Alex Heath

There are 2.76 billion daily users across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

“Apple’s policy to ‘allow’ cloud games on the App Store doesn’t allow for much at all.”

It added 55 million daily users last quarter.

Vertebrae’s 50-person team will keep developing the platform.

Fleets is expiring

On iOS, Apple Calculator is bigger than YouTube.

“We’re building Facebook groups and events for the generation that doesn’t use Facebook.”

A way for Facebook to get around Apple and Google.

There could be global ramifications for elected officials.

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Snap’s largest deal ever.

The firm said it is projecting double-digit growth this year in business transformation and employee experience.

These are the most senior people at Facebook, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s direct reports. They are responsible for running high-profile parts of the company such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself, along with advertising, AR/VR, technical infrastructure and other functions.

Facebook on Monday told employees to avoid wearing or carrying company-branded clothing and other items in public following the company’s suspension last week of President Donald Trump’s account and its more recent crackdown on content mentioning “Stop the Steal,” an online movement that falsely ...

Facebook is expanding its permanent work from home policy, moving it closer to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prediction that half hisworkforce will be working remotely within a decade. The company, which has more than 52,000 full-time employees, in recent weeks has started allowing a significant portion ...

A week ago, I spent a Friday evening quite nervous that our second The Information WTF conference—virtual, of course—would fall flat. Yes, we had a great lineup. But would our nearly 500 attendees want to stare at their computers for two days straight? How would the interviews go over? Would ...

When YouTube was planning the rollout of its rival to TikTok in India earlier this month, employees turned to a valuable source of market research: how people in the country were using TikTok and its competitors on Android, the mobile operating system controlled by YouTube parent company ...

Facebook fastidiously copied Bitmoji’s artwork for its new avatars feature. Consider a) the access to legal expertise and b) the shameless indifference Facebook has to ethical standards, bad …

In Burlingame, California, a small city about 15 miles north of Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters, a monument to the social media giant’s future ambitions is taking shape. Construction is underway on a 770,000-square-foot new campus, with the capacity for about 4,000 employees, that will be ...

Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV lets you hang out with friends on your home’s biggest screen. It’s a fresh product category that could give the s…