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23/04/2024 Google Meet now lets users make annotations during presentations ( General )
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Retail Asia24/01/2023

End-to-end encrypted chats isn’t a new feature for Messenger. Six years ago, the feature was introduced via Secret Conversations, but default end-to-end encrypted chats has been a beta feature for very long time (and it still is). However, Meta has decided that now would be a good time to enroll more Messenger users into the beta […]

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Retail Asia16/12/2022

Forty-two foreign suppliers, including Facebook, Google and TikTok, have paid VND3.44 trillion ($146.40 million) in taxes to Vietnam this year, according to the new portal of the General Department of Taxation. The portal was established in March to make it easier for cross-border giants to pay their taxes in Vietnam, the department said in a […]

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Retail Asia23/11/2022

Facebook is taking another step toward strengthening teens protection by introducing a new set of privacy tools. The social app announced today some updates to its policy of protecting young people from harm. After releasing similar features last year to restrict adults from messaging teens they aren’t connected to, this year Facebook plans to introduce […]

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Retail Asia10/11/2022

Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it would cut more than 11,000 jobs, or 13% of its workforce, as the Facebook parent doubled down on its risky metaverse bet amid a crumbling advertising market and decades-high inflation. The mass layoffs, one of the biggest this year and the first in Meta’s 18-year history, follow thousands […]

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Retail Asia27/10/2022

This has not been a good year for Mark Zuckerberg’s wallet. Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, which allows iPhone users to opt-out of being tracked for the purpose of receiving personalized advertising, is expected to cost Facebook $10 billion in revenue this year. That is a mighty big chunk of change and led investors to dump […]

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Retail Asia12/10/2022

On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Meta’s new $1,499 Quest Pro Virtual Reality (VR) headset. VR gives the user the immersive experience of being in a fabricated environment that is not real, no matter how realistic it looks. Meta’s CEO and co-founder took a shot at Apple which is supposed to unveil its own pricey mixed-reality […]

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Retail Asia26/09/2022

When Apple started to allow iPhone users to opt-out of getting tracked by third-party apps with the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) feature last year, Facebook complained the loudest with CEO Mark Zuckerberg shelling out the big bucks it costs to run full-page ads in some big-time newspapers. And as it turned out, Zuckerberg knew exactly what […]

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Retail Asia14/09/2022

Meta has just announced it will launch a new feature in Facebook and Messenger, which will allow users to start group chats directly in these apps. Called Community Chats, the new feature will first be tested in Messenger and will expand to more Facebook Groups in the coming weeks. The ability to start Community Chats in Messenger should allows […]

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Retail Asia22/07/2022

Facebook is gaining a new way for users to consume content from friends, Favorites, Pages and groups – a chronologically ordered Feed tab. Mark Zuckerberg posted a short demo of the feature on Thursday, saying it is one of the most requested features on Facebook. “One of the most requested features for Facebook is to make sure […]

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Retail Asia07/06/2022

Cross-borders platforms like Facebook and Google have paid VND5.1 trillion ($220 million) in taxes for the period between 2018 and 2021, says Finance Minister Ho Duc Phoc. He informed lawmakers in a report that by April 2021, Facebook had been taxed VND1.97 trillion; Google, VND1.9 trillion; and Microsoft, VND651 billion. The figures were 15 percent […]

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Retail Asia25/05/2022

Facebook parent Meta will charge a 5 percent value added tax on all Vietnamese advertisements starting June 1 after assuring the government it will fulfill its tax obligations. Meta executives last week told Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh that the company would register and pay tax as a foreign contractor doing business in Vietnam. Authorities […]

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Retail Asia11/05/2022

Facebook will no longer be collecting data from a number of its geolocation services. Hence, features that previously tracked your real-time location, including Nearby Friends and weather alerts among others, will soon be discontinued (after May 31st, 2022). In a statement for The Verge, a representative from Meta – Facebook’s parent company – confirmed the […]

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Retail Asia04/05/2022

Starting June 3rd, Facebook will cease to offer support for podcasts on its platform. As soon as this week, users will no longer be able to upload new content, while Soundbites and the central audio hub will be fully discontinued shortly afterwards. As Bloomberg reports, this decision has come to light through a note Facebook […]

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Retail Asia29/04/2022

On April 27th, Meta released its first quarterly financial report for 2022. With it, the company manages to defy the gloomy expectations of consumers and investors alike. The key takeaway – more users, more revenue, less growth. One figure particularly stands out – 2.94 billion – the number of users that log into Facebook on […]

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Retail Asia28/04/2022

For years, the community’s main gripe with Facebook has been that it collects a lot of personal data, which it later sells to advertisers. And now, a leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard warns that the social media platform has no idea where all of its acquired user data is going or what it is being used for. […]

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Retail Asia14/04/2022

As many of you probably know, Facebook was a loud critic of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature upon its announcement and release, and that has, surprise, surprise, a reason. In 2021, Facebook lost some money due to those privacy features, and the social media giant might lose an estimated $12.8 billion just because of ATT. […]

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Retail Asia07/04/2022

In another attempt to rival TikTok, Facebook now offers a new feature called “Sharing to Reels.” Sharing to Reels will allow creators to post directly to Facebook Reels from a third-party app. From now on, third-party app developers will be able to integrate “Sharing to Reels” directly into their apps, enabling users to post their Reels directly […]

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Retail Asia25/03/2022

Recently, Facebook has been struggling with its market share as it predicted a $10 billion loss in revenue due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency. However, the company might be starting to recover its ad revenue. For those of you who don’t know, with iOS 14.5, Apple introduced a feature dubbed App Tracking Transparency (ATT), which allowed […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2022

At the beginning of this month, some Facebook users received an email from the company to enable Facebook Protect for their accounts. However, many people seem to have ignored the email, as some generally thought it was just spam, in failing to activate Facebook Protect, some people are now locked out of their accounts.As you […]

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Retail Asia10/03/2022

Meta’s Facebook announced that it has taken another step in trying to prevent misinformation from spreading by launching a new set of tools for group admins. These new features are not only meant to identify false information, but they will also help reduce admin workload and, ultimately, make them more efficient while they manage their groups. The […]

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