Facebook’s announcement last week that it is rebranding its Internet.org initiative—a bundle of free Internet services that has been rolled out, step by step, in developing countries over the last ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a boost to net neutrality, Facebook has decided to shut down its controversial ‘Free Basics’ programme in India, following telecom regulator Trai’s move to bar operators from charging different ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about business in India, especially the new economy. A ferocious resistance has built up in India to Facebook's ballyhooed ...

For Zuckerberg, philanthropy comes with a helping of criticism. On the personal side, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, appeared to be blindsided as initial admiration for their decision to ...

Facebook’s Free Basics app aimed at providing free online services in developing countries is not what it claims to be. Njeri Wangari Wanjohi is a Kenyan writer and poet. Kofi Yeboah is a Ghanaian ...

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 ...

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, ...