The global giants of the web are traveling at full speed also in 2021. In the first half of 2021 the growth in turnover was double-digit (+ 31,1%) equal to 667 billion euros and in Italy they are worth 4,6 billion euros . The Mediobanca Research Area presents the annual survey on the 25 Software & Web companies worldwide with a [...]
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Since last May there has not been such a black day for world stock exchanges. A day to forget, all the stock exchanges were affected by the setback of Wall Street which yesterday closed in sharp decline due to the effects, not exactly exciting, of the new wave of Covid-19 cases, mainly linked to the spread of [ ...]
read more(by Federica De Stefani, lawyer and head of Aidr Regione Lombardia) In 2019 the data of over 500 million registered users on Facebook ended up in the hands of hackers: the data breach is now a couple of years old, but the concern it arouses this subtraction is extremely current. Those data, in fact, despite the [...]
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The Ministry of Economy and Finance, with the desire to be even closer to citizens, expands its presence on social networks, opening an official page on the Facebook platform. The page, accessible at the link www.facebook.com/ministeroigianatoefinanze/, aims to provide information on the activities carried out by the dicastery for institutional purposes and on all initiatives, [...]
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Roberto Gualtieri on the sidelines of the meeting of the IMF and the World Bank and the G20 in Washington said at a press conference: "The reduction of the public debt is all the more credible the more realistic it is". Gualtieri is convinced that with the economic maneuver presented in Brussels, which has yet to pass the examination of the Parliament, [...]
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Reuters announces the important news. #Huawei will no longer install the "social" applications #Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp in the factory; this is due to the ongoing trade war between the US and China, which has already led #Google to remove the official #Android support from the Chinese giant's smartphones. The reason is due to the fact that Huawei is inside the [...]
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Mussolini "banned" from Facebook because of the uncomfortable surname. "Facebook as a social center"
“I want to reassure everyone: I will not campaign with fasces, Roman greetings and fezzes. However, I find it unacceptable that Facebook closes my personal profile just because my surname is Mussolini. Yesterday I was blocked until April 11th, despite not having written anything “. This was stated in a note by Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini, [...]
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Facebook has announced that it has deleted from the network about 3 pages, groups and accounts based in Iran, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Russia for providing incorrect information on their activities. According to the note issued by the management of the social network, no links were found between the activities indicated in the respective profiles and [...]
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The online newspaper Il Dolomiti has published an interesting article that reveals the "illegal" way in which the smuggling of migrants and the trafficking of human beings from African countries to Europe is developing. The research on the role of the Internet and social networks on the burning topic is called "Surf and sound" [...]
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The spokesperson for the Tripoli-based International Telecommunications Company said Facebook went down due to a malfunction of the international provider. Similarly, a Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT) official told reporters that Facebook has not been blocked but has encountered a technical error, and that they are contacting the [...]
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Facebook has stated that a "race to defend itself against bad actors" is underway. The social media giant said that strong investments are underway in the security sector, created with the aim of defending the platform and preventing it from being used to subvert or influence the process [...]
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Facebook would have signed agreements with dozens of manufacturers of mobile phones and other electronic devices, with the relative sharing of some user data, the New York Times wrote last Sunday. The company founded by Mark Zuckerberg, the NYT writes, has data sharing agreements dating back to 2010 with at least four Chinese manufacturers, including [...]
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A huge amount of Facebook ads bought by Russian groups during the 2016 US elections sought to instill divisions and discord over racial issues. And the closer we got to the election date, the more the ads insisted on this topic. This was reported by the USA Today newspaper which analyzed the more than 3500 advertisement (ads) [...]
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Facebook after the meager figure of the Cambridge Analytica scandal is working to grow its reputation with useful services for security. Yesterday he announced that he is also dealing with counter-terrorism: he would have developed an algorithm capable of tracking down and removing from the platform propaganda content linked to extremist groups, in [...]
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The co-founder of WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned messaging service with over 1 billion daily users, said today he will be leaving the company. Jan Koum's exit plan comes after the clash with the parent company over WhatApp's strategy and Facebook's attempts to use his personal data [...]
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The most famous and widespread social network in the world has activated the option for facial recognition also in Europe, after having withdrawn it in 2012, and at the same time the alerts to users have been launched with the possibility to choose whether to activate this possibility or not. "If you activate this setting, we will use facial recognition technology to understand when [...]
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Facebook's concern for data privacy is growing after it emerged that the world's largest social network tracks people regardless of having an account. Privacy concerns have flooded Facebook since it admitted last month that information on millions of users [...]
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On the second day of the hearing at the Energy and Commerce Commission of the American Chamber of Representatives, the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had to address the issue of privacy. The social network does not come out very well. One of the most significant passages of yesterday's hearing appears to be the response provided by the founder and CEO of Facebook, to [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The fault is mine alone and I take responsibility for it personally and I have no intention of resigning. Thus Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook in front of the assembled commissions of commerce and justice of the US Senate. The well-known events that have affected the social network [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'ELIA) Mark Zuckerberg today and tomorrow will be before the trade and justice committees of the American Senate to report on the recent scandals that have affected his invention, Facebook. The prospect of new laws restricting Facebook and other internet companies is extremely unlikely not only due to a lack of political will [...]
