NRI Viveik Patel deserves a special mention. The 26-year old, who started his own fundraiser on Facebook with a target of raising USD500,000, has now managed to super exceed the target and raised USD1,018,252 within just 11 days.
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Facebook acquires shopping startup GrokStyle launched by Indian origin woman
In an attempt to enable users shop better using Artificial Intelligence, Facebook has acquired a startup founded by an Indian-origin woman, GrokStyle, for an undisclosed amount.
Temporary outage of Facebook, Instagram feeds across the world
Millions of Facebook and Instagram users spread across the world were unable to access their feeds for a short period yesterday night including Singapore and India.
Facebook and IMDA jointly launch start-up programme
Startup Station Singapore is a six-months programme, and aims to take in between eight and 12 start-ups in the pioneer batch.
Facebook to open first Asian data centre in Singapore with investment of SGD1.4 billion
Facebook will open its first data centre in Asia in Singapore with an investment worth SGD1.4 billion. It will also open avenues for hundreds of jobs for Singaporeans. The data centre is expected to start its operation in 2022.
NRI banker loses his job over controversial ripped flag Facebook post
Even, as the 11th India-Singapore Strategic Dialogue kicked off today in the Lion City, the controversy over an NRI’s Facebook post showing the Singapore flag on a T-shirt being ripped up to reveal the Indian flag underneath refused to die down.
Indian-origin director of Google AR will lead Facebook’s AR platform
Indian-origin Director of Product for Augmented Reality (AR) at Google Nikhil Chandhok has joined Facebook to lead product management of its camera team working on AR.
India becomes largest audience country for Facebook: Report
Facebook users in India have crossed the 240 million mark, making it the largest audience country for the social media giant, according to a media report.
Actor Shrey Bhargava questioned by police over casual racism FB post, on being asked to be
Singapore news: Netizens were on Shrey Bhargava’s side for calling out “casual racism” in Singapore, others have slammed him for making a huge fuss of things.
Facebook research: Women entrepreneurs can boost Singapore economy
A new research by Facebook has found that Singapore is missing out on a potential boost to the economy by not addressing the challenges facing women who want to start a business.
