Everyone knows about the origin of Facebook as the social media website born out of a dorm room. We've all seen the movie, read the book and relived Facebook's invention in countless articles on the ...

Old school word-of-mouth marketing occurred when happy customers referred others to a business over coffee or a beer. Today, consumers praise and pan businesses in front of thousands of people (albeit ...

This week, Facebook released Discover, the latest take on its Free Basics “web for all” work. Available in Peru, Discover is a mobile web and Android app that provides users with a daily balance of ...

Facebook is considering whether to launch a mobile application in the United States that would provide free access to a selection of websites, according to a Washington Post report today. Facebook has ...

As recently as last week, Facebook was touting the growth of Free Basics, its Internet.org project designed to give users free curated web access in developing countries, but the app isn’t working out ...

Free Basics fails to meet the linguistic needs of target users in the region, writes Wanjohi and Yeboah [Getty] Facebook claims to be bridging this gap by providing mobile phone users in developing ...

Land grab! Net neutrality! Imperialism! There was a lot of justified outrage (and perhaps delight) when Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of bringing the Internet to rural Indians came crashing down recently, ...

Facebook's Free Basics service has been criticised by net neutrality campaigners A Facebook scheme to provide free internet access to people in developing nations has been suspended in Egypt. The ...