Facebook holding events to boost small businesses

Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015, 19:06

Facebook India on Monday said it is organising a Small Business Boost (SBB) programme designed to arm Indian businesses with the knowledge, skills and technology required to stay innovative and connect with the customers both at home and abroad.

Facebook increases investments in Indian small businesses

Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015, 15:37

There are 1.49 billion people on Facebook, which is half of the estimated three billion people who use the Internet worldwide, Head of Economic Growth Initiatives for Facebook India", Ritesh Mehta said.

Facebook to scale up free mobile Internet service to boost usage

Last Updated: Monday, July 27, 2015, 14:24

Facebook Inc plans to scale up its service to offer free basic Internet on mobile phones, an executive said, after introducing the application in 17 developing countries over the past year.

Facebook to scale up free mobile Internet service to boost usage

Last Updated: Monday, July 27, 2015, 14:24

Facebook Inc plans to scale up its service to offer free basic Internet on mobile phones, an executive said, after introducing the application in 17 developing countries over the past year.

Facebook users in India up 5% at 82 million in Apr-June

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 17:15

The number of monthly active users of Facebook in India has shot up by 5 percent to 82 million for April-June period of this year.

India, Brazil & mobile users lift Facebook count to 1.15 billion

Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2013, 14:02

Buoyed by surging user base in the emerging markets of India and Brazil, social networking giant Facebook has said its monthly active users (MAUs) rose by 21 per cent to 1.15 billion as of June 30, 2013.

India, Brazil help Facebook expand user base to 1.11 bn

Last Updated: Monday, May 6, 2013, 16:17

The ubiquitous social networking platform's MAUs rose by 23 percent in January-March quarter of 2013 compared to the year-ago period.

Social media fails to bridge the gender divide in India

Last Updated: Monday, March 11, 2013, 00:27

Women users of Facebook in India is among the lowest in the world.

Facebook forced to drop flawed special New Year feature

Last Updated: Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:44

The popular website had last week launched its Midnight Message Delivery feature to allow users to send New Year's messages to friends that automatically arrive on the stroke of midnight tonight.

Facebook user base climbs to 50 mn in India

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 18:08

Most of the people in the US started on desktop and moved to mobile, she said, adding that India is causing the company to rethink its model.

Suit against websites: No relief to Facebook India

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 18:07

Facebook India's plea for dropping its name from a suit for action against social networking websites for hosting alleged objectionable content was on Wednesday dismissed by a Delhi court which held it cannot be said that the company has no say in running the site facebook.com.

Facebook users in India have doubled in last one year

Last Updated: Friday, February 3, 2012, 17:57

Popular social networking site Facebook finds India a major growth market, where the number of users have more than doubled in the past one year, as against near-zero penetration in the neighbouring China.