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No Dialogue Between Libra and the Swiss Despite Facebook Claims

July 17, 2019

In the hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, David Marcus, head of Facebook’s Libra, revealed that the data and privacy protections for its digital currency would come under the purview of t...

Bank of Thailand in Talks with Facebook

July 5, 2019

Financial authorities in Thailand are in contact with Facebook over the social media company’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra. Siritida Panomwan, assistant governor for payment systems policy at the Bank of ...

Israeli Insurer Libra Threatens Facebook with Legal Action

July 2, 2019

An Israeli insurance company is considering taking social media giant Facebook to court over its nascent cryptocurrency, Libra. The insurer, which is also called Libra, is asking Facebook to refrain from usi...

EU Regulators Mull Implications of Facebook Cryptocurrency

June 18, 2019

A few hours after Facebook dropped the secrecy surrounding its in-the-works cryptocurrency, or Libra, European central bankers say they have a broader set of concerns. Although Facebook has signed up financi...

ESL Facebook Streaming Continues For 2019 In Non-Exclusive Deal

February 13, 2019

Facebook and ESL ‘expand’ streaming partnership in 2019 on a non-exclusive basis, following 2018’s problems. In what seems like yet another demonstration about how Facebook is falling out of favour among lar...

Monero Mining Bot Infects Facebook Messenger Chrome Extension

December 29, 2017

Crypto mining scripts and bots that inject themselves into browsers and web apps have become an increasingly common pest on the internet.This kind of malware usurps the CPU of unwitting users, turning their c...

Zynga Takes First Real-Money Poker App To Facebook

January 15, 2014

Social gaming company Zynga has launched its Zynga Plus Poker product on social networking website Facebook, according to the Pokernews.com website. The product, which is currently only available to Facebook...

Paddy Power Reveals Timeframe For Broad Facebook Launch

September 2, 2013

Paddy Power and Facebook are planning to launch live cash betting on the social networking website by the end of October, according to the Irish bookmaker’s Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Kennedy. Kennedy ...

Flying Start For Aristocrat’s Facebook App

July 31, 2013

Land-based and online gaming technology supplier Aristocrat has announced that Heart of Vegas, its first Facebook application since acquiring social casino publisher Product Madness late last year, has alre...

Paddy Power To Debut Facebook Real-Money Sportsbetting

July 10, 2013

Irish bookmaker Paddy Power is to become the first company to trial real-money sportsbetting on social networking website Facebook. Paddy Power In-Play, an in-house developed product, is being trialled as ...