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Facebook is facing a lawsuit from a group of four plaintiffs who are accusing the social media giant of anti-competitive moves. The complainants are demanding a court order that will force the company to shed some of its weight and sell its assets.The Facebook LawsuitOn Thursday, four tech startups initiated the lawsuit. In the filing, the plaintiffs suggest Facebook’s unlawful moves have built what they describe as a “social data barrier to entry.” This continues to prevent them from being...

Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his vision for 2030, but also a whole bunch of decade-end aims for his social media Goliath, including an extensive “opportunity” for Facebook to “decentralize” finance and business.He wrote in a post:“Over the next decade, we hope to build the commerce and payments tools so that every small business has easy access to the same technology that previously only big companies have had.”As the reader could further see, in this vision are included Instagram...

We all know how it is to forget someone’s birthday, holiday or, god forbid, anniversary. Before we used our little calendars with post-its all around saying: “your first kiss anniversary, he wore a brown jumper, buy beer”, etc. However, since we have Facebook, it was hard to forget, well, almost anything. With its ‘calendar’ and ‘memories’ it reminds us of all the things we’ve done in the past – yes, that includes your drunk uncle puking after New year’s brunch. Its “Year in Review” videos,...

Even though the world of social media is a global affair, all fingers are certainly not equal and like any other consumer market, various platforms fight for dominance among users with some faring better than others. Facebook, in particular, has been a mainstay within the social media market for over a decade and this includes Facebook itself as well as Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp and so on. However, there is a new crop of social media platforms that threaten its dominance and are reaching...

Facebook Pay wird den Online Zahlungsverkehr massiv vereinfachen! Facebooks geplante Kryptowährung Libra läuft keineswegs so, wie sich das Unternehmen dies vorstellte. Unabhängig davon bringt der Branchenprimus in Sachen Social Media nun ein neues digitales Zahlungssystem an den Start: Facebook Pay. Keine Berührungspunkte mit Libra Der neue Zahlungsdienst Facebook Pay, welcher direkt in das soziale Netzwerk, den Nachrichtendienst WhatsApp,...

Social media giant Facebook Inc. has now decided to consolidate all of its payment services under a single umbrella. On Tuesday, November 12, Facebook announced its Facebook Pay platform which would facilitate ” a convenient, secure and consistent payment experience across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp”.Facebook’s announcement comes just in a week’s time after it announced a new parent company logo as part of its rebranding efforts. The social media giant said that a lot of its...

Social media giant Facebook has unveiled its new company logo as part of the rebranding efforts. Facebook says that the new branding strategy is to bring more clarity and align the goals of its different products and services under one parent company.In its official announcement, the company said that over the last 15 years, it has made several major acquisitions like Instagram and WhatsApp. Thus, to bring clarity that these services operate under Facebook, it is isolating the Facebook...

Facebook Libra: Facebook plant die Einführung einer Weltwährung. Der Start erfolgt im Januar 2020. Die von Facebook geplante digitale Währung Libra hat weltweit kontroverse Reaktionen hervorgerufen. Trotz des Aufruhrs, den Libra in den USA und Europa erzeugt hat, behält Facebook den Launch der Kryptowährung jedoch fest im Blick. Während Frankreich noch schwor, Libra in Europa zu blockieren, wurde von anderer Seite bestätigt, dass Libra in...

While Ripple has been selling off its XRP asset holdings worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the cofounder is blazing another trail at his present operation. Jed McCaleb’s Stellar Foundation plans to give away almost $126 million in XLM which notably contrasts Ripple’s selling. Keybase users can now chat with their friends and get paid to do it. The Stellar Development Foundation announced on September 9 a 2 billion XLM airdrop.The airdrop is the biggest in Stellar’s 5-year history. In the...