SAN FRANCISCO — Indian regulators have blocked Free Basics, a controversial Facebook service championed by chief executive Mark Zuckerberg that gave people free but limited access to the ...

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 ...

Zuckerberg’s lighting public relations blitz contrasted sharply with Facebook’s under-the-radar expansion in Africa, which is built around a no-frills internet app called Free Basics.

India's telecoms regulator ruled Monday that service providers must charge the same price for all content, dealing a crushing blow to "Free Basics," a Facebook initiative that had come under ...

Crucially, Facebook’s Free Basics service, which gives people free access to a limited set of services through special partnerships with local mobile carriers, is now effectively dead in India.

Facebook's campaign to offer free Internet access to hundreds of millions of people in India is at risk of backfiring. The company urged its users to express their support for the stripped-down ...

He's the author of two tech books--one on Windows and another on LinkedIn. India has blocked Facebook's Free Basics service. The action is the result of a new regulation released by the Telecom ...

A program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians was shut down on Wednesday, social media site Facebook said. By Associated Press A program that had been ...

Facebook's Free Basics service, which offers certain basic internet services to people in developing countries for free, has been shut down in Egypt, just a week after the service was temporarily ...

Facebook might be trying to bring its controversial free internet program to the United States. Mark Zuckerberg and co. are collaborating with government officials and cellphone carriers to ...

NAIROBI — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise visit to Kenya and Nigeria in September saw him eat ugali fish with his hands and crash a Nollywood music video shoot in between whirlwind tours of ...