
10 months, 1 week ago

Mark Zuckerberg loses USD 3 billion after Meta outage: Shocking details here

India TV News  

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta experienced a substantial loss of around USD 3 billion in a single day after the global outage surfaced and affected the company's flagship platforms- Facebook and Instagram. The outage resulted in a 1.6 per cent decrease in Meta’s share, contributing to the breakage of Mark Zuckerberg's net worth. Global outage impact on Meta Users …

Is WhatsApp down? Users report issues with voice and sending messages
10 months, 1 week ago

Is WhatsApp down? Users report issues with voice and sending messages

Hindustan Times  

Amid the global outage affecting Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger, some users also reported issues with another social media platform owned by Mark Zuckerberg, WhatsApp on Tuesday. WhatsApp down Meta's status dashboard showed that the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also experiencing issues. Meta has acknowledged the widespread issues affecting their platforms and assured users …

WhatsApp, Facebook And Other Meta Companies To Fire 11,000; Read Letter From Mark Zuckerberg Here
2 years, 2 months ago

WhatsApp, Facebook And Other Meta Companies To Fire 11,000; Read Letter From Mark Zuckerberg Here

News 18  

Social media giant Meta, that owns WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and other companies have announced a massive round of layoffs. Here’s the full letter by Mark Zuckerberg to employees working at Meta companies. We’ve shifted more of our resources onto a smaller number of high priority growth areas — like our AI discovery engine, our ads and business platforms, and our …

Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11k staff in one of biggest US layoffs this year
2 years, 2 months ago

Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11k staff in one of biggest US layoffs this year

Live Mint  

In one of the biggest tech layoffs of 2022, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc on Wednesday said that it will let go of 13% of its workforce, or more than 11,000 employees, as part of a plan to reduce costs at the social-media platform following disappointing earnings, soaring costs, and a weak advertising market. I know this is tough for …

Zuckerberg’s biggest bet might not pay off
2 years, 5 months ago

Zuckerberg’s biggest bet might not pay off

Live Mint  

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivers harsh message to employees
2 years, 6 months ago

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg delivers harsh message to employees

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy As tech stocks take a tumble amid a broader market downturn, Meta chief …

Facebook's Parent Company Just Took A Massive Hit. Here's Why.
2 years, 11 months ago

Facebook's Parent Company Just Took A Massive Hit. Here's Why.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Shares in Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, plummeted 26% on Thursday after the social media conglomerate reported a decline in daily users and lower-than-expected ad revenue. But the drop-off portends trouble for all of Meta’s projects, including Facebook and its plans for domination of the so-called “metaverse.” So ― what’s making Wall Street nervous? Now …

Facebook suffers biggest one-day fall in history as shares plunge over 26pc
2 years, 11 months ago

Facebook suffers biggest one-day fall in history as shares plunge over 26pc

The Telegraph  

Facebook suffered the biggest one-day drop in value of any company in Wall Street history as a dismal set of financial results prompted a brutal sell-off. Shares in Meta, the recently rebranded parent company, fell by 26.4pc, knocking over $230bn off its value, the day after it revealed that growing competition from TikTok had sent Facebook’s user numbers falling for …

Facebook Q3 Earnings: Mark Zuckerberg responds to massive document dump
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Q3 Earnings: Mark Zuckerberg responds to massive document dump

CNN  

New York CNN Business — CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off Facebook’s quarterly earnings call by addressing the latest wave of coverage based on a trove of leaked internal documents on Monday. Tens of thousands of pages of internal documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen informed the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” series, and on Monday, a flood of additional news …

Facebook apologises for second outage in a week, services back up
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook apologises for second outage in a week, services back up

The Hindu  

Facebook Inc apologised to users for a two hour disruption to its services on Friday and blamed another faulty configuration change for its second global outage this week. On Monday, the social media giant blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such …

Facebook down - live: Latest as Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps come back after outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook down - live: Latest as Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps come back after outage

