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Meta to allow for ads in 'Instagram search results' via its Marketing API
With this new addition, users will be able to update their app to enable their clients to create and preview ads in Instagram search results via API. "Starting today, we now allow for ads in Instagram search results via the Instagram Marketing API. This new ads placement will be available on all current Marketing API versions, and does not require an upgrade," Meta said in a blogpost on Wednesday.
Meta global layoffs hits India, top executives among those asked to go
According to reports, Avinash Pant, director of marketing for India, Saket Jha Saurabh, director of media partnerships, and Amrita Mukherjee, director, legal, Meta India were among those laid off in India. Moneycontrol first reported about Mukherjee, who was Hotstar's head of legal before joining Meta, being asked to go.
Meta conducts another layoff round, 6K jobs to be axed
These job cuts were part of the company's so-called "Year of Efficiency," in which Meta is being restructured to cut costs, reports TechCrunch. The third round of layoffs affected Meta's business departments. Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in March that the company will cut 10,000 jobs across two rounds of layoffs in late April and late May.
Meta fined record $1.3 bn for violating EU data transfer rules
The Irish watchdog said that Meta violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force on May 25, 2018. The Wall Street Journal was first to report about the landmark penalty on Meta. The ruling applies only to Facebook and not Instagram and WhatsApp.
2 lakh tech employees lose jobs in 2023 to date, more in the offing
As per the data by layoffs tracking site Layoffs.fyi, 695 tech companies have shown the doors to around 1.98 lakh employees so far this year. In comparison, 1,046 tech companies laid off more than 1.61 lakh employees in 2022. In January alone this year, close to 1 lakh tech employees lost jobs globally, dominated by companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce and others.
Instagram likely to launch Twitter-like app by June end
The Twitter-like platform, "Instagram's new text-based app for conversations" is apparently codenamed P92 or Barcelona, according to Lia Haberman, who shared the news in her ICYMI Substack newsletter. "Say more with Instagram's new text-based app for conversations. Talk directly with your audience and peers," according.
Meta may fire 6K workers in its 3rd round of job cuts next week: Report
The layoffs will affect Meta's business departments and could affect thousands of employees, reports Vox. "The third wave is going to happen next week. That affects everybody in the biz teams, including in my orgs," Meta president of global affairs Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying.
Insta now let users comment on posts with GIFs
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri announced that users can now post GIFs in Instagram comments during a Broadcast Channels chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reports Engadget. "This is a bit of 'finally feature,' but we're launching GIFs in comments today," Mosseri told Zuckerberg.
Grateful of IT Minister's acknowledgment of our user safety efforts in India: WhatsApp
Vaishnaw on Tuesday launched the Sanchar Saathi portal, on the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, that will help millions of people track their lost or stolen mobile phones, and mentioned WhatsApp's cooperation with the government to ensure customer safety.
Mark Zuckerberg announces Chat Lock on WhatsApp
The feature will let users protect their most intimate conversations with a password and secures them in a separate folder. "New locked chats in WhatsApp make your conversations more private. They're hidden in a password protected folder and notifications won't show sender or message content," said Zuckerberg.
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