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OCTOBER 4, 2020

It offers a glimpse into how the Menlo Park, California-based social media conglomerate will defend itself against federal antitrust prosecutors and members of Congress about its power and competitive behavior. It was not a guarantee that Instagram was going to succeed," Zuckerberg said. "In

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CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the press conference, California Attorney General Rob Bonta summarized the first year of enforcement of the CCPA and provided specific examples of actions businesses have taken to rectify alleged violations following receipt of a notice of noncompliance. Enforcement updates.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

According to the site DownDetector, the outage has spread to several high-profile sites including Vonage, Reddit, iTunes, GrubHub, Southern California Edison, Square, Chime, Fidelity, Roku, Alexa and Spotfiy. “The team has identified the root cause and is working on resolving the issue affecting this subsystem,” the notice said.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Under a revamp, the strictest measures would apply to larger social media companies, according to the newswire, citing government sources. Social media firms such as Facebook and WhatsApp would face the stricter rules, which would also require that companies remove content deemed unlawful within 24 hours. In India, Too.

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MAY 1, 2020

advertisers probably won’t “like” its subpar rating from a media industry watchdog. The Media Rating Council (MRC) review found that the California-based social media giant has failed to address advertisers’ concerns arising from an Ernst & Young audit over how it measures and reports data about video advertisements. .

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The companies say that the social media giant removed developers’ access to its program in an attempt to hurt potential competitors. District Court for the Northern District of California. Facebook has been sued by four companies regarded alleged anti-competitive practices, according to a report by Reuters.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

Facebook , which is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, opened a new office this week in Boston. The social media company invited some journalists along for a tour of the facilities, giving them a rare inside look at one of the world’s biggest companies and how it treats employees.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

23) on the landmark complaint against the Menlo Park, California-based tech giant. PYMNTS has contended that the companies are not, in fact, monopolies because much of their time is spent competing for the same venues of the economy, including grocery shopping and social media. A DOJ spokeswoman declined to comment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The group, based in Geneva, Switzerland, was founded by Facebook to launch the social media company’s entry into digital currency. Mint’s decision to phase out the production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. San Francisco, California. The social media giant said in August that it had more than 20,600 employees. Menlo Park, California.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

It also said Thompson had said she would shoot up a social media company in California, although it isn’t known which one. The government found “multiple terabytes” of stolen data from other countries, educational entities and institutions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The social media giant announced the program in 2017. “We The company has been working to make the technology a reality through a partnership between Facebook Reality Labs, a division that studies long-term tech products and hardware, and researchers from the University of California , San Francisco, according to CNBC.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

and Australia, all called on the social media giant to stop the plan to use encryption unless it gave law enforcement access. . Apple had to deal with a legal fight in 2016 over access to the phone of the perpetrator of the San Bernardino shootings in California. . That is not something we are prepared to do.”.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

and Australia, all called on the social media giant to stop the plan to use encryption unless it gave law enforcement access. . Apple had to deal with a legal fight in 2016 over access to the phone of the perpetrator of the San Bernardino shootings in California. . That is not something we are prepared to do.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how online reviews are treated in the future. The case could also influence how much responsibility third-party platforms have when consumers complain about goods and services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

politician said Facebook was aware that Russian-linked organizations were harvesting data from the social media giant, since October 2014, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reported that the documents were sealed by California courts. Facebook previously said it was unaware of the activity until after the 2016 election.

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MARCH 2, 2020

The social media firm canceled the in-person component, which would have been held in California. They had reportedly already cut back spending on Geneva and other industry gatherings. In separate news, Facebook called off its yearly F8 developers’ conference due to concerns over the Coronavirus.

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JULY 31, 2019

Facebook has reached out to Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Disney and Amazon about putting their services on a brand new streaming device the social media company is planning on releasing, according to reports. The social media giant announced the program in 2017. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ByteDance, the company that owns popular social media app TikTok, is attempting to separate itself from its Chinese operations, as a probe of the company is ongoing, according to a report by CNBC. . The company also has plans for a data management team in Mountain View, California. to lessen the company’s reliance on China. .

