Enterprise tech news and intelligence in the Philippines
The past few months have been busy for reporters covering the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and its attached agencies. Telegram, Roblox, Reddit, and Discord have all been…
The Philippines’ House of Representatives has called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to attend a hearing on social media safety. Lawmakers want answers about harmful content on Meta’s platforms, particularly…
Users reported widespread issues across Meta platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, on Friday evening (June 12, Philippine time), with many saying they were unexpectedly logged out of their accounts.…
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, reported a profit of $22.8 billion on revenue of nearly $60 billion for the most recent quarter, citing artificial…
DoubleVerify (DV), a software platform that verifies media quality and ad performance, rolled out the expansion of its post-bid brand suitability measurement across 30 content-level categories on Meta’s Facebook and…
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, is making big changes to how it handles content in the United States. It will stop using third-party fact-checkers and start a…
Smart Communications Inc. (Smart), a wireless subsidiary of PLDT Inc., is partnering with Google Cloud and Meta to offer more services to its subscribers. Smart recently unveiled its collaboration with…
Facebook, the company, tries to reinvent by creating an umbrella organization (Meta) for its suite of apps and technologies. At Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement emphasizing that…
With more enterprises and consumers embracing digitalization, it cannot be helped that they leave digital footprints for every log-in in different websites. Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, through an anonymized data,…
Image from Tokyo 2020 Facebook page At the closing ceremonies of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Japan clearly stole the show with its video teaser featuring everything the world loves about…
The Facebook Journalism Project and Reuters launched a free e-learning program. The Reuters Digital Journalism Course aims to support journalists in eight countries across the Asia Pacific and India to…
In time for Mother’s Day, Facebook will be holding a series of webinars geared toward what it calls “mompreneurs.” The “Run by Mom” program will air tonight (May 7) at…
Early this week, some people have been complaining about indiscriminate tagging on Facebook of an account they are not familiar with. Unsuspecting users may have clicked on the links and…
As inoculation rolls out in many local government units in the Philippines, the spread of vaccine misinformation is also increasing. In partnership with social media platforms Facebook, Google, TikTok, and…
Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks’ latest research, threat actors have been cybersquatting in popular domains in order to deceive unsuspecting victims. It found more than 2,000 domain squatters distributing malware…
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has invited Facebook Philippines for a meeting on Tuesday to seek more information regarding the numerous reports of impostor Facebook accounts. Last week, Facebook users…
Early on Sunday, Facebook timeline has been flooded with pleas to help users report cloned accounts. The incident spread like wildfire and friends helped each other in trying to block…
Facebook’s security woes seem to be in a perpetual grind. In a report, investigative cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs through is KrebsOnSecurity learned that the social network has stored user account…
(Image from Pixabay) In a blog post, Facebook says 50 million of its 2.23 billion active users have been affected by a reported security breach. Facebook’s engineering team detected a…
(Screencap from NameTests website) When it rains, it pours. Facebook is still recovering from the massive crisis brought by the Cambridge Analytica scandal and yet another data leak exposé is…
The already troubled — and beaten up — social networking site Facebook once again fell victim to a bug compromising the privacy of its 14 million users. What users thought…
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