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 ...

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’s Free Basics, the app that lets users access certain Internet services (like Facebook) for free in emerging markets, has been temporarily banned in India, according to The Times of India.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...