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India 1st in South Asia on govt requests for user data from Big Tech firms
From 2013 to 2021, Meta and Google received the highest number of account requests from India, according to popular VPN service Surfshark. India ranked seventh in all of Asia with 58.7 accounts requested per 100,000 people. The research showed that globally, countries requested more than 6.6 million accounts combined during the 9-year period, while India requested 823,000.
WhatsApp rolling out new updates for 'communities' on iOS, Android
According to WABetaInfo, the company has renamed the announcement group to "Home" on WhatsApp beta for Android, and its new name is "Updates" on WhatsApp beta for iOS. The community feature on WhatsApp allows users to create and join groups of people who share similar interests or hobbies.
WhatsApp working on new chat attachment menu for Android beta
The tweaked chat attachment menu is more clearer and offers a better user-friendly experience, reports WABetaInfo. The new chat attachment menu is currently under development, and is expected to be released in a future update of the application. Earlier this month, the messaging platform was working on a redesigned chat attachment menu for iOS beta.
Has Mark Zuckerberg taken a pay cut, asks sacked Meta employee
"I was part of today's #metalayoffs while on maternity leave. I understand changes in market trends and focus on the business's bottom line. I don't understand how #metaleadership miscalculated so badly that they had to lay off thousands of employees, and yet still want to claim that they care about the people who work for them," Allen wrote in her LinkedIn post.
Translucia unveils first-ever 'Multiverse Convergence' solution to make Web3 accessible to all
LightLink is the world's first enterprise Layer-2 (L2) Blockchain built to accelerate the entry of traditional businesses into Web3, said the company. By offering a low cost and easily accessible final to enter multiple third-party metaverses, LightLink enables businesses to move into Web3 at scale.
'I'm not giving up': Sacked Indian-origin Meta worker
Susmita Sahu, who worked in a Talent Accelerator Recruiting Team in Singapore, wrote in her LinkedIn post: "While I'm still processing what happened and I'm in true loss of the right words, I'm grateful for having an opportunity to work with some AMAZING people out there."
Engineers who joined in-person perform better than remote workers: Zuckerberg
According to him, the early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely. This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when they.
Meta CEO fires 10K more employees, shuts 5K additional open roles
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg said overall, "we expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven't yet hired" in the company's "year of efficiency". In a separate filing with the US SEC, Meta said the new job cuts will lower the high end of its expense guidance for the year by $3 billion.
'Times are hard, road ahead is going to be tough': Sacked Meta worker
Sutha Sehgar, who worked as a talent acquisition, wrote in her LinkedIn post: "Apparently it's a tradition to take badge photo when you leave Meta but I did not realise that the timeline would be this short. Meta laid off 11K of its staff and unfortunately, I'm impacted too together with my wonderful teammates."
Instagram's new feature to let users access recently shared Reels
A Turkey-based account called Dijital Aglar shared a post about the feature, indicating that Instagram is showing a row at the top of users' DMs with the "Latest Shares" label, reports TechCrunch. The report said that the screenshots posted by the account show that shared posts will also display the avatars of the friends with whom you shared a Reel.
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