Global Six Hour Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram Outage

Facebook had a six-hour outage, which prevented users from refreshing their feeds or sending messages, was caused by “configuration changes on the backbone routers,”. They did not specify exactly what the changes were. The changes caused “issues” that interrupted the flow of traffic between routers in Facebook’s data centers around the world. This was longest …

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Apple Will Privacy Improvement Will Cut Facebook Ad Revenue

The Apple iOS 14 operating system will require apps to ask users for permission to collect and share data using Apple’s device identifier. Facebook will not collect the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) on our own apps on iOS 14 devices. The identifier was critical for Facebook targeting its audience network ads. Facebook says the Apple …

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How AI is Changing Influencer Marketing

Tal Melenboim discusses how AI will take influencer marketing to the next level. Influencer marketing has always been here and is constantly evolving. The next evolution that is taking over influencer marketing and changing it is AI. Here’s how AI is affecting influencer marketing and how you can embrace this change to get the most out of it.

Facebook Talks to US, UK Governments and Visa and Mastercard about Globalcoin

Facebook is talking with U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) about Facebook’s planned Globalcoin. It will be a crypto stablecoin initiative. The Financial Times reports the CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo said the agency held very early stages of conversations with Facebook. The goal was to better understand if the firm’s crypto stablecoin could potentially …

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Trusting Zuckerberg and Facebook Is Like Chickens Trusting KFC

In 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Privacy is Dead and for people to get over it. In 2010, Mark said if he were to create Facebook again then all user information would by default be public. Mark Zuckerberg has recently wrote that Facebook will create a privacy-focused social network based upon Whatsapp. Everything that …

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The Feudal-age of Social Networks Is Over – Here’s What’s Next

There are over 3.484 billion active social media users on scores of social networks. The major share of these users are active on Facebook as it has 2.3 billion users. It is the most popular social network, but there always seems to be some controversy around it. When it was launched the controversy surrounding it …

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