The Independent  

✕ Close Explained: Why Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were all down Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy WhatsApp, Instagram …

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram suffer worldwide outage

Associated Press  

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms are back online after a massive global outage plunged the services and the businesses and people who rely on them into chaos for hours. Nick Clegg, the company’s vice president of policy and public affairs, wrote to Facebook employees in a memo Friday that “social media has had a big impact on society …

Is Facebook back? Instagram, WhatsApp and more come back online after outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Is Facebook back? Instagram, WhatsApp and more come back online after outage

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The problems also affected Facebook’s own internal services – apparently leaving it unable to properly address the …

Facebook costliest outage caused $160 million loss: NetBlocks
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook costliest outage caused $160 million loss: NetBlocks

Hindustan Times  

It wasn’t the small matter of a social networking website going offline for a short period. Data suggests that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, lost as much as $7 billion and Facebook saw $40 billion in market capitalisation wiped out due to the outage. Facebook’s share price tumbled, and data suggests that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of …

Rocked by longest Facebook outage and whistleblower revelations, Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours
3 years, 3 months ago

Rocked by longest Facebook outage and whistleblower revelations, Mark Zuckerberg loses $7 bn in hours

Firstpost  

The stock slide on Monday sent Zuckerberg’s worth down to $121.6 billion, dropping him below Bill Gates to number 5 on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index A damning whistleblower account and outages that hit Facebook Inc’s flagship products such as WhatsApp and Instagram have led to a decline in Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth by more than $7 billion in a few …

Netizens wonder how life would be without social media after Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp went down
3 years, 3 months ago

Netizens wonder how life would be without social media after Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp went down

India TV News  

Monday blues came in the form of internet shutdown. While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a result. Not only this but many even wondered how life would be if …

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp coming back online after hours of disruption
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp coming back online after hours of disruption

India TV News  

Services of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are coming back online after several hours of disruption that impacted millions of people worldwide. While the users of the three social media platforms remained clueless as they repeatedly received error messages for the most part of the day, the stocks of Silicon Valley firm Facebook dropped by nearly five per cent as a …

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp start reconnecting after nearly 6-hour outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp start reconnecting after nearly 6-hour outage

The Hindu  

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet on Tuesday early morning, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform. Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps went dark at around noon Eastern time, in what website monitoring group Downdetector said was the largest such failure it had everseen. The outage was …

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram face worldwide outage
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram face worldwide outage

Hindustan Times  

Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were down in parts of the world on Monday. The company did not say what might be causing the outage The company said it was “aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app” and it was working on restoring access. Facebook is going through a major crisis after the whistleblower who …

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after hours-long blackout
3 years, 3 months ago

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after hours-long blackout

Al Jazeera  

Facebook, Instagram and the widely-used WhatsApp messaging service are gradually returning to normal after an hours-long global outage that disabled the Facebook-owned social media platforms for some six hours. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry,” Facebook said. “We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services …

Facebook profits top $10B as its CEO exalts the ‘metaverse’
3 years, 5 months ago

Facebook profits top $10B as its CEO exalts the ‘metaverse’

Associated Press  

Concerns about a revenue growth slowdown pushed Facebook’s shares lower in after-hours trading Wednesday, not long after the company reported that its second-quarter profits doubled thanks to a massive increase in advertising revenue. In a conference call with analysts, Zuckerberg called the metaverse the “next generation of the internet and next chapter for us as a company,” one that he …

Zuckerberg says WhatsApp is under threat... from Apple iMessage
3 years, 11 months ago

Zuckerberg says WhatsApp is under threat... from Apple iMessage

India Today  

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has voiced his opinion against Apple’s privacy policies and how it will affect the social media giant’s business. Facebook had alleged that Apple’s new policy that requires the apps to add privacy labels on it and provide information to users about how much data an app collects. However, Facebook has been miffed ever since and has …

