In a sort of anti-climax, Facebook India has announced the scrapping of the controversial Free Basics project in the country in wake of the decision by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) ...

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 ...

Social networking giant Facebook has renamed its controversial Internet.org app as Free Basics by Facebook. The company says it's making the change "to better distinguish the Internet.org initiative ...

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 ...