Facebook is due to reports its first quarterly earnings since it became a public company.
Shares are down 25% since the company's $100 billion market listing in May.
With limited historical data available for the social network, the numbers are hard to predict.
But nerves were seriously rattled late on Wednesday when Zynga, which publishes games on Facebook, badly missed Wall Street estimates and slashed its forecasts for the year ahead.
Michelle Fleury reports from New York.
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Yet another journalist has come out against the seemingly unprecedented secrecy of the Obama administration.
USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page said at a White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) event on Saturday that the current administration is more threatening to press freedom than "any administration in American history." Page said she was "really worried" about what could happen if the White House continues to prevent reporters from doing their job of telling the news and telling the truth.
“This administration has been more restrictive and more challenging to the press, more dangerous to the press, really, than any administration in American history,” Page said. “I think access to the White House has just gotten worse and worse.”
In January, former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson called the Obama administration "the most secretive White House" she has ever encountered as a journalist. Associated Press Washington chief of bureau Sally Buzbee also chimed inon White House transparency in September, citing daily "intimidation" tactics and firmly stating that the current administration is "significantly worse than previous administrations."
The famous media lawyer James C. Goodale, who represented the New York Times through the Pentagon Papers case, condemned Obama for criminalizing whistleblowers and reporters who use them as sources, boldly stating that "Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom."
Journalist and co-founder of the Intercept Glenn Greenwald noted these recurring claims Tuesday morning:
Kampala. President Paul Kagame has called for an end to the tension between Uganda and Rwanda that led to closure of Rwanda border on February 28.
Mr Kagame, who was addressing the Africa CEO Forum 2019 in Kigali on Tuesday, said on the official presidential Twitter handle Presidency/Rwanda @Urigwiro Village that Uganda and Rwanda can avoid “quarrels” that might hurt both countries.
“To say the least, if we can’t work together as brothers, sisters, friends, we can decide to give each other peace and forget what we have to do together but above all avoid quarrels that will be destructive because no one will win from any serious quarrel,” he told the summit.
His reconciliatory tweet is seen as a change from his earlier hardline position when told Rwanda’s local and central government officials on March 16 during a retreat at Rwanda Defence Forces Combat Training Centre, Gabiro in Gatsibo District that no one can bring him to his knees.
However, Mr Olivier Nduhungirehe, Rwanda’s minister in charge of East African Community Affairs, yesterday told Daily Monitor that Mr Kagame has not softened.
“The President has been clear right from the start and as government, we have given three options. The first option is that we want to work towards normalisation of the relations for economic cooperation. We have said this before. The second option is that if the first option is not possible, we should ignore each other. But that’s not our preferred option. The third option, which is the worst is that if Uganda wants do harm to us, and continues to support our enemies, Rwanda is ready to defend itself,” Mr Nduhungirehe said.
Uganda’s Regional Cooperation Minister Philemon Mateke yesterday said that “there are no quarrels” between both countries.
In a separate interview, Col Shaban Bantariza, the Uganda Media Centre deputy executive director, last evening said: “That is a positive statement and that has been the policy that nobody benefits from such a situation.”
Rwanda closed the border with Uganda and all the Ugandan cargo trucks have been blocked from entering Rwanda over allegations that Uganda is harassing and arresting Rwandans, an allegation Uganda has denied.
During the same forum, which was also attended by DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, Mr Kagame also said it was only the people or Rwanda who can remove him from power.
“Whether you like me or not, President Kagame is here as President of Rwanda, it is the business of the people of Rwanda. If they want Kagame, they will have him and if they don’t they will remove him,” he said.
Rwanda also claims that Uganda harbours the Rwanda National Congress dissidents to undermine the Kigali government.
President Tshisekedi said leaders should not conflict because it’s a waste of time.
“Our countries will be neighbours forever, as leaders, we are here temporarily but our countries will always be there. Conflict with each other is a waste of time, time that could be used to build our countries,” he said.
Credit: The Daily Monitor