WhatsApp resumes normal functioning after global outage
5 years, 10 months ago

WhatsApp resumes normal functioning after global outage

India Today  

WhatsApp along with other apps in Facebook's ambit suffered global outage on Thursday morning. You don't need to blame hackers for the issues that you are facing with WhatsApp or any other app owned by Facebook that you are using. While Facebook and Instagram users faced several issues, WhatsApp users in particular faced issues with a host of things including …

Facebook shares fall following fresh privacy breach allegations
6 years ago

Facebook shares fall following fresh privacy breach allegations

Live Mint  

London: Facebook Inc. shares dropped following a New York Times report that the social media company allowed more than 150 companies access to more users’ personal data than it had disclosed. According to the report, the social network had allowed Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine to see names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, and allowed other companies …

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics
6 years, 1 month ago

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics

NPR  

No Plans Of Leaving: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fires Back At Critics Enlarge this image toggle caption Chesnot/Getty Images Chesnot/Getty Images Despite calls for his resignation, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not planning to step down. Earlier this month, a damming New York Times investigation alleged that Zuckerberg, his lieutenant Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and others at …

As Facebook’s crises mount, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground in exclusive CNN interview
6 years, 1 month ago

As Facebook’s crises mount, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground in exclusive CNN interview

CNN  

New York CNN Business — After spending much of this year apologizing for Facebook’s many missteps, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was defiantin an exclusive interview with CNN Business on Tuesday. “A lot of the criticism around the biggest issues has been fair, but I do think that if we are going to be real, there is this bigger picture as well, …

Major Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman
6 years, 2 months ago

Major Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman

India Today  

Major Facebook investors want Mark Zuckerberg to step down as chairman of the company's board following several high-profile scandals. Four major US public funds -- state treasurers from Illinois, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer -- that hold shares in Facebook have proposed removing CEO Mark Zuckerberg as chairman, joining activist and original filer Trillium …

Facebook shares tumble over 20 per cent resulting in likely loss of $130 billion
6 years, 5 months ago

Facebook shares tumble over 20 per cent resulting in likely loss of $130 billion

India TV News  

Trouble for social media giant Facebook is refusing to end as the firm's shares have tumbled by more than 20 per cent. The firm, which is facing backlash for its handling of fake news and privacy, said it had 2.23 billion monthly active users at the end of June, BBC reported on Thursday. Facebook said it expected revenue gains to …

Mark Zuckerberg's wealth plunges by $15bn as Facebook shares suffer biggest one-day loss in US history
6 years, 5 months ago

Mark Zuckerberg's wealth plunges by $15bn as Facebook shares suffer biggest one-day loss in US history

The Telegraph  

Facebook has suffered the biggest one-day loss in market value in US history after its shares plunged 18pc following a disastrous second quarter update. Some $14.7bn was knocked off Mark Zuckerberg's personal wealth following the huge share price slide, leaving the Facebook founder with around $71.8bn. A "significant slowdown in revenue growth" and an expected decline in operating margins in …

Facebook loses over $120 billion in market cap after privacy scandal hits revenue, user growth
6 years, 5 months ago

Facebook loses over $120 billion in market cap after privacy scandal hits revenue, user growth

India Today  

Facebook's market value tanked as the company's shares went into a free fall amid the ongoing investigations regarding its data privacy scandal on Wednesday. We are committed to investing to keep people safe and secure, and to keep building meaningful new ways to help people connect," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said announcing the company's second quarter earnings. Facebook registered daily …

Zuckerberg overtakes Buffett to become third richest person in the world
6 years, 6 months ago

Zuckerberg overtakes Buffett to become third richest person in the world

The Telegraph  

Mark Zuckerberg has leapfrogged Warren Buffett to become the third richest person in the world, and is now said to be worth around $81.6bn. The shift in rankings, with Mr Zuckerberg's fortune now around $373m larger than Mr Buffett's, puts the Facebook founder only behind Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Microsoft's Bill Gates in terms of wealth, according to the Bloomberg …

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