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Musk vs Zuckerberg: Will Meta's Threads successfully take on Twitter?

Meta's new short messaging platform Threads is aiming to take on Twitter. It saw 10 million sign ups within just seven hours of launch...

Corporate

Singapore hit by layoffs again as ride hailing and delivery app Grab cuts 1,000 jobs

All the layoffs would not be in Singapore, as Grab has a presence across Southeast Asia, including neighbouring Malaysia. Grab bought Uber...

Corporate

Meta layoffs: Singapore jobs at risk as Facebook’s parent company begins third round of cuts

Meta eliminated some 11,000 jobs globally in November 2022; of them, an estimated 50 were from Singapore. The second round of layoffs came...

Singapore

WATCH: Viral video of man struggling to close door in Antarctic storm

A video clip reportedly showing someone trying desperately to close a door during an Antarctic storm has gone viral, with over 24 million...

Travel

Meta layoffs in Singapore: Promoted a month ago, laid off this week

Meta, the parent company of the social networks Facebook and Instagram, has started its second round of layoffs in Singapore. It is expected...

Singapore

Not for India, don’t take: Singapore Malay woman and Indian husband ‘shooed away’ from Ramzan snack stand

A Malay-Indian Muslim woman in Singapore describes how she and her Indian Muslim husband were very rudely driven away from a Ramzan snack...

Singapore

Facebook parent warns of pulling down news from platform

Facebook parent Meta threatened to remove news from its platform if the US Congress passes a proposal aimed at making it easier for news...

Corporate

Whatsapp, Meta executives in India branches resign

Meta India's country lead for public policy Rajiv Aggarwal has quit today, the social media giant confirmed. WhatsApp's India head Abhijit...

Corporate

Singapore passes new law to curb 'harmful' social media content

Singapore passs a law against social media platforms Facebook, TikTok, and others to remove “egregious content” such as those promoting...

Singapore

Facebook parent Meta to fire over 11,000 employees

Facebook's parent company Meta today announced that it would be firing around 13 per cent of its workforce. The broad job cuts follow...

Corporate

Meta gears up for mass firings this week: Reports

Facebook parent Meta is preparing for large-scale layoffs that are expected to affect many thousands of employees. Meta gears up for mass...

Corporate

WhatsApp suffers longest ever outage

Global messaging service WhatsApp went down for about two hours today, the longest ever outage in its history.

Global

Nonagenarian Indian goes back to her Pakistan home after 75 years

Ninety-year-old Reena Varma finally went back to the house in Rawalpindi city, Pakistan that she had dreamed about for 75 years.

India Spotlight - @work

How can video marketing step up the success of SMEs?

Video marketing is the key for SMEs to step-up their online presence and achieve success in the cut-throat business world.

SMEs

Russia ups crackdown on media, shuts access to Facebook

Russia's government and tech giants has tension. Russia has fully restricted access to Facebook after the social media platform made it...

Global

Indian Embassy in Ukraine issues evacuation advisory; Air India to run three flights

Russia Ukraine crisis created tensions and uncertainties with respect to the situation in Ukraine, all Indian nationals are advised to leave...

Global

Indian government's tense meeting with tech firms over fake news: Reports

Indian officials reportedly held heated discussions with Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they described as...

India

International Sikh news portal alleges censorship by Facebook

An article on the website of the news portal Sikh24 claims that the hashtag #sikh has been blocked by the social media giant.

Global

Facebook to give SGD4.75 million in grants to small businesses in Singapore

Facebook Singapore will be providing SGD 4.75 million in grants to businesses in the country that have experienced challenges due to the...

SMEs

NTU and Facebook pilot programme to develop data centre talents in Singapore

Tech giant Facebook has partnered Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) to launch a pilot programme aimed at developing local...

Singapore

Mukesh Ambani moves ahead of Jack Ma as Asia’s richest person after Facebook deal: Bloomberg

In a massive deal, Facebook Inc. will be investing USD 5.7 billion in Ambani’s Jio Platform - the social networking leader’s biggest...

Corporate

Facebook invests SGD 8.15 billion in India's Jio Platforms

The tech giant said the investment aims to enable new opportunities for businesses of all sizes in India, in particular, the more than 60...

Corporate

Facebook issues correction notice under Singapore government’s ‘fake news’ law

A post by Facebook user Alex Tan, who runs the States Times Review blog, has been embedded with a correction label, at the request of the...

Singapore

Facebook’s dating feature goes live in 20 countries, including USA and Singapore

Facebook Dating is the social media giant’s latest feature and is currently restricted to 20 countries.

Gadgets

WhatsApp launches 'tipline' to counter fake news

To counter circulation of fake news in the time of elections in India scheduled to start from April 11, WhatsApp has launched a 'tipline'...

Global