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Facebook said yesterday that the personal information of 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly exchanged with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, compared to a previous estimate of more than 50 million on average. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call [...]
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Less than half of Americans trust Facebook under U.S. privacy laws, after a Reuters / Ipsos poll released today illustrating the challenge faced by the social media network following the personal information scandal. The survey, conducted from Wednesday to Friday, also found that fewer [...]
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Anyone tempted to participate in the #DeleteFacebook campaign after the personal data of millions of users has fallen into the hands of a political consultancy is likely to be monitored by the social network, which tracks nearly 30% of global web traffic. And Google (GOOGL.O), in various forms, obscures 64 percent [...]
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Facebook, in the words of its founder Zuckerberg, said that its users' data cannot be completely safe. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Facebook explained that the investigation launched by the group, after the scandal associated with the alleged abuses of Cambridge Analytica will help to identify and discourage who [...]
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that his company has made mistakes in processing data belonging to 50 million users and has promised tougher measures to restrict developers' access to the data. The largest social media network in the world is facing increasing scrutiny by [...]
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Cambridge Analytica, accused and investigated for the affair of private data stolen from the network on Facebook and used to influence important electoral campaigns. The company collected the personal data of over 50 million social media users, violating its policy and influencing the US presidential elections, Brexit and other election campaigns, according to [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The diatribe between Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica company demonstrates what exists behind social networks and how they can influence the opinion of unsuspecting users. Let's go into the details of the story to discover the unimaginable. Facebook said it had suspended political analytics company Cambridge Analytica from the network, which [...]
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Targeting advertising by listening to people's interests via smartphones is one of the fears raised by many users of social networks. According to the "Wall Street Journal" the fear is unfounded and cites a statement from Facebook in which it denies that the company uses smartphone microphones to target advertisements or [...]
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Facebook has decided to entrust a group of journalists with the task of selecting the real news from those of dubious reliability. Google and Facebook are realizing that journalistic professionalism is important. In this context, it is urgent to safeguard a system of safeguards and rules ”. This was stated, in an interview with Corriere della Sera, on [...]
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Facebook is working on artificial intelligence and virtual reality. The social network has recruited, in this regard, one of the scientists behind the launch of Watson (IBM) and one of the pioneers of virtual reality. Jérôme Pesenti, who joined Ibm following the purchase by that group of the company he co-founded Vivismimo, takes on a new position in [...]
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The major Apple investors had asked to change the rules to avoid the excessive dependence of children on smartphones. For some time, Facebook has been thinking of some systems that can keep the frenzy of users at bay by continuously consulting the most famous social network in the world. The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, spoke in [...]
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Zuckerberg, Facebook at a crossroads: the 2018 will be the year of choices and requires my attention
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that his goal for 2018 is to build the business on a stronger footing. "The world is anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do", Zuckerberg, is one of the richest people in the world and wrote a [...]
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The Wall Street Journal revealed a major Facebook news from next year. Commercials will be placed at the beginning of the videos which will last approximately six seconds. The novelty will not affect the users' wall, but will appear only on the videos on the dedicated platform called Watch. The social network, which had previously denied [...]
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Who said social media are useless? Facebook is integrating its services with new initiatives in favor of the third sector and public aid. New tools for the safety of its users and greater attention to the third sector during the second Social Good Forum in New York. Among the news [...]
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The proposal by Ajit Pai, president of the FCC (Federal communciation commission), to dismantle net neutrality has aroused strong protests from US-made web companies, starting with Google and Facebook, but also from startups. The BBC writes it. The principle of net neutrality in the US was sanctioned by law in 2015 [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, the spokesman for the Yemeni Shiite rebel group Houthi, Mohammed Abdel Salam, has launched new threats against Saudi Arabia by talking about the strength of its ballistic missile arsenal. Commenting on the document issued last November 19 by the Arab League condemning the missile raid by Yemeni rebels on Riyadh, Abdel Salam […]
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Journalist Shapiro, on The Washington Post - (TWP), reported on how FACEBOOK, unknowingly, helped influence the recent elections in the US by circulating news to voters, which contained subliminal messages, generated by an agency created in Russia in St. Petersburg. Some messages posted on Facebook supported Trump's campaign, others attacked [...]
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During the 2016 election campaign, approximately 126 million Americans may have opened posts on Facebook with content "manipulated" by the Russian government. This is what emerges from a statement drawn up by Colin Stretch, legal representative of the aforementioned social network and filed with the Senate Justice Commission. To publish this news, that [...]
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Google and Facebook are leaders on internet connections at the end of the first half of 2017, both registering an increase of over 2016 million users compared to June 2. This is what emerges from the Communications Observatory released today by Agcom, which specifies that on average browsing on Facebook and Whatsapp is slightly less than [...]
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Facebook tries to get around the restrictions imposed by Beijing and launches an app in China without its name. For Mark Zuckerberg this is an unprecedented move after having tried for years the path of 'diplomacy', through meetings with Chinese politicians, the study of Mandarin and interventions in public. Attempts that have not [...]
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