Indian law enforcement agencies requested Facebook to block content in 4,765 instances citing local laws between July and December last year, the largest by any country. The social networking giant said it
How frequently do you Tweet? You could well be one of the millions of ‘silent users’ who seldom tweet, a study says. Almost half of Twitter’s 974 million active users have
Fed-up with the massive rigging that took place in previous elections, Afghan voters have been using social media to highlight alleged fraud, and officials are starting to take notice. Smartphone videos of
Cuba plans to launch its own social media networks to counter “subversive” ones such as a Twitter-like app the United States was funding, an official said Wednesday. Last week, the White House acknowledged
Scientists have developed a computer algorithm that predicts whether a photo will go viral on Facebook by watching how fast it is shared. Stanford researchers said the clues to predicting which of
India, which accounts for over 93 million Facebook users, reported the largest number of bugs under the social networking giant’s bug bounty programme last year. The California-headquartered firm said it received a
Twitter Inc plans to release a mobile-advertising product in the next few weeks that will allow app-makers to encourage downloads of their software, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter. The
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denounced as “villainous” the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing site YouTube. Turkish authorities
Facebook’s latest multibillion dollar acquisition of virtual reality headset maker Oculus is prompting some people to wonder if CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already living in an alternate reality. Longtime technology analyst Roger
Twitter on Wednesday added Facebook-style photo “tagging” and bumped up the number of images that iPhone users can share in a single post. As many as 10 people in a single image
A California federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit against Facebook Inc that had accused the company of misappropriating the names and likenesses of minors who use the social network.
Facebook on Thursday began weaving video ads into people’s news feeds at the leading online social network in a move to grab revenue from the lucrative television market. Premium Video Ads that