Here s what s going on in tech.
Facebook India s managing director resigns after six years. The move comes after a drama-filled week involving Facebook and India, brought about by board member Marc Andreessen s colonialism-tinged defense of Free Basics — which sparked ire on the Twittersphere and sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg scrambling to distance himself from the other Marc.
Google — which has said it won t be making its own self-driving cars — posts openings for manufacturing jobs.
Internal investigation finds Zenefits created software to help health insurance brokers cheat on licensing process; California now investigating.
U.K. court rules Google didn t abuse its dominance in maps.
Paris court rules that Facebook can be sued under French law over its taking down of a photo of a nude painting, although Facebook s terms of service say its users can only sue in California.
More jurisprudence: Judge s decision could help James Woods unmask a Twitter user who tweeted that the actor was a cocaine addict. Woods is suing for $10 million for defamation.
More fuel for the rumor that Apple will be unveiling a new Watch in March: Current Apple Watches are now $100 off at Target and elsewhere.
Netflix completes shift of its whole streaming operation to the cloud — Amazon s AWS, that is.
Research (that s awaiting peer review) finds computer code written by women has a higher approval rating — when their gender is not known.
Visa, which has a competing product, is hanging on to its shares of Square.
Indonesia asking Facebook, WhatsApp to block gay emojis.
AT&T says it ll conduct 5G wireless trials by the end of the year.
Photo: A visitor looks at Gustave Courbet s 1866 The Origin of the World painting at Musee d Orsay in Paris, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016. Facebook lost a crucial legal battle Friday as a Paris court ruled the social network can be sued in France over its decision to remove the account of a French user who posted a photo of Courbet s famous 19th-century nude painting. (Francois Mori/Associated Press)
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