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

HSBC To Staff: Stay Off Bank’s Social Media Accounts . The 233,000 global staffers of HSBC Holdings Plc were told to remain off the bank’s social media sites on Monday (Sept. The 233,000 global staffers of HSBC Holdings Plc were told to remain off the bank’s social media sites on Monday (Sept.

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MARCH 22, 2020

And in India, popular social media app WhatsApp has engineered the “MyGov Corona Helpdesk” for all citizens to turn to for information and resources regarding the virus. Other uses of modern technology have included the use of drones in California to help enforce the state’s lockdown status.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

28) that will let organizations offer ultra-secure payments across a multitude of channels, from social media to email and everything in between. Secure payments provider PCI Pal launched a new digital service on Tuesday (Jan. This will allow a seamless process, and an uninterrupted payments journey.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

District Court for the Southern District of California, where TikTok’s American operations are based, as soon as Tuesday (Aug. While Microsoft has been working for weeks to close a deal for TikTok’s purchase, Twitter has held preliminary talks with the Chinese company to combine the two mega social media platforms.

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APRIL 17, 2018

The class will consist of Facebook users in Illinois for whom the social media site created and stored facial recognition algorithms after June 7, 2011, Donato ruled. That’s the date when Facebook launched “Tag Suggestions,” a feature that suggests people to tag after a user uploads a photo.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Also in January, the social media giant opened a 130,000-square-foot office in Cambridge , Massachusetts. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has other offices in cities all around the country, including Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

ByteDance, the company that owns popular social media app TikTok, is attempting to separate itself from its Chinese operations, as a probe of the company is ongoing, according to a report by CNBC. . The company also has plans for a data management team in Mountain View, California. to lessen the company’s reliance on China. .

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JUNE 1, 2020

Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. On the heels of the U.S. Kathryn Haun said cash is on its way out in the same way books and music have gone digital.

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JULY 13, 2020

Celebrities including Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled backed the project on social media. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) charged California’s Abra for failing to register before offering and selling securities-based swaps. They falsely claimed to have a Harvard-educated CEO backing them. And, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California said the investors can refile at a later date. He added that the investors did not succeed in connecting Facebook’s statements to losses or proving that the social media giant’s executives knowingly made false statements. However, U.S.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Gen Z, the younger generation, has transitioned into the workforce and is primarily being targeted through social media messages and chatbots,” Fratangelo says. While devoting more space on your bank’s website or in your social media posts related to financial fraud prevention is good, more will always be needed,” he says.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Apple , the Cupertino, California iPhone maker, has identified issues that are negatively impacting some iPhone X smartphones and 13-inch MacBook Pro products, which the company said it will fix for free. The keyboards were being complained about on social media for being too noisy and for not working out of nowhere.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

According to the site DownDetector, the outage had spread to several high-profile sites including Vonage, Reddit, iTunes, GrubHub, Southern California Edison, Square, Chime, Fidelity, Roku, Alexa and Spotfiy.

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CFPB Monitor

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Facebook of discriminating against women and individuals over 40 who were denied advertisements and information about certain financial services opportunities, including those for bank accounts, insurance and investing. A purported class action filed last week in the U.S.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

The report quoted Jeff Marsilio, the NBA’s senior vice president of new media distribution, as saying, “The Base:Line playlist will have about 40 songs with a hip-hop vibe and will be refreshed weekly.” The NBA exec said the tracks will also be on the organization’s website, on its app and featured on social media game highlights.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Facebook, the world’s leading social media platform, reported last week that it lost about 1 million monthly active users (MAU) in Europe due to the new regulations, leaving it with 376 million. GDPR Takes Toll on Facebook Engagement Figures. Two months since its implementation, GDPR is showing an impact. The platform has more than 2.2

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings is looking to hire self-driving car engineers in Palo Alto, California. “We In September, China’s largest social media and gaming company announced a major restructuring for the first time in six years.

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APRIL 19, 2016

.” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. A 2014 Eventbrite study found that while music festivals are obviously a source of massive social media activity, comparatively little of it occurs while the festivals are going on.

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