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In an effort to increase the number of women and other underrepresented groups in the computer science field, Facebook will be investing $15 million over the next five years to Code.org to enable the nonprofit to train teachers to teach computer science in urban public school districts and to expand learning opportunities for students. Facebook released a report on the diversity of its own employees, admitting the company has a long way to go before it has a diverse employee base, particularly for its technical departments and senior leadership. Only 17 percent...

Former Adobe South Asia MD Umang Bedi has joined Facebook India as a managing director. Bedi will lead in building and maintaining strategic relationships with top clients and regional agencies in the country. He will take over from Kirthiga Reddy, who will be returning to United States to take on a new role at the company’s headquarters at Menlo Park. Bedi comes to Facebook with close to two decades of leadership experience covering sales, marketing and partnerships where he successfully built teams and grew businesses for multinational companies. Prior to...

The company records your conversations whenever you leave your smartphone nearby with the Facebook application running in the background. Facebook claims that the process is not for pushing targeted advertisements, but to facilitate the users in posting stuff related to the content which they might be consuming. For instance, the background noise from a television show or a movie. Some users have also claimed that they have been flooded with advertisements which aligned with the conversations, they recently indulged in, reflecting a possibility of Facebook utilizing your conversations for commercial...