Tech Desk : dhakamirror.com On Wednesday, netizens experienced difficulty accessing various apps and platforms due to outages at several prominent ones. Alphabet Inc’s YouTube was unavailable to certain users, as were Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitter. Outage tracking website Downdetector showed that at the peak of the YouTube outage, more than 60,000 ... Read more
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp come back online after massive outage
Facebook on Monday began restoring access to its platform as well as to Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger after a global outage lasting about six hours (Error-reporting website Downdetector recorded an outage for about six hours) shut out many of its 2.7 billion global users, idled some of the company’s employees and prompted a public apology from ... Read more
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp down in major outage
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp users worldwide reported being unable to access apps and websites belonging to the services on Monday evening. Error reporting Downdetector showed the services stopped working shortly before 8pm, with over 20,000 reports of issues with Facebook and
FB pays Tk 2.27cr in VAT for July in Bangladesh
Facebook filed value-added tax worth Tk 2.27 crore against its business in the month of July in Bangladesh on Tuesday. For July, Facebook Ireland Limited paid Tk 2,64,91,643, Facebook Payments International Limited Tk 16,785 and Facebook Technologies Ireland Limited paid Tk 2,294 in VAT. Earlier in June, Facebook was the first non-resident organisation to file VAT returns
Few still look for Eid cards
Only a few people are now seen to look for Eid greeting cards in the gift shops as modern means like facebook, twitter and cell phone have elbowed out the cards used for sharing joy with friends, family members and others. Yet those, who still want to swim against the tide and tend to stick ... Read more
New Missouri Law Bans Student-Teacher Facebook Friendships
Can you really ban students and teachers from being Facebook friends? We’ll soon find out in Missouri. According to Missouri Senate Bill 54, which goes into effect on August 28, any social networking – including, but not limited to, Facebook – between teachers and students is prohibited. It’s all part of an effort to “more ... Read more
Facebook, Twitter & generation obsessed
Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes, reports Daily Mail. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at ... Read more
Facebook elbows past Microsoft in UK
More visitors than everyone except Google Facebook has overtaken Microsoft as the UK’s second most popular web site behind Google, according to figures revealed on Monday by online measurement body UKOM/Nielsen. The social networking site recorded 26.8 million visits last month from people in the UK, many of them over the age of 50