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Facebook has acquired PlayGiga, a startup focused on cloud video games, as reported by CNBC. PlayGiga has one of the advanced video game streaming platforms in Europe. PlayGiga, based in the Spanish city of Madrid, has been working on online and cloud-based gaming since...

WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has fixed a severe security bug that could let a hacker crash the messaging app in a group chat and make the users use further only after reinstalling. The attack would prevent users from returning to the group chat. Moreover,...

A Facebook contractor has reportedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned accounts, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News.  A marketing agency based in San Diego, Ads Inc., reportedly paid $5,000 initially and then $3,000 each month to a contractor in Austin office...

Here are the top five tech news by popularity of last week. Singapore tells Facebook to correct anti-government post on 29 Nov An online news publishing website State Time Review shared a post on their Facebook page mentioning about an arrest of a whistleblower by the Singapore...

Singapore government asked Facebook to issue a correction notice on a post published by the State Times Review page. The country believes that the anti-government post contains “false statements of fact.” States Times Review (STR) is an online website that publishes political material. In its Facebook page,...

Dan Sundheim's D1 Capital Partners strengthened its position in Amazon by injecting $588 million during the third quarter, according to regulatory filings released Thursday. The hedge fund, which is investing heavily in FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google), also increased its stake in...

Instagram's CEO Adam Mosseri made an announcement at WIRED25 that the company will test hiding like counts in some U.S Instagram accounts. The company will start bringing these changes in limited accounts from next week. Instagram has already tested hiding like counts in...

The giant social networking company Facebook was also interested in buying Fitbit for $1 million that is approximately half of the amount Google offered to acquire it.  As we already reported about Google’s interest in buying Fitbit. Now, Google has acquired Fitbit for the...

There is a raised possibility that Facebook could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies, to bring its long-awaited Libra project into the action. In the wake of growing skepticism about its digital currency, David Marcus, the Head of Libra project for Facebook stated,  “Instead of...

In the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election Campaign, Bernie Sanders unveiled his idea of wealth tax. The veteran senator called "Billionaires shouldn't exist.." last week in Washington. He embraced this idea by theorizing tax reforms and its method of accumulation.   OECD again challenges...