Meanwhile, Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is in hot water after some offensive comments about India. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make ...

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 ...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today ruled that 'Free Basics' violates net neutrality. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better ...

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 ...

A report released today by activist group Global Voices found that not only does Facebook’s Free Basics violate net neutrality principles, it’s not even very helpful to those who use it. Free Basics, ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it's changing the name of its controversial Internet.org app and mobile website to Free Basics by Facebook. The rebranding will help consumers better distinguish between ...

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 ...

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, ...