The government has halted the program over concerns that Facebook violates Net neutrality by offering only certain Web content for free. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and ...

Facebook’s free internet service is designed to offer connectivity to disadvantaged countries but a new study is drawing attention to potential Free Basics flaws. Like India claimed when it banned the ...

'Free Basics' initiative, which had triggered a debate on net neutrality in the country, was shut down by Facebook here in February. Facebook should be given a "fair hearing" regarding its 'Free ...

When Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched the first incarnation of Facebook, then known as TheFacebook, from his dorm room in 2004, it was a social network for college students only. Originally, ...